Too bad we can't swap the baby seals for Paul McCartney.
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Canada the Butcher
- Thread starter Maverick74
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Too bad we can't swap the baby seals for Paul McCartney.
The Canadian Sportsman....
<img src=http://www.ifaw.org/ifaw/dimages/custom/3_images/Seals/slideshow/6.jpg>
Seals are still skinned before being rendered fully unconscious and few sealers are observed checking for a blinking reflex to confirm brain death prior to skinning an animal.
<img src=http://www.ifaw.org/ifaw/dimages/custom/3_images/Seals/slideshow/8.jpg>
The most economically valuable part of a seal remains its fur, a non-essential luxury product that no one really needs. Here a sealer skins the seals and leaves the rest of the carcass on the ice to rot.
<img src=http://www.ifaw.org/ifaw/dimages/custom/3_images/Seals/slideshow/11.jpg>
<img src=http://www.ifaw.org/ifaw/dimages/custom/3_images/Seals/slideshow/6.jpg>
Seals are still skinned before being rendered fully unconscious and few sealers are observed checking for a blinking reflex to confirm brain death prior to skinning an animal.
<img src=http://www.ifaw.org/ifaw/dimages/custom/3_images/Seals/slideshow/8.jpg>
The most economically valuable part of a seal remains its fur, a non-essential luxury product that no one really needs. Here a sealer skins the seals and leaves the rest of the carcass on the ice to rot.
<img src=http://www.ifaw.org/ifaw/dimages/custom/3_images/Seals/slideshow/11.jpg>
Clubbing is a swift and humane way to kill the seals. Do you know how your bacon and beef steak is killed? Pig farms are the most inhumane places. The manner in which pigs and cattle are killed is even more inhumane.
Quote from Maverick74:
You see nothing wrong with clubbing baby seals to death?
Quote from Maverick74:
You see nothing wrong with clubbing baby seals to death?
Quote from TheConMan:
Clubbing is a swift and humane way to kill the seals. Do you know how your bacon and beef steak is killed? Pig farms are the most inhumane places. The manner in which pigs and cattle are killed is even more inhumane.
Quote from Maverick74:
You see nothing wrong with clubbing baby seals to death?
Those pictures didn't look too humane to me. And besides, they are not even fully dead when they are being skinned. Yeah, real humane.
Watch the video of the Canadian Sportsman clubbing baby seals to death.....
http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2667866?htv=12
I'm sure many ET members own dogs, imagine someone clubbing puppies to death this way.....
http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2667866?htv=12
I'm sure many ET members own dogs, imagine someone clubbing puppies to death this way.....
Quote from ZZZzzzzzzz:
Watch the video of the Canadian Sportsman clubbing baby seals to death.....
http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2667866?htv=12
I'm sure many ET members own dogs, imagine someone clubbing puppies to death this way.....
There really is no way to defend this or support this sport.
Quote from Maverick74:
I still don't follow. The media has said very little about the killing of the seals. The only thing I have seen on the subject on the news is a special Larry King did with Paul McCartney and his wife. The media has ignored this as far as I can see. As far as animal rights group, they have come out to denounce this as well as come out against the treatment of feeder cattle and chickens.
I must be missing the whole conspiracy thing here.
The Canadian media gives waaay more coverage to the inhumane seal hunt than it does to the tortorous conditions in which NA livestock is routinely raised.
I should know. I am Canadian (not the beer).
My point is directed to the naive tree huggers who champion their new humanitarian cause while remaining totally clueless as to the far more widespread abuses of the very livestock they eat. Which of course, happens everyday.
Not a few weeks out of the year, like the seal hunt.
I assumed you fell squarely within this group because you picked up on a highly sensational/grotesque news story while remaining silent about the far more tortuous conditions commercial livestock spend their ENTIRE lives in.
To me, if you were truly earnest and informed in your outrage, you would start with the former. Or at least acknowledge it.
But perhaps you are informed and curiously chose to focus on this particular issue to the exclusion of others. If so, then I apologize.
But most people are far more gullable and easily manipulated because they dont do their homework. So when they get blindsided by a sensational hit-piece like this that lacks any semblance of context, they eat it up hook, line and sinker.
That video was difficult to watch.
That being said, I am sure a video of a slaughter house or a walk-through of a commercial farm would be just as stomach turning.
Rifles probably should be used instead of clubs.
Yes, their last 60 seconds on earth was abject suffering. But lets not lose context.
Those seals enjoyed a much better life than the livestock raised for us.
All in all, two wrongs don't make a right. Steroid-free, free range animals is the optimum.
When i start earning enough, thats all i will buy.
kudos.
That being said, I am sure a video of a slaughter house or a walk-through of a commercial farm would be just as stomach turning.
Rifles probably should be used instead of clubs.
Yes, their last 60 seconds on earth was abject suffering. But lets not lose context.
Those seals enjoyed a much better life than the livestock raised for us.
All in all, two wrongs don't make a right. Steroid-free, free range animals is the optimum.
When i start earning enough, thats all i will buy.
kudos.
Quote from achilles28:
The Canadian media gives waaay more coverage to the inhumane seal hunt than it does to the tortorous conditions in which NA livestock is routinely raised.
I should know. I am Canadian (not the beer).
My point is directed to the naive tree huggers who champion their new humanitarian cause while remaining totally clueless as to the far more widespread abuses of the very livestock they eat. Which of course, happens everyday.
Not a few weeks out of the year, like the seal hunt.
I'm not a treehugger and I'm not clueless to the other widespread abuses in the livestock industry.
I assumed you fell squarely within this group because you picked up on a highly sensational/grotesque news story while remaining silent about the far more tortuous conditions commercial livestock spend their ENTIRE lives in.
You assumed wrong. I picked up the story becaue the story is happening now! When should I bring it to people's attention? I'm not silent on the livestock issue, this thread is about the seals. If you want to talk about the livestock issue, start a thread and we'll discuss it there.
To me, if you were truly earnest and informed in your outrage, you would start with the former. Or at least acknowledge it.
I am outraged over the seal hunt. I also acknowledge there is animal abuse in the livestock industry in the US and Canada as well as the slaughtering of cats and dogs for fur in China. I could start threads on all these topics. But this thread is on the seal hunt. So we'll start here.
But perhaps you are informed and curiously chose to focus on this particular issue to the exclusion of others. If so, then I apologize.
I am not excluding this other issues. I am trying to keep this thread on topic. Again, this thread is on the seal hunt.
But most people are far more gullable and easily manipulated because they dont do their homework. So when they get blindsided by a sensational hit-piece like this that lacks any semblance of context, they eat it up hook, line and sinker.
Manipulated? So you are saying that these baby seals are not being clubbed to death for sport? They are not lieing their on the ice still breathing after they have only been half killed? Maybe I am missing something here. Indulge me.
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