Canada's seal hunt to continue in April

Seals in Canada got a reprieve today, as ice kept sealing boats from reaching them to continue the annual hunt in progress in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

There is a possibility that the boats will go out tomorrow, if winds shift the ice enough.

Otherwise, the gruesome scene will begin anew in April, off the shores of Quebec and the west coast of the island of Newfoundland. At least 50,000 pups will be targeted during this phase.

The hunt then moves to off the northeast coast of Newfoundland, where more than 175,000 seals are expected to be killed.

The slaughter is brutal, with pups being clubbed to death or shot first and then finished off by clubbing. The mammals are skinned and their carcasses are left behind.

While some scavengers may take advantage of the glut of available food, most of the carcasses are left to decompose.

The Canadian government set a quota of 338,000 seals as the allowable catch for the hunt, an increase of 55,000 from last year.

-- Kelly Burgess

Photo from The Humane Society of the United States

Comments

[Linda Jay]

Even the WWF does not support ending the seal hunt but just changing a few practices. EVEN the pioneer of marine conservation Jacques Cousteau said that people should be concerned about endangered animals not the seal hunt.

Really, just do basic fact checking and you'll be surprised with what you uncover.

Even if the seals are being killed just for furs, what's wrong with that? Hell, you environmentalists should be all over it since fur is a renewable material, is biodegradable, and is treated with less chemicals than our synthetic clothing.

[Tyler]

if baby seals were not so cute.. no one would care... the seal population is exploding.. without this hunt the seals would be consumed by a huge spread of disease... IF YOU PEOPLE REALLY WANT TO DO SOMETHING NICE DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE POLAR BEARS BECAUSE THEY ARE REALLY IN TROUBLE

[Tim Smith]

Neil you make some extremely good points about these scumbags and their new jobs - they're not medically fit from what I can see, it isn't a good idea at all, they will run around stabbing cops in Canada or something like that, does the DPS wish to wear that; "will the minister for public safety please explain why these maniacs were allowed onto the streets?" "Your honour/worship/sir we weren't to know they'd start carving up innocent members of the public were we?" Which would be followed by a public safety warning, meaning Canada's status as a safe country, would drop, then news reports flood in, "Another Canadian was skinned alive at an Alberta shopping centre..." Enough already I think.

[Neil Warne]

Mia, I noticed your little pearler on the CBC website, about Danny Williams calling Europeans hypocrites, "In Australia we have freedom of speech." Implying that this does not exist in Canada as you believe that Canada is red China, fuelled by your hatred of this country in relation to the seal hunt. Mia, please don't embarrass mainstream Australians with such hate-filled assumptions like that, I know it doesn't LOOK as if Canadians hate the seal massacre or to you that democracy still exists in Canada but they DO and it DOES. I went overseas a few years ago, to Europe, and wore my fair share of criticism, about mandatory detention, live sheep exporting etc, and then we got to talking about the seal hunt in Canada, after which the German said "I still love Canada, but not as much as I will once the seal hunt ends.

[Neil Warne]

Another point I should make that has already been made, in response to "let's find them new jobs" I don't think this will work at all, these "things" do not deserve a new job seeing they chose to participate in this madness. What they should be slapped with is a life sentence either in jail (max security) or a mental facility under the "criminally insane" classification. Think about it. A "hunter" works in a factory in Alberta - been there a couple of months and isn't too bright, and still hasn't got the hang of the job. Has a heated argument with a co-worker who has found out one way or another about his previous employment which no-one in the co-worker's family or line of friends thought was acceptable. The argument heats up and then all of a sudden out comes a crowbar/baseball bat with nails sticking out the end that has been in the boot of the car of the hunter. The co-worker and others run for their lives but a number are clubbed and then one is skinned alive in front of horrified workmates who faint and vomit on the spot. One yells "call the police" and the tactical response unit are called.... said hunter is arrested and charged with GBH and attempted murder, this is not a scenario we want played out?....hasn't the seal "hunt" caused Canadians enough grief already, there are jobs in prison believe it or not....so that sorts that out.

