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!
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.
When my eldest son was a toddler he used to watch Sesame Street on PBS in the mornings while I got some chores done. I walk by and see horror on his face and enter the room to see what he is watching on PBS. He was watching the "seal hunt" in living color. Man, that had him worried for days and that was the last time I did chores while he watched television alone.
Msot of the pelts go to the fashion industry. Incomprehensible how this slaughter can go on...since the Canadians just about destroyed the cod through overfishing..they now feel they can do the same to the seals.
How sad.