Baby seal death! Oh joy!

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Honestly, like I can talk, since I'm hardly a vegetarian. But what is the point?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 23 March 2006 20:14 (twenty years ago)

"Ms Bardot said she had requested an audience with Mr Harper to discuss the issue, but had been turned down..."

WTF? it BRIDGITTE BARDOT, dude, or at least a brown saddle that used to be.

― andy --, Thursday, 23 March 2006 20:17 (twenty years ago)

Most Canadians don't really understand that the overseas perception of a typical Canuck is not as earmuff-wearing,"Eh?"-saying Greenpeace inventors, but is actually more like a cheating Hockey player pounding a baby seal with a baseball bat.

― everything, Thursday, 23 March 2006 20:21 (twenty years ago)

"But the Canadian government insists the cull is necessary to control seal numbers, and local fishermen say it gives them much-needed seasonal work.

The seal population is almost six million, nearly triple the level of the 1970s, according to the administration of Prime Minister Stephen Harper."

so many causes, so little time.

― [email protected], Thursday, 23 March 2006 20:25 (twenty years ago)

i don't know, what has a baby seal ever done for me?

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Thursday, 23 March 2006 20:28 (twenty years ago)

Baby seals are cuddly to most but they never meant shit to me.

― Jimmy Mod: GRILL ENSPEKTOR (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Thursday, 23 March 2006 20:31 (twenty years ago)

x-post -- Flopped around on the ice?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 23 March 2006 20:31 (twenty years ago)

The seal population is almost six million, nearly triple the level of the 1970s, according to the administration of Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

The government has increased the total allowable catch by 5,000, meaning that up to 325,000 harp seals can be hunted.

― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 23 March 2006 20:33 (twenty years ago)

THERE CAN BE ONLY 1 DO U SEE

― Jimmy Mod: GRILL ENSPEKTOR (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Thursday, 23 March 2006 20:34 (twenty years ago)

And you know, if it wasn't for those damned seals, the sea would still be full of fish like in the olde days.

― everything, Thursday, 23 March 2006 20:37 (twenty years ago)

Yeah but fish aren't cute.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 23 March 2006 20:39 (twenty years ago)

xpost alert, but yeah, this is such a complex ecosystem issue - not ignoring the economic issue, mind you - that I do find myself sort of pissed off with Bridgitte Bardot and her ilk. What's their argument? Is it much more than "don't kill baby seals - they are but cute innocents and don't deserve to die"? What if baby snakes were over-running New York city? I'm not advocating that killing of anything is the answer, but that there's something (us) bigger that's causing the overpopulation problem (not to mention the economics problem of people "needing" the seal hunt to support their livelihoods.) Surely there are long-term remedies that don't involve killing baby seals - boosting predator populations, less human activity in the north, for example, - and those have to be implemented starting now. But THIS YEAR the seal hunt might be the best/ONLY solution.

And no one wants a world over-run by seals. I hear they can be real assholes in traffic.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Thursday, 23 March 2006 20:43 (twenty years ago)

xpost

Neither are the seals if you read the Canadian columnists, who endlessly go on about starving seals, rotting foetuses and seal cannibalism (the cull is a civilising influence. Next: Seal Democracy).

― everything, Thursday, 23 March 2006 20:44 (twenty years ago)

So I should beware a seal al-Qaeda attack, then.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 23 March 2006 20:44 (twenty years ago)

A big problem is the cruelty involved. Some (anti-cull, for the record) vets went up and studied video and the live hunt, and found that about 50% were conscious at the time they were skinned.

I don't generally have a problem with killing animals, but it should be done with the minimum amount of cruelty necessary.

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Thursday, 23 March 2006 20:45 (twenty years ago)

Depends on the aminal

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 23 March 2006 20:47 (twenty years ago)

yes, the level of cruelty is unacceptable and those stats are sobering, i totally agree with that.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Thursday, 23 March 2006 20:48 (twenty years ago)

What about the baby humans getting clubbed? Nobody says shit about that! The baby powder industry has blood on their hands!

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 23 March 2006 20:50 (twenty years ago)

Maybe they need better training for this sort of thing, I thought the first stab was supposed to pulp the seal brains.

― mike h. (mike h.), Thursday, 23 March 2006 20:56 (twenty years ago)

What if baby snakes were over-running New York city?

You might end up with snakes on a plane...

― My Psychic Friends Are Strangely Silent (Ex Leon), Thursday, 23 March 2006 21:00 (twenty years ago)

We're on the verge of writing a Steven Seagal movie where he protects the seal babies.

"...in 'HARD TO CULL.'"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 23 March 2006 21:02 (twenty years ago)

There'd be a lot less photographic proof if those fishermen would do it under the cover of darkness.

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