You know, I'm not against all animal harvest; I like steak and lobster as much as the next guy. And I am quite aware that we as a species are certainly not saints when it comes to our treatment of even those animals we breed for food. But we HAVE to draw a line somewhere. If we can't in such an obvious and self-evident case of brutal cruelty as this, then what does that make us?
Don't believe that crap about "prtecting the fish stocks", either. The seals do not eat anywhere nearly as many as are caught every year. The reason that the fishermen are having lower catches is that THEY overfish their grounds. Now, to make up the difference caused by their OWN overfishing, they're wastefully and brutally killing yet ANOTHER species. Sickening.
I think so too. Whatever number that is cited as being the "tonnage" of fish that each seal will eat is likely to be a gross exaggeration. The "Seal Clubbing" is simply welfare. Welfare that the government of Canada gets a cut of, rather than having to pay out to the poor starving fish goons that crap in their own nest.