[Neil Warne]

And obviously being Australian, I realise Australia is not perfect unlike our friend Mia Manifold...Mia I have some news for you which you may not like to hear...Australia is not perfect either...we have (or have had) the same sorts of politicians in this country as the corrupt thugs that exist in Canada's current government.

Gail Shea - equivalent of Amanda Vanstone

Loyola Hearn - equivalent of Philip Ruddock.

Stephen Harper - equivalent of John Howard, hey Stevo, why don't you shave your hair off, and grow your eyebrows bushy, and get some glasses? Would suit you.

Paul Watson - equivalent of Steve Irwin.

Mac Harb - equivalent of Kevin Rudd.

The Chaser boys should be taking the piss out of THIS ATROCITY rather than little kids....surprise spruiker, come on in folks for a cheap seal coat, you sir would you like to club a seal pup to death in cold ice, or perhaps you'd like this nice coat made out of seal fur, never to be repeated prices yes folks it's seal clubbing MADNESS it's a seal fur coat BONANZA get in before midnight tonight this seal hunt cannot last.

[Neil Warne]

It must be scrapped. And I refuse to believe that seal pups are not friendly, because I have seen videos of them being friendly and gentle towards the camera. You pro-seal clubbers can come up with all the recycled garbage you want...you ain't fooling us. Let's see a ban enacted and this stain on Canada's image removed.

[Club the clubber]

I am for clubbing the clubbers of the seals.
What a bunch of cowards!
Maybe leave them on the ice skinned, and ready as bear bait.
There is no reason to be doing this type of murder.
We need to find out exactly where all these pelts end up and take action there.

Sadly stupid greedheads in the Far East have destroyed their own animals and nature and have been trying to exploit ours in the West and the third world for many years. From the Galoapagos Islands with their sea cucumbers pillaged off the ocean floor so some old man can get an erection and to the shores of Somalia's fishing grounds were they have left those folks starving and having to resort of Piracy this sickness travels the world unabated. It goes into the great ice shelves of the Canadian Artic and murders little helpless animals in such a cowardly way that these people need to commit suicide to redeam themselfs in our eyes.
The west has sold itself out not only to it's own greedy rich scum here but to the rich and middle class of Asia . We(the world) suffer from the endless attack of drift nets for some yuppie's susi.

Birth control is the answer!
More condoms =.Less people = more animals
You ask me any country where they have over 1 billion people is a major problem and a disaster waiting to happen.
How can you expect the world to support this endless expansion of people?
And no I do not support the murder of any animal in a cruel and cowardly way.
So do not bring up that illogical argument on this post as it only makes you look stupid and like a boot licking blow hard coward as well.
That defense is called a fallacy two wrongs do not make a right.

[T Hedderson, NL]

ATTENTION TO ALL:

Here is an absolutely Blatant example, of how a Newfoundland Canadian Sealer will attempt to lie to you, scam you, mislead you, and the lengths they will go to to try to trick the public, including all of you.

1st: Read this post full of falsified info, posted by the user named "ANGRY NEWFIE" which purports all this fake info as his 'facts', even criticizing journalists, while his own post is full of lies:

"Posted by: Angered Newfie | April 27, 2009 at 03:00 PM

First of all... I thought journalists had to get their facts STRAIGHT before they were allowed to publsih their artciles.
FACT: PUPS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO BE KILLED...and are not because there is NO market for them.
FACT: MOst hunters shoot their animals dead, as they too are conservators, and do not want to lose injured animals.
FACT: A lot of hunters bring in the carcuses, and eat seal meat. MOST of them actually
FACT: as for the carcuses left behind on the ice, this helps to enrich the sea, that all of us are guilty in destroying.
Before you comment , get your facts straight. And if you feel bad over the hunt of seals, because they are cute and cuddly..you deserve to be put out on the ice and left to face one. I think you may sing a different tune . Afterall- they are not friendly!!

