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Well the fox hounds are out of a job now :lol:
joking btw that wouldnt be fair play the seals cant run fast enough …..
but no i do believe if culling is necessary then fine but not like that that is pretty barbaric even for me, its not as though they are hard to catch or approach a single bullet in the head would be far more humane as you could pretty much guarantee instant death that way, but if it is infact ONLY for fashion then it shouldnt happen at all.
@~Pebbles~ wrote:
@johnboy25 wrote:
I was actually sticking to what’s been posted
so was i, you pedantic waste of board space
Oh come on, you’ve done pedantic before! Have you ever done irony? :lol:
@~Pebbles~ wrote:
anyone who condones seal hunting is sick in the head
You say this …. but the FACTS are that the culling of seals is fully authorised by the Candian Government. They are not “hunted” in the sense that they are being killed to provide some sort of gratification for the hunter – they are being “culled” (i.e. killed in substantial numbers) as an economic necessity.
Contrary to popular misconception – the majority of seals are shot, not clubbed to death. However, this doesn’t provide the tear jerking pictures that the animal rights campaigners want in order to whip up public opinion yet again. Every year at the beginning of the annual cull we get the same old pictures with the same old headlines trotted out by the same old activists.
Harp seals are not an endangered species. There are currently over 5.8 million of them and the herd is three times the size it was in the 1970s. Culling quotas are set at levels designed to keep the herd sustainable and stable.
The seal hunt supports about 15,000 sealers and their families in eastern Canada, and also brings economic benefits to remote, coastal communities where there are only limited employment opportunities.
For every 15,000 Councillor Hoseasons culled you’ll have enough ears to circle the world.
@sword wrote:
For every 15,000 Councillor Hoseasons culled you’ll have enough ears to circle the world.
It would take far more if it was Geoff the nims cock we were talking of. :lol:
@forumhostpb wrote:
So everybody is foaming at the mouth over the annual culling of seals …. but it is called a “cull” for a reason. …. because there are simply too many of them. If they weren’t ”culled” their numbers would grow out of all proportion to the stock of food (i.e. fish) upon which they feed …. nature would take its course and they would die in their many hundreds of thousands.
To prevent this and to control the seal numbers the Canadian Government has permitted the culling of 275,000 harp seals out of a current population of 5,500,000 – only 5 percent – and 8,200 hooded seals out of a population of 600,000 – only 1.36 percent.
So basically there are over 6,100,000 seals in the Gulf of St Lawrence area – culling a total of some 283,200 seals is a drop in the ocean (as it were).
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.
more fish are thrown way in the uk, than the entire seal population would use… if we simply stop eating fish for 5 years there will be enough to keep us all happy for a while.. seal hunting is a sport, not a necessity. the fur is used to wrap around people like j.lo and puff diddly. simply wrong.
Another fraudulent statistic. …. so if the entire population of the world stopped eating fish the seals could live longer and breed out of control eh???
It’s the same old rubbish evey year. Loads of sweet little fluffy white seal pups are lined up on the ice so that the annual seal cull can be exploited by the Media – egged on by the animal welfare groups who torture them with pictures of seal pups being clubbed to death. Blood stained snow makes a really great picture doesn’t it?
Every year yet another batch of well-meaning politicians and ‘B’ list celebrities are ushered over to Canada to stay in smart hotels then taken out onto the ice fields by helicopter to see the slaughter.
They come back to Europe demanding that the seal cull be banned, which keeps the donations flowing in to organisations such as the International Fund for Animal welfare.
This annual plundering of wallets depends on the continuing ignorance of the harsh realities of life in the frozen wastes of North Eastern Canada.
Remember the Inuit people??? They live there and as there are no nice organic garden crops with lovely fresh vegetables … they have to live on what nature provides both on top of the ice and under it. A significant percentage of the commercial seal cull is done by the Inuit, who kill for their own food as well as to feed their dogs.
Did you know that in 1983, an EU directive banned trade in harp seal products. As an unintended consequence the Inuit culture, which defines itself by hunting, suffered a disaster. Their suicide rate tripled and remains the highest in the world. Greenpeace eventually apologised for the hardship imposed on them.
I thought the innit people were my friends! :shock:
And since when has Alison Steadman been “b list” eh?? :twisted:
so the seals are culled to save them from themselves nowt to do with the fur or the fact they eat the fish we want to catch and sell .. fair enough
who sharon ?
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