[Eurotwit]

hmm. I wonder if they are tender?


Seriously though. I am no fan of the hunt.

I am just surprised by the enthusiastic outrage it creates.

I just wish some people where as enthusiastic about the war on terror and saving our sivilizaion (not you, obviously) as they are about the seal hunt.

Also the blatant hypocricy of many people who really don't mind animal cruelty when not cute little white seals are involved is odd in my mind.

[areafiftyone]

You see the thing is these baby seals are innocent creatures who don't kill anything except to survive. I am not against hunting and I am not some Ecological nut myself but this is just mass slaughter - no escape. At least in hunting the animal has the chance to run or hide and when a hunter shoots he takes the trophy home either to eat or mount and there isn't a mass slaughter on this scale and most hunters follow the rules and don't kill babies. These babies can hardly move and some big burly neanderthal with a club comes along to smash his/her skull - strip the hide off and leave the rest to rot. This is disgusting and pitiful!