Posted by: Angered Newfie | April 27, 2009 at 03:00 PM"

OK, NOW

He attempts to make you believe this:
"FACT: A lot of hunters bring in the carcuses, and eat seal meat. MOST of them actually"=FALSE.

2nd: Read this. This is a news article. Which clearly states that MOST of the carcasses are left on the ice.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2006/03/23/nf_seal_meat_20060323.html

NEWS: "Province still searching for seal meat markets"
Thursday, March 23 9:26 AM NT
CBC News

"The province's fisheries minister says he does not see a short term solution to the lack of markets for seal meat.

That means most of the meat from seals killed in this year's hunt will be left on the ice.

Fisheries Minister Tom Rideout said the province and Ottawa have spent a lot of money over the years trying to develop markets for seal meat without a lot of success.

"But despite everybody's best effort, up until now we just haven't been successful in developing something that would even pay it's way."

About 290,000 seal pelts were landed on the northeast coast of Newfoundland last season.

However, flippers from only 31,000 animals came in, in addition to another 6,700 kilograms of meat."

"Most of the carcasses were left on the ice."

Tom Rideout

--Ok, now, REALIZE that this article is from CANADA. This is from the very homeland of the hunt itself that is corroborating that MOST OF THE CARCASSES ARE LEFT ON THE ICE.

Not only that, this newspaper is from NEWFOUNDLAND! In other words, this story comes straight from the heart of the province where over 90% of the seal hunt is perpetrated!

Next, the person stating this information, happens to be the FISHERIES MINISTER OF THE PROVINCE!

The Department of Fisheries and Oceans or ( DFO ) in Canada is the very government agency that is charged with the rules, operation, enforcment, monitoring, tracking of the amounts of seals killed, meat taken, and the running of the entire hunt.

So what this Sealer, naming himself "ANGRY NEWFIE" has tried to pull on you, is to dupe all of you into believing his concocted "FACTS" which are clearly debunked by his own newspaper, his own country, his own province, and the Official Fisheries Minister of Newfoundland!

This is how blatantly Pro Sealers will lie to you, and tell you things like they don't kill the baby ones-FALSE, they use ever part of seal-FALSE, they use most of the Meat-FALSE, It's for Natives-FALSE!, it supplies 35% of their income-FALSE!, blah blah blah, all of those things are scams. REMEMBER: A lie is nothing, to a killer. And this shows all of you very clearly the lengths they will go to, and the blatant lies they will tell you in order to justify their horrible atrocities.

Nearly all of the things posted by pro sealers are proven false and debunked.

[Angered Newfie]

First of all... I thought journalists had to get their facts STRAIGHT before they were allowed to publsih their artciles.

FACT: PUPS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO BE KILLED...and are not because there is NO market for them.

FACT: MOst hunters shoot their animals dead, as they too are conservators, and do not want to lose injured animals.

FACT: A lot of hunters bring in the carcuses, and eat seal meat. MOST of them actually

FACT: as for the carcuses left behind on the ice, this helps to enrich the sea, that all of us are guilty in destroying.

Before you comment , get your facts straight. And if you feel bad over the hunt of seals, because they are cute and cuddly..you deserve to be put out on the ice and left to face one. I think you may sing a different tune . Afterall- they are not friendly!!

[Dave]

Paul Watson and the HSUS never said no to any animal.............that they could raise a buck on.

The HSUS are not your local SPCA or other humane society. Their name is very deceitful, they have no shelters or spay/neuter programs. THey have a budget of 10s of millions but have given about $150,000 to shelters etc.

www.activistcash.com

[gord]

Get the facts on HSUS from activistcash.com

Hear the interview on youtube Barbara Frumm - Paul Watson interview

[Gord]

Mark above's main goal is to spread slurs and stereotypes about a whole people in one particular province in Canada. Despite the fact that less than 1% of this provinces people engage in the seal hunt.

