I am embarrassed to associate myself with the human race, particularly Ryan Cleary, Stephen Harper and the rest of you NDP federal fucks who support the seal hunt and are not taking any action on ending it. What the FUCK has this world turned in to? Is this really what Canada has come to? I will lose it on the next 17 year old boy who I hear making a crack about the seal hunt. And you wonder why there are so many “troubled teens” these days. Would you like to get your head bashed in with a metal rod? Wake the fuck up. It is this stupid country that is provoking the evil acts of humans. I am beyond outraged that people support the violent and bloody seal-fur industry. It is so barbaric and inhumane, to say the least. I am at a loss of words. This is a cause that is so close to my heart and I have been trying to do everything I can to help end it, but some days I am so discouraged. —This Has to End
This article appears in Jan 19-25, 2012.
I ♣ baby seals!!
Ok, how do you suggest culling the herd? I would also like to hear you ideas on what will replace the economic benefits that are created by the seal hunt in these very remote areas.
Actually we used an oak rod with a iron hook on one end & the other was wrapped in a steel band….I’ve still got mine. Just haven’t used it in years.
But I also got no problem shooting them, clubbing is fine, hell if it wouldn’t ruin all the meat & the hide I’d have no problem throwing explosives at the little bastards.
I say bring back clubbing the white coats , we could take them when I was young.
Remember the little seal skin ornaments & wallets, moccassins etc. We could seriously use more cottage industry stuff like that especially for tourist season…better than a lobster trap miniature that says peggy’s cove on top & under it it says, made in fucking china !
Club PETA……….and seals. The only difference between the seal hunt and a slaughterhouse is four walls and a ceiling. The only good seal is a dead seal.
The stories I heard said there was an overwhelming population of seals, which was causing a depletion of local fish stocks and damage to fisherman’s traps and nets from the seals activity. Seems like pretty good reasons for a cull. As long as you’re not out for the baby seals, it’s a little harder to justify clubbing those guys.
A baby seal walked into a club. Badum bum pssh
and what are you doing about the billions of mosquitoes dying every year by unsympathetic bastards…
who will stand up for their rights???
they may be cute and fuzzy… but you have to remember that they’d eventually be starving themselves to death (and starving us from that same massive amount of fish they consume unrelentingly).
we can’t just ask them to move… pack up and head to australia…
so we take matters into our own ‘hands’.
preferably a nice, ash lousville slugger
I support the seal hunt. They eat all the fish. It is illegal to sell baby seals, so they get killed less than adult seals. Hunting is a normal human activity. People eat seal. Read up on cows in a slaughter house, IMO it is worse than what a seal goes through.
FUCK ANTI-SEAL-HUNT PROTESTORS.
That is all.
Its just that anti-seal hunt protestors and pro-life protestors really grind my gears…
“That is all.”
“really grind my gears…”
Wow, repeating stuff heard on an animated series really drives home your point, scholar.
I think “that is all” is more of a general saying, I’m sure it was on an animated series at some point, as are most common phrases….
Your logic is so ridiculous I don’t even know where to begin.
“And you wonder why there are so many “troubled teens” these days.”
Are you serious?
Very serious Tom. It goes back to 1979 when John Buchanan cut funding to after-school sports programs and replaced it with intra-mural seal clubbing. Damned neo-con agenda.
*shakes fist*
Why do they have to club the seals to death? Couldn’t they hunt in a more humane way?
I don’t know, the thought of bashing an animals head in to kill them invokes a physical reaction in me.
LOL Ivan!
lol, Ivan,
Your comments never fail to brighten my mood. Even when I WANT to remain pissed off! Damn you
“That is all” is about as deep as adding “juss sayin'” to the end of an opinionated post. *shakes head*
Ivan! More borscht.
Club anti sealing protesters, and seals
Thank you all, gentlemen. The pleasure was entirely mine. >: )
Donarious – In Sowiet Union, the soup beets you!
Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk – I kill me. The rest of you will just have to wait your turn.
the anti-choice group gets my vote for head bashing
Clubbing is actually very humane. They don’t feel a thing.
‘gasmatron is correct:
http://solidgame.co.za/wp-content/uploads/…
These ones clearly wouldn’t notice a low-yield thermo-nuclear detonation.
Of course it’s humane! The earliest humans were clubbing dinosaurs nearly 6,000 years ago! That’s why it’s humane!!
but they had them as pets mr fat^^
how is that possible… when the earth is only 4000 yrs old???
don’t be silly…
im curious if there would be such outcry if this happened down south. Even ill admit in the videos the red blood on the white snow and ice really stands out and makes it worse than it proboly really is. It jerks an emotional reaction pretty well
any born again atheists out there? religulous, watch it
Are you people seriously trying to tell me that early man DIDN’T get to chow down on great, honking, car-tipping racks of Brontosaurus ribs?
Goddam secular humanists – do you have to suck the joy out of EVERYTHING?
sorry uncle vanya, it’s that santorum dude, he is insane
I gotta come up with a new definition for myself. In the age of Newt Romnorum, even I’m starting to think of “Right-Winger” as a dirty word.
Perhaps: “Anarchic Libertarian – do what you want, but if you do it on my doorstep I’ll gut you like a hog!”
That has a certain poetic ring to it >: )
Like a hog! *laughs like C. Romngomery Burns*
OB, if you love seals so much….go up and hug one. I’d love to see it chew your face off. Here’s hoping those seal hunters bash those seals brains in. During the off-season they can play Seal Hunter on Wii to practice their swing. Clunk…..
John, I’ll tells ya a secret. “The Flintstones” is not a documentary.
http://media3.picsearch.com/is?8EPbjGUhF0b…
It….It’s n-n not…..?
http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lkj8ecqw…
have you ever tried drinking a club seal, it’s grosser than the soda shit.
