I mentioned this before, but it’s quite clear the difference between the subsistence takes of Canadian natives and the mad-dash-for-cash brutal killing of the baby Seal killing Canadians. The killers bash in the heads and then only take the pelt, leaving the rest to waste.
Also, it seems that they’re not only brutal to baby animals, but to people as well. Due to their unabashed support from their buddies in the government that they are actually engaging in harassment and even assault (via throwing dead seal guts onto boats of those monitoring the hunt) as well as hitting the boats with their own. Very sick people. And yes, all gladly supported by the Canadian government. See, it’s who you know. If you know the right people, you can do whatever you want.
Here are a few quotes from the article below:
“Once the animals are killed, they are skinned and taken into the hunters' boats. The pelt is taken to make coats while the rest of the carcass is usually left behind.”
“And on how already affected and diminished. "It's disgusting when you stand out here and look at what the seals have been through already. They're clinging on for life as it is, thanks to the effects of global warming."
Article:
Canada hunters start killing seals, tempers flare
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By Paul DarrowSat Mar 25, 3:39 PM ET
Canadian hunters started shooting and clubbing harp seal pups on Saturday at the start of an annual hunt that is the focus of a tech-savvy protest by animal rights groups.
This year, 325,000 young seals will be killed on the ice floes off the East Coast where the animals gather.
Unusually warm weather means the floes are a fraction of their normal size and thickness, prompting hunters to kill the seals individually rather than clubbing them to death en masse as they cluster on the ice in pools of blood.
"It's slow going. The ice is not full of seals all over the place," said Roger Simon of Canada's federal fisheries ministry, which oversees the hunt.
The crack of rifle fire could be heard continually as hunters in boats shot seals as they lay on tiny floes and then dashed over to the bodies in hopes of retrieving them before they slipped off the ice and sank.
Once the animals are killed, they are skinned and taken into the hunters' boats. The pelt is taken to make coats while the rest of the carcass is usually left behind.
At one point a hunter, frustrated at the activists' presence, picked up the bloody carcass of a skinned seal and threw it at a small inflatable craft full of protesters and journalists. It hit the boat and sank.
One sealing boat steamed straight toward the journalists' craft and turned at the last moment, sending a wave crashing over the observers.
Canada says the hunt gives the local economy a crucial boost and helps keep a harp seal population of almost six million animals in check.
The Humane Society of the United States has chartered a 110-foot (30-meter) boat to follow the hunt and is putting film and videos of the killings on its Web site.
"It's disgusting when you stand out here and look at what the seals have been through already. They're clinging on for life as it is, thanks to the effects of global warming," said the society's Rebecca Aldworth.
"I'm really appalled the Canadian government continues to allow this slaughter. There's no need for anyone to be out here killing seals," she told Reuters from the hunting zone.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Canada was behaving responsibly and would enforce rules ensuring that the seals were killed humanely.
"Unfortunately here we're to some degree the victim of a bit of an international propaganda campaign," he said on Friday.
Celebrities such as former French film star Brigitte Bardot and ex-Beatle Paul McCartney called on Ottawa this week to stop the hunt.
Aldworth repeated calls for an international boycott of Canadian seafood to protest what she said was "incredible cruelty at the hunt, including dragging conscious seals across the ice with boathooks, shooting seals and leaving them to suffer in agony and skinning seals alive."
The first part of the hunt, which takes place near the Magdalen Islands in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, usually takes about 10 to 12 days to complete. This year's quotes is just over 90,000 seals.
The second and larger stage, off the coast of Newfoundland, starts on April 4.
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