Its fine to put forward a sane well thought out argument or statement. When one needs to resort to ethnic slurs and stereotypes its pathetic. If these are the lengths animal rights people will go to, I hope that in a truly enlightened world the average person will ignore the rantings of some racist zealots.

Seals are killed for profit
Cattle , poultry are raised and killed for profit.
Nothing more nothing less.
If seal meat was as familiar with the masses as cattle or chicken their would be no argument.
FUR IS GREEN, just like the money the rancher, the sealer and the fast food joint owner craves.

[Hank]

hit canada. hit canadian students abroad (I know about some schools in my town). It's easy to build a bomb. Hit canadian products. They asked for it.
Same for japan, Norway... I'm not saying kill people but make noise, smoke, flames... press will report...

[Samos Tartuglia]

TO: Luke Thomas the bozo.

LukeThomas, Did you Not notice that you and your ridiculous postings were debunked about 4 posts ago?

The people who help seals ALREADY ARE HELPING PROTECT OTHER ANIMALS! Including dogs. and cats. and pigs. and evrything.

Got it? - So Luke Thomas, you can never post your foolish argument again. You and what you posted have been shown as a logical fallacy. It cannot be used.

Do you understand that, Luke? Do you even understand Why what you said is totally inapplicable?

Look, let's pretend, for 1 second, that you actually care about dogs, and not just using them as an excuse. Ok, now here is a quick quiz for you:

Which of these two categories help dogs AND seals?
A. Animal Helpers
B. Seal Slaughterers

The answer is (A). Have you got that?

Animal Helpers help seals, cats, dogs, pigs, cows, chickens, also many do NOT eat them either, often vegan, or vegetarian, and therefore already do NOT support slaughterhouses, and animal helpers even at the very least eat less meat than a hunter, and therefore kill less animals than someone without a conscience.

Seal Slaughterers are already by definition animal killers. And they think Nothing whatsoever of bashing an animals head in. And so hardly give a crap about anything you wrote about dogs. It's seal clubbers that DO NOT help dogs, nor do they help seals, nor do they give a crap about killing all of those types of animals, or care how they are killed.

So here YOU are, Luke Dummas.. trying to tell a whole audience of people that already care about dogs to care about dogs. Do you see how that is inane? You're attempting to tell people who already fight to help dogs that what they should be doing is helping dogs. Or pigs, or whatever animal you want to put in the sentence. It is all irrelevant whatever you try to type. Do you get that?

Ok, and next, what you are attempting to do, is tell people who already care for both the dogs you mentioned plus seals, that you really care about dogs so they should support Seal clubbers who kill seals, and dont give a rat's patoot about how some mangey dogs are put away, they consider it populatin control or good riddance.

Ok? now. do you see Luke Dummas, how inane your concocted argument is? You are saying that dogs or whatever animals are treated badly, so the people who already care about dogs and animals should stop trying to help another kind of animal, and support the people who kill that kind of animal, and support sealers who dont help dogs at all.

Luke Thomas your argument is inane and fallacious and everyone sees through it already, so stop it before you make yourself look worse. You've been exposed. You can never use that 'go worry about some other animal or country' thing again, it's irrelevant.

Now go home Luke and try to think up something else that is not so easily debunked. That one is done.

And also, start being a patriotic Canadian. Patriotic Canadians are Against the seal hunt. It is people who root for the seal hunt that perpetuate stink on the country. It is the patriotic Canadian that stands up to stop the seal hunt, and by stopping the seal hunt restores honor and pride in the nation. The good canadian realizes that sealers hurt canada. Sealers bilk tax money out of every good canadians paycheck, to prop up lavish trips to the EU, and pay for millions of dollars worth of wasted money down the drain for a small faction of special interest killers, hurting the entire population of canada. The seal hunt is an economic drain, it is a financial loss to the nation, and it is the good canadian who rises up to stop the seal hunt and wash its stink off the nation. It is the sour and nasty person who would support seal killers who taint the country's image and bury canada's name in garbage.

