[areafiftyone]

Its a slaughter. Those seals cannot escape. I'm sorry but when hunters hunt their prey their prey has a 50/50 chance of escaping or at least trying to. These baby seals cannot even move hardly. That's slaughter in my book.

[-YYZ-]

"Its a slaughter. Those seals cannot escape. I'm sorry but when hunters hunt their prey their prey has a 50/50 chance of escaping or at least trying to. These baby seals cannot even move hardly. That's slaughter in my book."

And...? So...? What's your point? Slaughter, hunt, whatever - it's not like they're doing this for fun (as opposed to say shooting deer, lured by corn and apples, from a stand in a tree). It's just an industry, and the only good argument against it that I would pay any attention to is if it is unsustainable. Other than that it's no more brutal or cruel than what goes on in countless slaughterhouses every day.

[starfish923]

Its a slaughter. Those seals cannot escape. I'm sorry but when hunters hunt their prey their prey has a 50/50 chance of escaping or at least trying to. These baby seals cannot even move hardly. That's slaughter in my book.

So it is. Why aren't you so profoundly moved with the SLAUGHTER of cows, pigs, sheep, chickens, turkeys, farmed fish, dolphin, shellfish, silkworms, whales....and such?

If SLAUGHTER is so awful, then you OUGHT to be outraged beyond these particular slaughtered animals, which just happen to be baby seals.

Doesn't make sense unless the only reason you are so moved is because the baby seals are so cute.
ALL "slaughtered" animals are helpless. VEAL and LAMB are babies when THEY are "slaughtered" too. No creature is a match against man....in the end.

I guess it just because the OTHER slaughtered animals aren't so public....not in your face, like the advocates for THIS particular creature.
Fuzzy sentiment.

[starfish923]

Starfish923 wrote: If they were not so cute or so young, no one would care.
Which is why the activists continue to lie about what really goes on. The practice of taking seal pups was banned in the 1980s so only ADULT seals are harvested. That hasn't stopped Greenpeace from using photos of the cute little baby seals, though.
35 posted on 03/24/2006 11:07:13 AM PST by Squawk 8888 (We Acadiens have nothing to do with Québec)

Thanks, Squawk, for you input.

To areafiftyone: So, are you STILL outraged now that you know they are merely adult seals that are slaughtered? Or do you still hold that somehow slaughtered seals are more precious than the other slaughtered animals of this world?