Why don't they thin they're own damn herd?
Posted on 04/16/2006 2:51:47 PM PDT by Clive
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. (CP) - Another anti-sealing group that has been observing the controversial East Coast hunt has pulled out of Atlantic Canada.
Activists with the Humane Society of the United States left the region on Sunday after weeks of documenting the kill in between sometimes-violent confrontations with local residents and hunt supporters.
Spokeswoman Rebecca Aldworth said a day earlier that her group would stay until the hunt had finished.
About 200 small sealing boats remain on the ice. But Aldworth said now that larger vessels have filled their quotas and ended their hunt, the group had seen everything they needed.
"Our ability to document happens during the larger vessel quota and that has been closed," Aldworth said from St. John's. "It's now a very slow part of the hunt."
The hunt on a vast area known as the Front began last Wednesday with a quota of 230,000 seals. Larger vessels reached their quota and were called off on Friday.
Protesters with the International Fund for Animal Welfare left the hunt on Friday, complaining that angry residents on the Labrador community of Cartwright threatened to stop them from refuelling their helicopter.
Aldworth's group had a similar experience in Cartwright on Wednesday, but she said that didn't affect the timing of the observers' departure.
She plans on pursuing legal action against hunt supporters in Cartwright and in the eastern Quebec community of Blanc-Sablon, where about 80 residents surrounded a small hotel Thursday where activists were staying.
Aldworth claimed residents rammed a van carrying activists, and complained that police were too slow to offer an escort away from the hotel.
The humane society also plans on taking the federal Fisheries Department to court for denying Aldworth and other activists observer permits during the hunt on the Front.
Aldworth and several others were arrested during the Gulf of St. Lawrence hunt last month for violating their observer permits, which require them to stay 10 metres from sealers.
None of the activists have been charged, but federal Fisheries Minister Loyola Hearn said anyone under investigation would be denied observer permits.
"The ability to document this hunt is a constitutional right," said Aldworth.
A spokesman with the federal Fisheries Department was unavailable on Sunday.
Aldworth said her group will now review video footage from the hunt and report any violations of hunting regulations to the federal Fisheries Department.
fortiori for the American Humane Association is not a Canadian organization.
Is this organization funded in any manner, either by grants or by tax relief, by the US taxpayer?
If so, does the funding, actual or implied, extend to money spent for the purpose of interfering with a lawful activity in a foreign country?
Why don't they thin they're own damn herd?
This is a personal favorite. Doing this for the children. So that they will not have to club the baby seals.
If the left wing wackos managed to stop the helicopter supporting the hunt, they'd be having orgasms.
Liberal hypocrites.
If left unhunted many of the seals will become shark poop within six months.
Clubbing these animals to death in the way they do is disgusting. I don't see anything wrong with culling the herd, just find a humane way to do it. PETA goes too far. Fat drug addict Rush Limbaugh goes too far. There is nothing left wing wacko about being an animal lover, nothing left wing wacko about being humane. Don't even think about bringing abortion into this.
What puzzles me is why the culling is not done with rifles. In Australia, European settlement and the establishment of pastures has meant that roos have been able to increase at a much faster rate then prior to European settlement. Therefore, roos have to be culled. However, the rules require that the culling is done with a single rifle shot to the head and death is instant.
Yet the anti seal hunt people still raise the picture of cute little white coated baby seal pups being clubbed.
BTW, clubbing is more efficient and more likely to guarantee a quick instant kill.
The seal population has increased throughout this hysterical attack on the hunt and the cod population on the Grand Banks has crashed.
Thanks for that. I did not think the cull would be going on without good reason.
This is my personal favorite, depriving the children of pets because too much money is spent on advertising and staff salaries.
The problem is that not enough of them would become shark poop. Seals have fewer natural predators, which is why they over populate the area and wreck herring and cod stocks.Man is doing what orcas, polar bears and sharks have done in the past.
You would probably find many things about hunting that are disgusting
Clubbing seal pups has been done on the Newfoundland Seal hunt for more than 200 years. The reason why is simply to preserve the pelt from having an extra hole so that it will bring the best price. I have been on a seal hunt just North of Fogo Island, Newfoundland in the late 70's. The animals do not suffer and are killed instantly with the club.
Also hunting seals on the ice is extremely dangerous, especially if the weather changes , fog rolls in or a swell comes in breaking up the ice pans. When a swiler ( sealer) is up to 2 miles from his boat, he can be lost, not able to get back to his boat safely. Its risky business. Also swilers can run into polar bears on the ice, although this happens less frequently these days.
God bless the Newfoundlanders who do this work. Its hard honest work and it is not barbaric as many think, succumbing to the left wing nut media campaign . Seal cuteness is not a natural defense to any but liberals, who do not have an inkling what it is like to spend one's life wresting a living from the sea. These same men kill cute fish and lobsters by the ton, and send it on to your dinner tables.
The mothers of these pups usually do not stay to defend them, but slip away from approaching hunters down their ice holes, abandoning them.
> It's hard honest work and it is not barbaric as many think, succumbing to the left wing nut media campaign.
Hard honest work. Have a ball bashing their heads in, old boy.
Who told you that cruelty to animals was a left wing nut media campaign? Fat drug addict Rush Limbaugh?
Of couse,like you, I need someone to tell me everything I know.
Jesting aside:
I have been there and done it. There is no cruelty and the Newfoundlanders who do the clubbing are some of the kindest and gentlest people I have ever met. Living and working under risky , hard conditions as fishermen tends to wear the harsh, unkind edges off a man.
Go on up to Newfoundland and drive up the Bay D'Espere Highway, take the ferry to Fogo Island and meet some of the people there. Then you will have a much better perspective.
Fogo is a beautiful place in the summer:
http://www.fogoisland.net
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