Cheers to all good Canadians who are *against* the seal hunt, you are the true heroes & patriots!

[C Hooymans]

I used to love Canada and I'm Canadian!

[Luke Thomas]

Well, look at it this way-once the seals are hunted to extinction, you won't have to worry about them any more-no more seal hunt! Simple solution.

[Luke Thomas]

How do I know animals are gassed to death and suffer tremendous agony in dog pounds? I live in the United States and I seen it with my own eyes. That's why I know.

Some dog pounds can legally shoot them, poison them with strychnine poison-and stab them in the heart with a needle (WHILE BEING HELD DOWN WITH THEIR FOOT!) which is more agonizing than you can possibly imagine and the poor cat or dog (puppy/kitten) screams in agony. Many times the tech misses and it can take 20 minutes to finally die.

And you all complain about the SEAL HUNT? COME ON-United States you all are just as bad including boiling animals ALIVE in farm factories. The seal hunt is nothing compaired to what America does to their animals. GET REAL!!!

[laura hernandez]

this is so brutal i do not know how can this is hapens ban it all hunting and killing

[Banks Wilkinson]

The annual slaughter of Harp seal pups off the coast of Atlantic Canada is the largest mass killing of marine mammals on Earth. This atrocity is unbelievably cruel, wasteful and inhumane. All those killed are babies - between 12 days and three months old. They are clubbed to death, or shot, but many are skinned alive, in front of their terrified mothers! The bodies are left to rot. Nobody needs or wants the pelts, which the government of Canada must subsidize. The whole sick endeavor is the most horrifying slaughter imaginable. This crime against nature must end!
And to those pawns of the seal slaughter who are trying to justify the mass killing, please know that we are not hypocrites. I am a vegetarian. I am not going to condone the killing of cows, pigs, chickens or other animals. However, at least those animals are not babies; they are not killed in such a cruel manner; and they are not killed wastefully, as are the innocent seals. I am calling on a boycott of all Canadian products, services and tourism, until the slaughter is ended permanently. We started out, several years ago, calling for a boycott of Canadian seafood, since the seal killers are fishermen the rest of the year. Obviously this has not worked, so we must up the ante this year! Shame on Canada!!

[Tom Rideout]

Notice:

To any commenter on here who attempted to use a known sealer trick, which consists of a known debunked tactic of bringing up 'slaughterhouses', 'pigs', 'cows', 'chickens', [insert list of all kinds of Other animal names here], you are now discredited.

This sealer propagandist ploy consists of using a falsified post wherein they accuse and point fingers at you, all of you out there in the public, and call You the bad guy. So that they can get away with their crimes.

The people who defend animals ALREADY are against slaughterhouses. In fact, if anyone goes to the Humane Society HSUS web site, you can clearly see that a Slaughterhouse was in fact Shut Down! It was closed down. And the slaughterhouse was opposed. And it's a good thing too, because HSUS probably saved thousands of people's lives, because it was infected, and they were pumping out contagion.

Now, anyone, can see this, in about 2 seconds, simply by going to the HSUS page. Defenders already stand up for cows, pigs, sheep, chickens, "10 billion other animals", [insert other animal name here], non-cute things, etc. So animal activists, and defenders, and those opposing the seal hunt ALREADY DO THIS.

Yet, what a sealer will do, is use this already known debunked trick, to attempt to fool all of you, and deflect attention away from himself, to justify and get away with his crimes.

For example, take a look at this same tactic, if you substitute some other term instead of the seal hunt, and you will see how this is patently flawed:

"People against us [raping] should mind their own business, because [rape] is already committed in [other country name here], so you have No right to be against [rape], when there are 10,000,000 incidents of [rape] already in your country. [rape] has been committed for thousands of years, so it is part of 'culture', and who are you to oppose it. You shouldn't be spending your time opposing [rape] when there's worse things like the Iraq war, or mass-murder. So you need to allow our [rape] to continue....etc etc"--ALL OF THIS IS FALSE crap akin to Seal Hunter B.S. - Substitute the word [seal hunting] and you'll see. By simply substituting another word in what trick sealers use, you can get a good idea of how flawed and fraudulent this sealer ploy is. That succinctly exposes it.

