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What are your thoughts on Canada's annual seal hunt?

According to this article, "Canada's parliamentary restaurant will be serving seal meat on Wednesday in a gesture of defiance aimed at a European Union ban on imports of seal products."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100308/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_seal
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unwirklich
unwirklich
Marked as Best! March 09, 2010 12:55 AM
Killing is never a humane process. We can live in our deluded world and claim that injecting or gassing is humane, but we're still simply living a delusion. Death comes to us all. Killing is also a part of life and the food chain. Animals in nature do not stop to think of how humanely they are killing their food.. they kill it and the survive because of it. Canadians killing seals that they are in fact eating is no less humane or moral than a wolf killing a moose.

In short, I see no harm in the seal hunt and don't see how the European Union can justify banning seal meat.. yet the happily accept the meat of other animals.
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bklynj
bklynj
March 09, 2010 01:29 AM
I think the political posturing is stupid like two five year olds. The clubbing process is something that should not be allowed but the shooting to save the animals suffering I think is OK. It is food for the table and not just a waste of life. If the EU wants to ban seal that is also their right to do so. Like the Japanese whalers that kill as if in the name of science. I think as long as the animal is used fully and they are not depleted to extinction or close to it it's the same thing as the fish that come out of the sea. Seals are just more intelligent.
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fabliaux
fabliaux
March 09, 2010 02:42 AM
I agree with both the previous posters. If they are killing just to kill and be defiant, that is childish and cruel. I'm okay with thinning out herds of animals (such as deer) that tend to grow so fast in numbers that they can hurt people and themselves (car strikes and lack of food for a growing population come to mind). But if the seal population isn't a threat to themselves or people, then its a show of poor taste to continue with a useless slaughter. There are many cultures that kill animals for sport. I think the practice is slowly diminishing as people realize the implications of what they are doing. Canada seems like they are just trying to assert their autonomy. It's akin to a teenager yelling to the parent, "quit treating me like a child..." when the teen is obviously acting like one.
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lidyax2
lidyax2
March 09, 2010 03:54 AM
That is extremely childish. If they hunt seal because the seals are overpopulated, then they should present their arguments in rational and scientific matter, not doing something that will make people roll their eyes and say "Grow up." f the seals population are diminished to the point of extinction, then it is cruel. But if they are in abundance, I don't see killing seals as more inhumane as killing a cow or a pig. At least the seals don't grow up in a cruel cramped farm. If they kill seals for fun, then the Europeans are right to ban it. I
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