Super Genius
Posts: 1,110 
Location: Canada
Location: Canada
March 31st, 2008, 02:04 PM
How would you like it to be whacked hard over the head as a 'sport'!?
Norway and Canada have a new kind of tourism. Killing baby seals. They call it a 'sport'..
You want to call this a sport ?
Is he a sportsman?
Why?
You're our only hope !!!
This barbarism shouldnt be possible in our society..
Dont turn your back on us, we are defenseless
I know these images seem painful for you, but we feel the pain. We are being slaughtered and its going on RIGHT NOW...
What gives him the right to kill us? Who is he to decide about life and death?
What kind of sport is this? I didnt harm anyone. I was just swimming around..
Please help me and my friends...
You cant just ignore these images.. Keeping silent and doing nothing makes you guilty...
Please help us
Please dont leave us alone...
STOP THE KILLING OF SEALS
You can make a statement by
reposting this to get as many people as you can
to repost this.
Bring these murderers to the attention
of world leaders.
Thank you!!!!
Please couninue spreading and posting this link around.
WE DEPEND ON YOU!
How would you like it to be whacked hard over the head as a 'sport'!?
Norway and Canada have a new kind of tourism. Killing baby seals. They call it a 'sport'..
You want to call this a sport ?
Is he a sportsman?
Why?
You're our only hope !!!
This barbarism shouldnt be possible in our society..
Dont turn your back on us, we are defenseless
I know these images seem painful for you, but we feel the pain. We are being slaughtered and its going on RIGHT NOW...
What gives him the right to kill us? Who is he to decide about life and death?
What kind of sport is this? I didnt harm anyone. I was just swimming around..
Please help me and my friends...
You cant just ignore these images.. Keeping silent and doing nothing makes you guilty...
Please help us
Please dont leave us alone...
STOP THE KILLING OF SEALS
You can make a statement by
reposting this to get as many people as you can
to repost this.
Bring these murderers to the attention
of world leaders.
Thank you!!!!
Please couninue spreading and posting this link around.
WE DEPEND ON YOU!
Mass'Debater
Posts: 2,039 
Location: Atlantic Canada
Location: Atlantic Canada
March 31st, 2008, 02:30 PM
#1 - You have just spammed the same thread twice. One is all that is required.
#2 - Nobody has called this a sport, except yourself in this thread. This is the first time I heard anybody refer to it as a Sport.
#3 - It is a Hunt, not a sport.
#4 - Seals Don't Talk.
#5 - NOBODY IN CANADA OR ANYWHERE ELSE ON THIS DAMN PLANET IS PERMITTED TO HUNT PUPS, WHICH SEEMS TO MAKE UP 90% OF YOUR INFORMATION ABOVE.
So how about you get your information right next time, show some updated photos and information from recent hunts and how they are conducted, not from the 70's/80's, and if you're gonna try and propaganda the forums like this.... get your ass straight and do it right... you look like a fool.
This is just ignorant in so many ways.
#1 - You have just spammed the same thread twice. One is all that is required.
#2 - Nobody has called this a sport, except yourself in this thread. This is the first time I heard anybody refer to it as a Sport.
#3 - It is a Hunt, not a sport.
#4 - Seals Don't Talk.
#5 - NOBODY IN CANADA OR ANYWHERE ELSE ON THIS DAMN PLANET IS PERMITTED TO HUNT PUPS, WHICH SEEMS TO MAKE UP 90% OF YOUR INFORMATION ABOVE.
So how about you get your information right next time, show some updated photos and information from recent hunts and how they are conducted, not from the 70's/80's, and if you're gonna try and propaganda the forums like this.... get your ass straight and do it right... you look like a fool.
This is just ignorant in so many ways.
Mass'Debater
Posts: 2,039
Location: Atlantic Canada
Location: Atlantic Canada
March 31st, 2008, 02:31 PM
How about next time you take a walk into a nearby cattle slaughter house and see what's done in there, then come bitch and moan to us? Just because it's not done behind closed doors, it seems so cruel..... get a friggin reality check to why it is done + the proper details and stop wasting our time.
Blodied and shredded seal corpes will not touch my heart by any means.... I've seen far worse and horrible acts in the world then this tripe. Go fix those problems in the world first, then come complain about this.