The seal hunt hurts Canada. Sealers hurt Canadians. Sealers hurt the native people. The commercial Sealers are Not natives! In fact the forefathers of these current sealers killed, mutilated, beat and murdered the Native people in canada.

An animal defender who is against the seal hunt is often ALSO against slaughterhouses too, they already work to help against factory farms too, and also helps pigs, helps other animals, is compassionate for all animals, ugly or not, and defenders help the earth, make the world better.

Whereas, a sealer, the same one who just ranted at all of YOU for 'helping' and acting like he cares so much about slaughterhouses and pigs, is the same sealer who couldn't give a crap about the slaughterhouses, pigs, cows, etc he just mentioned. He'd just as soon destroy those animals too! These are blatant killers.

Seal clubbers are people who can walk up to an animal that can't get away, and konk it in the skull until bits of its skull crack off, and pieces of it spatter all around them and they hear it yelping, and trying to get away and they will crack that one, don't care, and they'd crack the skull of a pig, cow, kill a chicken, etc without the slightest conscience about it. These sealers are people who consiste of some that have been convicted of crimes, federal offenses, and have been convicted in court.

And these sealers and wannabe's and pro-sealer advocates like this Anrit on here are proven false, exposed as tricksters and propagandists, who try to use Your humanity and caring against you by bringing up [name some other animal that defenders Already help here] and they attempt to use it as propaganda to leverage against all of you here, and the world, and against all good canadians too, in a failure of an attempt to continue their atrocities. And when they would just as easily kill ALL of those animals they just brought up, to use against you.

But they do not realize that trick does not work, and since the whole world already knows that Defenders against the seal hunt ALREADY help against slaughterhouses, and help cows, and pigs, etc, (especially some defenders have actually saved millions of cows, pigs, chickens, etc...by not eating them!) -- it just makes that sealer or pro-sealer advocate look more stupid attempting to bring up the cow-pig argument that everyone knows Animal Defenders already help with. This pro-sealer garbage line by Amrit and Luke is already known false.

Anytime you see a sealer bring up that cow-pig-slaughterhouse ploy, you can immediately cast aside and throw out that user. They and their ploy have been already discredited.

[Rad]

SHAME ON CANADA!
All for the sake of fur. Its unforgivable!
The seal fur market is dying and this hunt is hanging on to its last days because when the demand dries up (and thats allreday begun) the hunt will have to stop.
I dont give a toss what happens to the sealers because they are monsters who dont deserve a thing. You cant do something as vile and brutal as that and expect to still be classed as human! They are all fit and able they could have chosen any job or moved to an area where work was more readily available; theres so many ways to earn a living without causing suffering. Instead they chose to engage in this atrocity, so therefore should be outcast. Dont compensate them, give the money to wildlife sanctuarys and reserves, or put it into wildlife tourism instead. Hasnt the sealing industry wasted enough of Canadian tax payers money?

[Dr. John Kemp, Newfoundland Canada]

SEAL MEAT CONTAINS HUGE QUANTITIES OF METHYL MERCURIC COMPOUNDS.

EATING SEAL MEAT, WHICH IS CONTAMINATED WITH THESE TOXINS AND PUSHED BY CANADIAN SEALERS, CAUSES NEURO-COGNTIVE DEGENERATION , BRAIN TISSUE DAMAGE, LOW IQ, and STUNTED INTELLIGENCE,

CANADIAN SEALERS, WHO PUSH THE NATIVES, AND CANADIAN CITIZENS, AND EUROPEAN CITIZENS TO EAT IT & SEAL OIL ARE CAUSING THEM DAMAGE.

ANYONE WHO EATS SEAL MEAT CAN GIVE BIRTH TO DEFORMED CHILDREN WITH BIRTH DEFECTS. DUE TO THE CONCENTRATIONS OF POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS AND MERCURIC COMPOUNDS IN SEAL MEAT & OIL.

