But of course, corrupt Canada and their band of primitive, blood thirsty, seal baby killers decline the offer. After all, they love the money, but they also love to make up for their general insecurities by bludgeoning a baby animal who can’t move on the head with a primitive pick. Makes them feel strong again. Especially since they’re not man enough to get another type of job.
How amazingly gracious and unselfish Cathy Kangas is with her offer. What a great idea. I’ve often said that those who are rich and care can put their money where their mouth is and attempt to end this unnecessary brutal travesty. She is the first to do so.
Article:
Firm offers $16m to end seal cull
A US businesswoman has offered to raise $16m (£9m) for Canada to end a controversial seal hunt.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4884132.stm
Cathy Kangas, founder and head of PRAI Beauty, wrote an open letter to the prime minister on Wednesday.
But Canada, which says the cull of 325,000 harp seal pups is needed to curb numbers, has declined the offer. The cull got under way last month.
It has provoked an international outcry, with celebrities joining protesters in condemning the hunt.
"Your government has repeatedly stated that the $16m realised from the slaughter of Canadian baby seals is vital to the fishing communities of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and Newfoundland," Ms Kangas said in her letter.
"If you stop this year's hunt immediately, we will provide you with this $16m to be distributed at your discretion."
She proposes to raise the money from family, friends and animal protection groups.
But the Canadian government has turned down the offer.
"The short answer is no. We're not interested in the offer and would prefer she put the money in another worthwhile cause," a spokesman for Fisheries Minister Loyola Hearn told the AFP news agency.
While the money would replace some sealers' incomes, it would not come to the overall value of the industry, he said.
Dwindling numbers
The cull, which reportedly earns C$16.5m ($14m, £8.3m) in meat and pelt sales, is an important source of income for fishing communities in Quebec and Newfoundland that have been hit hard by dwindling fish stocks in the Atlantic.
The Canadian government increased the total allowable catch this year, saying the seal population is now almost six million, nearly triple the level of the 1970s.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper said the cull would be carried out humanely and that Canada was the victim of an "international propaganda campaign".
Some 90,000 seal pups are expected to be culled in the Gulf of St Lawrence, before the hunt moves on to Newfoundland, where thousands more will be culled.
But the hunters have been frustrated by a huge fall in the number of seals they have taken in comparison to previous years because of thinning ice caused by warm weather.
HARP SEALS
Found in north Atlantic and Arctic oceans
Feed on fish and crustaceans and spend much of year at sea
Pups born on the ice and nursed for two weeks, after which their mothers abandon them
Can be legally hunted only once their white coats darken, at about two-weeks-old
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