I really hope that everyone against the seal hunt doesn’t eat chicken, pig, or cow. That would make them quite the hypocritical asswipe.
And OB, the human race is embarassed to be associated with you.
I have to go with OP on this one. Not so much the cull (although I abhor our tendency to interfere with living ecosystems by venting our wrath on predators after we’ve wiped out the prey)but the sense that the seals are responsible for the struggles of the Atlantic cod. No,they don’t help I’m sure but most species of seal are not picky eaters. They will eat what’s available as opposed to focusing on an individual species until it’s gone. That’s more the human domain.
In a natural predator-prey environment (not including invasive species), the predator’s numbers depend on the availability of the prey. If the prey’s numbers crash so do the predator’s. Grey, Hooded and Harp seals are indigenous to the North Atlantic as is the Northern Cod. A few centuries ago cod were plentiful and from that point backward, it’s logical to assume that was the case as well. There were those seals as well but, for some reason, the cod population stayed strong. Why? Because cod are only a part of the seal’s diet. Not necessarily a significant part.
Since then, two things have happened, the cod were overfished and the predators of the seal, sharks and orcas, have been disappearing. Most species of shark are in dire straits because of fishing related activites and orcas were exterminated by the whaling industry as pests when whaling was a part of life here. Whaling has since been banned but the orca populations have never really recovered.
No, the real threat to the fishery is climate change. Fish stocks are falling all over the world due to an unusually high absorption of CO2 in the oceans and temperature change to which fish are very sensitive. Not to mention the impact of climate change on rainfall patterns which feed estuarine environments, the nursery for an incredible amount of marine life.
Seals are scapegoats. Easier to kill a few pinnipeds than deal with the bigger problem.
I was under the impression they have been using more rifles for years. Of course, any animal rights protester will tell you all seals are clubbed, and they are all babies.
Lol.. So the reason for troubled teens “these days” is because of the seal hunts? As if this is something that started in 2009 or something?
How humans treat animals is disgusting but it doesn’t end with the clubbing of adorable cute little baby seals.
It’s not like other animals are treated any better when they’re murdered. At least seals get to live in the wild before they are savagely beaten to death.. Unlike factory farming :
Hey OB… a baby seal goes into a bar, the bartender says “What’ll you have?”
The seal replies, “Anything, but not Canadian Club on the rocks!”
For Ivan: http://ca.sports.yahoo.com/nhl/blog/puck_d…
very thoughtful post, critter guy ✔
He he he. Speaking of which, am I the only one who thinks that Ralphie from Christmas Story:
http://movinginwithdad.files.wordpress.com…
grew up to be Karl Rove
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm…
Maybe The Old Man should’t have gotten him that Daisy Red Rider, after all.
I support seal hunting, and am educated on the matter but I’m not going to go too in depth here except to say that a hakapik is more humane than a firearm in this instance. Read some literature (even wikipedia, if you want to go basic) on the success of killing first go with a hakapik vs a firearm.
I’ve had lengthy discussions with anti sealers, and in my experience most educated anti sealers tend to agree.
Slaughter is never pretty, from big animals like cows all the way down to fish. I think that most people are just so far removed from how food gets to the table that this fact has been largely forgotten.
Also, on the issue of over population of seals affecting fish stocks- it’s not that people are saying that the problem wasn’t initially caused by man. They are saying that science may actually be backing what fisherman have been saying for years, which is that the overpopulation of seals due to the reduced hunting of them is affecting recovery of fish stocks. Is it the only thing affecting it? No, and I would hope that this isn’t what most are claiming.
Holy fucking shit – every one of you are morons! Such immature comments. Grow the fuck up, you barbaric bastards. If the seal hunt is part of our heritage and tradition, why don’t we just bring back slavery. I hope you all die painfully.
http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/valleyfev…
Disclaimer: I loathe both PETA and Bullfighting. Until I actually taste one, I’m ambivalent avout the seal hunt.
score one for the big beasties http://www.ivegotthenews.net/2012/01/22/ye…
“Disclaimer: I loathe both PETA and Bullfighting. Until I actually taste one, I’m ambivalent avout the seal hunt.”
And if a gorgeous female bull fighter offered you a deceased bull’s ears after a fight? 😛
It’s a sign of respect in bull fighting culture so I’m told. I guess you could try eating them lol
Governor General of Canada:
http://www2.macleans.ca/wp-content/uploads…
…and you thought your sorority initiation was tough.
Do they have lady Bullfighters, D-Biggie? All I see are garlicky nancy-boys in satin pants who probably grew up playing stoop-tag with the Jesuits after choir practice. lol
she rawked as gg, looked good in a uniform too. here ya go fat, gnaw on some horns http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archiv…
LOL – Good jerky, I suppose. I once went to a Halloween party as a “Nam” vet with a 1/2 dozen of those dried hog’s ears that you get at the pet stores on my dog-tag chain.
Thanks for the link Painey. Just when you thought ritualistic animal abuse couldn’t get any worse – “Hey Paco – let’s the light the horns on fire. Arriba!” Feck me.
…or put together a fleet of 500 ships and try to invade England. I’m with PG and DB on this one. Sure I like my steak rare, but Ivan’s Mama taught him not to play with his food.
i don’t care if people eat animals, but kill them quickly and be done with it. don’t knock their teeth out and drain their bile or chop their fins off and chuck ’em back in
Sometimes it’s the anti-seal-hunters, sometimes it’s the “sea kittens” crowd… http://features.peta.org/PETASeaKittens/
Here’s a sea kitten, go and try to pet it! http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dFXhnsdOyx4/Sius…