Please help end Canada's Seal Hunt

[~sudsshane]

Robert,

I hope you don't mind me addressing this topic on your website and I heartfully thank you in advance.
I realize this topic doesn't have anything to do with appliances or anything vintage, but I thought it would be a great way to reach people worldwide who oppose this very BRUTAL human act. I dread every March when Canada's seal hunt begins.
Please, if you agree with me, go to this website and let your voice be heard.

www.stopthesealhunt.ca

Happy Easter to everyone!

Shane






Dear Shane,

As you read this, fishermen in Canada are preparing for the 2008 seal hunt. They will kill an astonishing 275,000 seals, almost all of them babies just weeks old. The Humane Society of the United States' ProtectSeals team is also preparing. We'll be on the ice, too -- documenting the cruel realities of the largest commercial slaughter of marine mammals. Will you stand with us and help us tell the world what is happening? Here are two steps you can take to speak out against the hunt and spread the word on how we can end it.

Help send a strong message to the Canadian government to end the seal slaughter. The hunt is opposed by the overwhelming majority of people in Canada and around the world, and Canada's Minister of International Trade is in a unique position to stop it. But he must be convinced that the seal hunt damages Canada's economy and international reputation. Contact the Canadian Minister of International Trade, David Emerson, and urge him to end the seal hunt.

Famed fashion photographer and America's Next Top Model judge Nigel Barker has joined our campaign to end the seal hunt. He's issued a challenge: sign the pledge to boycott Canadian seafood, then tell your friends. The person who gets the most friends to sign this pledge will win a unique seal-themed prize pack. The Pledge Challenge closes this Monday, March 24, at midnight EDT, so click here to take action now.

Thank you for standing with us with your generous donation. Together, we will end Canada's cruel seal hunt forever.

Sincerely,

Wayne Pacelle
President & CEO
The Humane Society of the United States

To let the Canadian Government know your oppose this brutal slaughter, Please sign the letter at the below website.

www.stopthesealhunt.ca

 

[glamwales]

Awful ,, Criminal , Its a pity the seals cant batter canadians around the head with clubs.

Glam

 

[gansky1]

Why is this here?

 

[~sudsshane]

Tomorrow begins the cruel hunt

Please sign petition to stop this cruel, barbaric act!

http://<a href='javascript:void(0)' onclick='window.open(

 

[~sudsshane]

Please help support an end to this

another link

http://<iframe src='video.hsus.org/linking/index.jsp?skin=oneclip&fr_story=75712ef389431086dfcf59a20f1b679f626a9bb4&rf=ev&hl=true' width=302 height=262 scrolling='no' frameborder=0 marginwidth=0 marginheight=0></iframe>

 

[conate]

Has anyone done any...

Has anyone - ON BOTH SIDES - done any analysis to see

* What the carrying capacity of the environment these animals are in?
* How many can the area support?
* What the maximum number culled should be?

It is very easy to look at graphic imagery and say 'oh this should be stopped' -- BUT hunting is a valid tool for conservation. Yes, conservation! If more animals are in an area than can support them, they will die most horribly.

Nate

 

[glamwales]

I guess that principle applies to people then ? Yeah , lets start with a 2 million.

 

[conate]

people are a different story.

People are a different story. War, famine, and plague will handle what voluntary birth control does not.

I am a hunter. I eat when I kill. To me, food that is fetched yourself is a more spiritual thing then that which you allow others to do your 'dirty work' for.

Additionally, everything a human eats has been alive.

EVERYTHING survives by eating something else that has once been alive (okay I'm talking about more complex organisms here). Even plants 'eat' by absorbing nutrients from the dirt, which has been fertilized by organic matter.

Unnecessary cruelty to animals, and wasting the carcass that you kill - now those are tremendously evil.

Nate

 

[pushtorelease]

Like most Canadians, I oppose the seal hunt. It's a highly controversial issue here with the Inuit & first nations peoples talking about thousands of years traditions etc. However, it really comes down to one thing - there is a market for that fur. Someone, whether it's in the US, Canada, Europe.... is going to buy a seal coat. Until that mentality is changed and there is NO market for the fur, nobody proud of their new dead seal coat, nothing is going to change. Check out some facts on the 5 countries that still do the hunt.

Seal hunting - Wikipedia

www.wikipedia.org

 

[runematic]

Protest song

 

[runematic]

But seriously, though, I am a hunter (yeah, I know, hard to believe!). I believe in "fair chase" hunting. I don't know if I consider this hunting, but it's legal. Could I participate in this? I doubt it. Others have for hundreds of years. It's a way of life. Who am I to condemn it.
Here are some facts from the Canadian gov't.

We couldn't find that Web page (Error 404) - Government of Canada Web Usability theme / Nous ne pouvons trouver cette page Web (Erreur 404) - Thème de la facilité d’emploi Web du gouvernement du Canada

www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca

 

[perc-o-prince]

It's barbaric. These "hunters" (using the term loosely) operate under little supervision, and even the journalists weren't granted "hunt observation permits" this year. So, as the Humane Society says, the "hunters" are able to do their disgusting deeds without being recorded.

I understand the culling of herds to preserve the herd, but not by clubbing or using hakapiks, with the check of the system being a "blinking eye reflex test" that the hunters are supposed to perform (how many do you think actually do this each time???). There is such a thing as a humane kill.

Sick.

Chuck