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By M&C News Mar 30, 2008, 16:17 GMT
In photos: 'Canada Seal Hunt'
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Boy someone is playing tricks here. First off hardwood clubs are used to club seal not boat hooks, secondly where did these pictures come from, no activists were in the area of the seal hunt this year and I don't believe any seals were killed yet. Something smells funny here
I think this is cruel and in humane practice for fur trade.
Humamity must respect life in any level. Killing the infant animals
made and act like wild animals.
Photo #6 is exactly the same as photo #12.
I just heard three sealers are dead and one missing from a capsized boat. This is carma at its finest. I'll go toe to toe with any of these red-neck Canadians...
I am SO happy that four men have died, I hope their familes are devistated.
I hope the four men had a grusome, painful slow death. These poor helpless animals are not even dead, they suffer for hours.
I am over the moon, that four men have died and that the fleet lost a boat.
And as for 'we be clubbin' who said; Shocking , fantastic photos i particularly like the one where the other seal is watching the other seal get the club to the head and didnt run.
You are one SICK and vile individual. I hope you have tragic accident, or may one of your family members have a tragic car accident. You are SICK...
But hip hip hooray for the four dead men... Fabulous news
It is karmic retribution that four men lost their lives! They should all meet the same fate. It would still not atone for the millions of baby seals they have killed and, in many instances, skinned alive. By the way, these vicious sealers use whatever they have at hand to club the seals -- from a hakapik to a golf club to their own foot. They particularly enjoy kicking the seal in the face first, as it always elicits a round of laughter from their drunken buddies!
Wow, how compassionate, animal lovers. How do dead humans make dead seals better? Over the moon? Hope their families are devastated? BTW, ignorant ones...there is no i in devastated, there's only one m in humanity. Jerks killing seals, jerks judging seal killers, jerks all around.
~Sigh~ Here we go again. As a dedicated Canadian environmentalist and activit, I have to shake my head every time the seal hunt / global cry fest starts up every spring. As long as this harvest is done sustainably and wisely, which it appears to be, this is at worst as bad as any of a dozen animal killing industries we all live with. At best, it's a far more humane, culturally important, and community-based harvest than most farms offer.
The captions are rediculous as well. As IF these professional hunters lost all of those seals as stated. What a lie. I'm surprised the caption for the scavanging seagull didn't say 'seagull sheds a tear for the cruelty of mankind'.
Why doesn't the animal rights industry just hand over a fraction of the money they raise on this issue every year straight to the hunters to not hunt? Oh yeah... because they'd lose all that sweet, sweet cash.
This is a yearly tragedy, it is one of the most graphic displays of animal cruelty that we have. But, this must be said here... the fact that four humans died is not karma, it is sad. To not have sympathy for people who have been conditioned out of not caring is to miss the whole point.
The four people who died were not bad people. They were people who were not raised to give a darn about the ethics involved in killing of seals. Clubbing wild animals in front of their friends is a horrible thing, so horrible in fact that those doing it are lost souls. If you mock their deaths and wish devastation upon their loved ones, you are no better than they.
May the clubbing of seals stop, and also let their be more understanding of our fellow man.
If all these baby seals were allowed to live, they'd devastate the fisheries and then fishermen's families would suffer.
Did you know that in spite of killing 300,000 seals annually, the seal population has STILL increased three-thousandfold?
So who's more important -- baby seals or baby humans?
Do you know how much the human population of the planet has exploded? Human overpopulation is the number one threat to our planet. People are causing global warming, not seals. So far, Canada has gotten away with mass extermination of harp seals. As long as they get away with it, they will continue their savagery.
I left my name anynomus (never underestimate the mad skillz of angry activists, or perhaps misinformed angry activists misdirected)
First, redneck Canadians. What's up with that extrememly racist remark?
I know getting angry like that can make you say things you don't want to say, but still- REDNECK CANADIANS?!?!
For shame, corey, for shame. :(
I will like to see you go toe to toe with an angry mob of canadians after you tell that to their faces.
Second, i'll bet for every single seal that gets clubbed by those guys another THREE are getting eaten by something, or trapped, or drowned, or whatever.
