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If PB is full of shit then so’s wikipedia, but I tend to find that encyclopedias are usually right:
@chathostuk wrote:
@forumhostpb wrote:
Of course the animal rights fraternity (in between hugging trees) will throw their collective hands up in horror screaming cruelty etc etc – but the fact is that it is a necessity in order to allow the remaining millions of seals to continue living.I think most people have an issue with the fact the seals are clubbed over the head a few times (and as a result occasionally skinned before they are dead), as opposed to the more humane single bullet through the head.
Mind you, if they used bullets I suppose the environmentalists would complain about sound pollution and discarded bullet casings, eh?
Exactly Martin. It,s not the fact that they are culled, it,s the WAY they are culled. It,s cruel and inhumane. A single bullet would be far better. Those pictures are horrific.
from the bbc
Canada’s annual seal hunt has begun, amid international appeals for an end to the controversial cull.
Up to 325,000 young harp seal pups could be killed in the coming weeks.Celebrities such as former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney and his wife have joined animal rights groups in condemning the cull as barbaric and unnecessary.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Canada was victim of an “international propaganda campaign”, and insisted the cull would be carried out humanely.
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 nurse for two weeks, after which their mothers abandon them
Can be legally hunted only once their white coats darken, at about two weeks oldThe cull, which reportedly earns C$16.5m (£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 hunt is “an annual harvest and it is based on economics… It is harvesting animals on a sustainable basis”, Roger Simone of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans told the BBC.
The Canadian government says the cull is also necessary to control seal numbers, saying the seal population is now almost six million, nearly triple the level of the 1970s.
just an excuse. As I have said.
Again, this is something I could not be swayed on, no matter how you dress it up.
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But if it can be backed up by facts and figures, how is it just an excuse?
If it was primarily about food and sustaining fish supplies etc there wouldnt be half the fuss, so they add this on to make us believe that is what it is.
Its called “sexing up” :roll:
There’s only a fuss cos people (mainly hippies who believe that if we fart the world’s gonna end) make a fuss
@sharongooner wrote:
Bullshit and you know it! It has nothing to do with overcrowding :shock:.
=D> =D>
@sharongooner wrote:
former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney and his wife have joined animal rights groups in condemning the cull as barbaric and unnecessary.
:-k
See – nothing but lies and propaganda
…..anyway…….so this baby seal walks into a club………………..
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