Seal Hunting

[Peaceful]

The Canadian Seal Hunt happens every year for the Seal's Pelts, the majority of the seals are baby's and around 80% of the time they are skinned alive, being able to feel all of the pain.



They catch around 250,000 seals a year for human use and coats



The Canadian government does nothing about this once again, showing yet again another cruel act of humanity.



Seals are generally killed with a bat with a metal knife on the end of it.

The seals know what is going on and can see they're families getting murdered.

Once again it's up to people like the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society to stop these sort of things.



Here's what happens - Don't open unless you want a good nights sleep.

Spoiler

Thoughts? Should the government put a stop to it? Or will us good citizens help put an end to it, like everything else.

Read up about the good work Sea Shepherd does here - http://www.seashepherd.org/seals/history-saving-seals.html

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[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

Ive never seen a coat made out of seal skin for sale in a store. Where do they use the coats?

Anyways it seems a little unnecessary and brutal. There is thousands of other possibilities in making jackets.

 

[Peaceful]

I'm not 100% sure where they use them, but it's most likely for the fashion industry, they also mainly use the fur. The Sea Shepherds went over there, like they do lots of times and made on using cruelty free-methods etc without killing them. Another way to save money -- Just kill them.

 

[Raven]

I don't understand how people can sleep at night after hunting for fashion or pleasure.

 

[Jazzy]

Link I wanted to share with all of you http://www.hsus.org/marine_mammals/protect_seals/resources/designers_who_use_seal_fur.html

 

[Alien]

Interesting link Jazzy, it kinda surprises me who's used it.

 

[Sam.]

Nothing should be killed if it isn't going to be eaten...

 

[xneseyx]

Nothing should be killed if it isn't going to be eaten...

if people are using every single part of it (ie: Natives and bison), then there's no problem. but the problem is that these people are just killing the seal and taking the fur, leaving everything else behind. if you did that with any other animal it would be called poaching. poaching is illegal.

 

[Peaceful]

Animal populations aren't supposed to be sustained you idiot. Seals are a necessary to ocean life, and keep populations of fish down. Besides, this hunting isn't for keeping the population down anyway, it's used for human use, once again. Get your facts straight next time.

 

[Grailknight]

Animal populations aren't supposed to be sustained you idiot.

Yes they are. Some populations do need to be kept down, lest they become a plague.

It's definitely not the case with seals, no, but Prince never claimed it was, he just asked.

 

[Peaceful]

I don't see any question mark next to Hunting seasons are here to keep animal population down to a reasonable number... therefore, he wasn't asking, he was telling.



Populations of animals shouldn't need to be kept down, they were here before humans, it's they're land, not just to have humans say what lives and what dies.



Nothing gives humans the right to till baby harps by slitting they're chests open and having they're guts flow out while they are still alive. Not even if they are trying to bring down populations as you say, there are other methods, that are quick and painless, even though it shouldn't be happening at all.

 

[Raven]

Animal populations aren't supposed to be sustained you idiot. Seals are a necessary to ocean life, and keep populations of fish down. Besides, this hunting isn't for keeping the population down anyway, it's used for human use, once again. Get your facts straight next time.

Beluga, Please refrain from name calling. Lets just a friendly debate.

 

[Peaceful]

Confused? I don't think so. These seals are in Antarctica and in the middle of large ice fields, there's no need to cull them, because they are doing no harm.



There's no reason to cull any animal, animals were supposed to be here, if anything, we should be keeping down the populations of humans.