A seal dies, guys. But life goes on. IT GOES ON!!!!!
(ridiculous, i know. but it seriously does.)
Sure, it's inhumane to club something that's helpless and defenseless
(check the look on the guys face if that seal had a m16, sucker. :P)
But sharks eat seals messily, i bet thats pretty inhumane.
Killer whales sometimes eat seals, thats pretty inhumane too.
Humans sometimes club seals, ???????????????????????????????
Think about it, these kind of 'inhumane' things go on just about
ALL THE FREAKING TIME without humans doing them.
So go on ahead, tell the sharks to stop eating the seals
tell all the whales to stop eating the seals
for a matter of fact, tell all the seals to try to stop dying in unneccisarily violent ways (such as self-arming with the previously mentioned m16)
and then i will be very glad if you could go down and tell all the canadian 'redneck?' (sorry corey, i'm not quite used to this idiotic and redundant use of unneccesary racism yet, apparently your quite good at it. Though im not sure if thats a good thing or not.) hunters to stop killing the seals by clubbing, as that is quite inhumane.
Seriously, you guys are acting if it's a good thing that people are DEAD.
When that happens, you know there have got to be some issues that need to be fixed.
I reccomend these following medical steps:
1.) Cool it. stop forcing yourself to look at these things and making yourself think that going on a rampage in canada is a good idea. can we say VIOLENT?
2.) Go to your doctor, and ask for the latest medicine for anger control. However, i recommend the Chill Pill, free and always avaliable when needed. Treatment includes relaxing, taking a deep breath, and doing some relaxing spiritual activity preffered to regain a calm balance of mind.
3.)Think about what you said, and see if you could change that or make up for it.
I realize these pictures are horrifying. However, how many of us look at these pictures in disgust, then go and eat beef, chicken, fish, pork, etc. How do you think chickens, cows, fish and pigs die? Peacefully? I would read how horrible their deaths are before commenting. If you want to complain, then stop eating any kind of meat or using any kind if animal product. Period.
Here is a quote taken from the OSPCA website about how they kill cows so we can enjoy our hamburgers and steaks...
'Prior to being hung up by their back legs and bled to death, cattle are supposed to be rendered unconscious. This 'stunning' is usually done by a mechanical blow to the head. The procedure is terribly imprecise, and inadequate stunning is inevitable. The result of poor stunning is conscious animals hanging upside down, kicking and struggling...'
this is for elliott.i hope you die a slow painful death with cancer and you have bed sores the size of youre head.do not eat meat because it came from a slaughter house.ps.you better not come to eastern canada you will be shot or clubed and i will make sure you are dead and will slice you'RE THROAT SO YOU WILL NOT SUFFER......
Ralph you hit the nail on the head . any one that would be happy about a human being diying trying to make a living to support thier family and young children they left behind is a very sick person and should be torcherd by HITTLER THIS IS FROM ANY NORMAL PERSON!!!!!!!! These people probably dont mind wearing a 3000 dollar fur coat or leather jacket that shit dont grow on trees but he is probably just a know it all tree hugger GO SEALERS GET YOUR QOUTA FAST AND SAFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
from a fellow east coaster
I am not happy sealers have died, these are fathers, sons, husbands and families have been devastated. However, all this could have been prevented if these people had not been so stubborn trying to defend a way of life that belongs in the past.
I say this as a Canadian, I hope their children learn from this tragedy and go to school and grow up to be productive members of society, instead of destroyers of the earth and killers of baby animals.
Too much blood lost all around, and all for what?????? FUR??????? WTF?
I value ALL life. These sealers chose to go on the ice to kill. However, the poor seals have no escape from the murderous hands.
Serial Killers kill animals first. I wonder if they have ever done studies to see if people that could be so cruel and indifferent to another sentient being made of flesh and bone is more likely to beat his wife, kids, violent crime, etc. I also wonder about slaughter house workers, animal testing workers, war veterans etc.
I think this is great....the men that got killed....KARMA!!!!! I just hope for more to die....men that is....
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