THIS IS AKIN TO EATING LEAD PAINT CHIPS.

SEAL HUNTERS WANT TO PUSH THESE PRODUCTS FOR PEOPLE & CHILDREN TO EAT.

THUS, ANYONE ADVOCATING THE SEAL HUNT IS COMPLICIT IN POISONING CANADIANS, PEOPLE, CHILDREN, NATIVE PEOPLES, EUROPEAN CITIZENS, ETC. AND FOSTERING ACTS WHICH HAVE BEEN BANNED IN MULTIPLE COUNTRIES THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE WORLD.

NO PATRIOTIC CANADIAN WOULD ADVOCATE THIS HUNT. ALL GOOD CANADIANS ARE AGAINST THE SMALL PACK OF EXTREMIST KILLERS THAT HARM NOT ONLY SEALS, BUT HARM GOOD CANADIANS, AND BRING STINK UPON THE COUNTRY'S FLAG.

[MIA MANIFOLD]

Confucius (551–479 BC) Confucius
(directed from Confusious)

JUST TO CLARIFY SO AS NOT TO CAUSE ANY CONFUSION OVER CONFUCIUS AND CONFUSIOUS .,.BOTH ARE CORRECT .. BUT YOU ARE NOT LIKE HIM AS HE BELIEVED IN MORALITY AND RESPECT.

Chinese sage whose name is given to the ethical system of Confucianism. He placed emphasis on moral order and observance of the established patriarchal family and social relationships of authority, obedience, and mutual respect. His emphasis on tradition and ethics attracted a growing number of pupils during his lifetime. .

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CANADA SEAL HUNT TO CONTINUE IN APRIL

Seals in Canada got a reprieve today, as ice kept sealing boats from reaching them to continue the annual hunt in progress in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

There is a possibility that the boats will go out tomorrow, if winds shift the ice enough.

Otherwise, the gruesome scene will begin anew in April, off the shores of Quebec and the west coast of the island of Newfoundland. At least 50,000 pups will be targeted during this phase.

In the above excellent article by Kelly Burgess, Kelly point out that the ice prevented "sealers" from slaughtering more bay seals,...what I cannot understand is why ? why dont those Canadians who have some decency and love for animals, knowing what they know about the brutality and the cruel horrible way in which seals are killed .. why dont they protest ? wy dont they try and physically stop this slaughter ? why just sit back and let it happen ? are they so brainwashed tahat they are robotic and dont care ? dont think ? do all Canadians believe that this is humane and right? or are they afraid of MZ Shea? I know she resembles a Rotteweiller , but what can she do? arrest you ? stand up for what is morally right. . . dont be downtrodden by your corrupt government.. I refuse to beleieve that all Canadians are hardened to this brutaliity .. Canada is not Red China yet . or is it ?

[Confucius]

Dear Mia the racist (aka Ms. tell it like it is)

First of all, you were the one who attacked me first by accusing all Asians are "uneducated and a cruel race". You sound like a crazy activist. And learn to use the wiki or Google. If you try to Google "CONFUSIOUS" as you spell it. It will ask you, did you mean "Confucius"?

You also stated "Just telling it like it is confucius, just the facts and the truth, that's the Australian way."
- You are accusing me of being uneducated and a cruel race? Here are some REAL FACTS:
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0883611.html
2007 SAT score for white: 1579
2007 SAT score for Asian: 1605

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0923110.html
Asians (China, S. Korea, Japan) consistently score higher in math than Australians. I used math because testing in English would give unfair advantage to native English speakers.

I believe that Asians are more educated than any other race. If I were you, I would try to get the FACTS straight before you accuse others of being uneducated.

I read on the previous post that you are the inbred of 170 years of cattle breeders. How many Aboriginal did your family kill or remove from their homes? Why don't you go protest in front of your own farm.

You are a wasting space here with your hatred.