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Canada says annual seal hunt to start Saturday
CNN ^
| March 24, 2006
| Reuters
Posted on 03/24/2006 8:19:15 AM PST by Past Your Eyes
Canada's annual seal hunt, the focus of a major protest effort by animal activists, will start on Saturday and could last longer than usual because the ice floes on which the seals gather are in poor condition, officials said on Thursday.
Canada says a total of 325,000 harp seal pups can be shot or clubbed to death this year. The first stage of the hunt, which takes place on ice in the Gulf of St. Lawrence on Canada's East Coast, will account for just over 90,000 animals.
Activists, who say the killing is cruel and unnecessary, say they will film the proceedings. The hunt officially starts at 6 a.m. on Saturday.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Canada; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: beatle; canada; club; harp; hunting; ice; mccartney; newfoundland; protest; seals; slaughter
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This should be more fun than a movie about queer cowboys.
To: Past Your Eyes
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posted on
03/24/2006 8:23:05 AM PST
by
Seeking the truth
(0cents.com - Freep Stuff & Pajama Patrol Stuff)
To: Past Your Eyes
Damn, we needs to form car pools now. Amd this time we bring Tupperware -- no more trying to get 'our winnings' back trough the border in a paper sack. Tupperware to seal your seal!
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posted on
03/24/2006 8:24:42 AM PST
by
pikachu
(Chuck Norris prefers cats to dogs. This is because cats fit better in his George Forman grill.)
To: Past Your Eyes
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posted on
03/24/2006 8:26:48 AM PST
by
MarMema
(Buy Danish, support freedom)
To: Past Your Eyes
Canada says annual seal
hunt slaughter to start Saturday
Sorry but this is NOT A HUNT - it's a SLAUGHTER!
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posted on
03/24/2006 8:28:08 AM PST
by
areafiftyone
(Politicians Are Like Diapers, Both Need To Be Changed Often And For The Same Reason!)
To: areafiftyone
Sorry but this is NOT A HUNT - it's a SLAUGHTER!You can have slaughter without having laughter!
What do you expect froma country where the national sport is wearing sharp skates on ice and pretending to hit at a rubber puck while swinging sticks at each other. Them Canucks are vicious -- as proof look what they have given the US -> Ann Murray, Paul Schaffer, Mike Myers and Martin Short -- you can't claim they have not had a nasty effect on this country!
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posted on
03/24/2006 8:33:08 AM PST
by
pikachu
(Chuck Norris prefers cats to dogs. This is because cats fit better in his George Forman grill.)
To: Past Your Eyes
So, where, oh where, are all those Canadian liberals, animal activists, PETA-folks and greenies?
Why is this STILL going on?
It's been going on for a few hundred years....NOT stopped by the wild-eyed seal lovers.
They have SUCH voice in the media and legislature. Why haven't they STOPPED this by now?
What's holding them up?
< sarcasm >
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posted on
03/24/2006 8:33:37 AM PST
by
starfish923
(Socrates: It's never right to do wrong.)
To: Past Your Eyes
I remember that I used to love the feel of my Momma's seal skin coat.
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posted on
03/24/2006 8:34:46 AM PST
by
Roccus
To: MarMema
I think it is sad.
Don't get all blubbery
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posted on
03/24/2006 8:34:58 AM PST
by
HEY4QDEMS
(Remember 9/11. The left have already forgotten.)
To: Past Your Eyes
I'll just say I'm glad they haven't caved in to the tree-worshippers, bunny-huggers, and bambiists ... 'nuff said.
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posted on
03/24/2006 8:36:38 AM PST
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: Past Your Eyes
To: pikachu
To say nothing of Peter Jennings.
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posted on
03/24/2006 8:42:11 AM PST
by
Past Your Eyes
(Ignorance is contageous and has lots of friends while wisdom is often a lonely fellow.)
To: areafiftyone
Sorry but this is NOT A HUNT - it's a SLAUGHTER!It's really only a SLAUGHTER because they are cute little seal cubs. If they were not so cute or so young, no one would care.
Fish, dolphin, shellfish, cattle, chickens, lambs, mink, chinchilla, snakes, silkworms, whales, whatever, are SLAUGHTERED every minute of every day and there is no outcry of "SLAUGHTER!!!"
Sorry, but the over-reaction to THESE particular creatures of God makes so little sense in the larger vision of all the thousands-of-years, planet-wide, unrelenting, consistent slaughtering of live creatures for food and clothing. God made us meat-eaters, especially those in cold climates where vegetarianism is only a dream.
Hindus are the ONLY culture in God's existence that are vegetarians. And not all Hindus are vegetarians. And they are so NOT because of any altruism towards animals. They mistreat their animals with impunity....they just don't EAT them.
This isn't directed just at you either, sir, and it's no condemnation of you or your ideas. It's also directed at those who would mourn ONE group of slaughtered creatures, while NOT all groups. I just happen to think that the sentiment is misdirected.
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posted on
03/24/2006 8:46:26 AM PST
by
starfish923
(Socrates: It's never right to do wrong.)
To: MarMema
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posted on
03/24/2006 8:46:45 AM PST
by
italianquaker
(Democrats and media can't win elections at least they can win their phony polls.)
To: HEY4QDEMS
I think it is sad.
Don't get all blubberyHarhar.
Got me!
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posted on
03/24/2006 8:48:33 AM PST
by
starfish923
(Socrates: It's never right to do wrong.)
To: starfish923
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posted on
03/24/2006 8:49:02 AM PST
by
Past Your Eyes
(Ignorance is contageous and has lots of friends while wisdom is often a lonely fellow.)
To: Past Your Eyes
I won't go there. I don't need any eye-screw up, thank you. I just had cataract surgery last fall.
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posted on
03/24/2006 8:50:51 AM PST
by
starfish923
(Socrates: It's never right to do wrong.)
To: Past Your Eyes
Don't kid yourselves people, those cute lil seal cubs can bite the living crap out of you if you get too close, as reported in 'Hello Magazine' on Paul and Heather McCartney's recent celebrity trip to Canada:
"...But once they had arrived the two, who were both dressed in bright orange snow suits, wasted no time in getting down on their bellies for an encounter with some newborn Harp Seals...Heather might have been forgiven for expecting a warmer welcome from the furry creatures, though. The first pup she tried to say hello to was obviously unaware of her good intentions, as it tried to bite her hand, forcing her to withdraw it quickly."
http://www.hellomagazine.com/celebrities/2006/03/03/paulmccartney/
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posted on
03/24/2006 8:53:45 AM PST
by
mkjessup
(The Shah doesn't look so bad now, eh? But nooo, Jimmah said the Ayatollah was a 'godly' man.)
Reminds me of the Whacking Day episode of The Simpson's
And nothing is funnier than clubbing baby seals.
To: pikachu
Yeah...but...The canucks have also given us Pamela Anderson, Rachel McAdams, and a whole host of other hotties.
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posted on
03/24/2006 9:00:47 AM PST
by
in hoc signo vinces
("Houston, TX...a waiting quagmire for jihadis. American gals are worth fighting for!")
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