[rintense]

I'm sorry, but I disagree with you. Show me documentation- objective documentation- that clubbing seals is humane. If it were so humane, then why do we not do the same to farm animals? Why do we not do the same when euthanizing domestic animals like dogs and cats? You won't find one vet anywhere that would condone such actions and call it humane.

[NathanR]

I am apparently wrong. I thought that cows were stunned by a large hammer before slaughter, but apparently they use something like the "Humane Killer" used by knackers.
The below article goes into it quite well.

http://www.vetcentric.com/magazine/magazineArticle.cfm?ARTICLEID=1511

However, clubbing seals is still more humane than other methods, including shooting them with a rifle. (Since rifles often hit, yet only wound.)