How about next time you take a walk into a nearby cattle slaughter house and see what's done in there, then come bitch and moan to us? Just because it's not done behind closed doors, it seems so cruel..... get a friggin reality check to why it is done + the proper details and stop wasting our time.
Blodied and shredded seal corpes will not touch my heart by any means.... I've seen far worse and horrible acts in the world then this tripe. Go fix those problems in the world first, then come complain about this.
Member
Posts: 246
Location: Edmonton
Location: Edmonton
March 31st, 2008, 02:34 PM
Feeling a little weak kneed are you? Too much blood for your queasy stomach? Yeah, I know those images of red against a white background can be startling for a cityslicker like yourself.
So you actually believe whitecoats are still being killed. Man, PETA is doing a great job selling you this tripe.
Have you taken a walk through an abbatoir lately? Maybe your steak came from some magic processing machine in Mississauga.
Feeling a little weak kneed are you? Too much blood for your queasy stomach? Yeah, I know those images of red against a white background can be startling for a cityslicker like yourself.
So you actually believe whitecoats are still being killed. Man, PETA is doing a great job selling you this tripe.
Have you taken a walk through an abbatoir lately? Maybe your steak came from some magic processing machine in Mississauga.
World Police
Posts: 4,391
Videos: 1
Location: toranna
Videos: 1
Location: toranna
March 31st, 2008, 02:36 PM
I personally think the "hunt" is disgusting, but that's just my opinion. It's legal here in Canada and is a tradition out that way.
Stretch, cows are used for leather, no?
I personally think the "hunt" is disgusting, but that's just my opinion. It's legal here in Canada and is a tradition out that way.
Stretch, cows are used for leather, no?
Mass'Debater
Posts: 2,039
Location: Atlantic Canada
Location: Atlantic Canada
March 31st, 2008, 02:44 PM
The Seal hunt allows these people in remote areas to get some sort of income for the entire year until the next season, it helps keep the population down to a controllable level in which helps out the Cod so they can recover faster, they are hunted for much more then just their pelts, but also oils, and yes.... meat! Believe it or not, people do eat them. WTF did you think the Inuit hunted for generations for food? (Among other animals)
Unless you can present to us a logical solution to keeping their population down to a controllable level, to make the ice solid enough for the polar bears to get to them and control them themselves, a way to get the Cod back up on their fins(feet) and to supply these communities in some of the most remote locations of the country some way of living and income..... THERE IS A NEED.
Next time I would suggest you get the proper information from people who live right next door to it each year, who have to live with it and understand it's need, rather then some lame email from some tree hugging hippy who doesn't know wtf he's talking about, and also relies on outdated information that is no longer relevent and only puts a bad image to something that isn't as it is expressed above.
While you are at it, how about you look into the design and purpose of those "Clubs" and why they are used (quicker form of killing when used properly and is supposed to target the skull/brain area for a quick death.)
And at the same time, the Government of Canada has added a new rule to the hunt this year which orders those people in the hunt to cut the arteries in the flippers to bleed out and make sure they are dead before any prepping is done on them.
Added:
Kill'em all.... let God sort em out. Just because they're cute and useless, doesn't mean they need our protection.
Just see what happens if we just let them be for 10 years..... in fact tell you what. We'll just scoop them all up in a couple a hundred helicopters and dump them all where you live and you guys can deal with them. I shouldn't have where I live completely screwed up just to please the rest of the world's sobbing and ignorant ways.
Quoting Stretch
Considdering the Seal's gross population, the so-called thnning ice that their natural preditor, the Polar Bear, can not easily access their prey to keep them in check anymore.... the fact that the Cod industry is shot to hell, not just due to humans, but also these millions of seals, which in turn made many fishermen in the remote islands between Nova Scotia and Newfoundland lose most of the only income they can get and rely on for the entire year, you see no need for it?
just passing it on...it cam to me in an email.....sport or not....there is no need for it!!!!!
The Seal hunt allows these people in remote areas to get some sort of income for the entire year until the next season, it helps keep the population down to a controllable level in which helps out the Cod so they can recover faster, they are hunted for much more then just their pelts, but also oils, and yes.... meat! Believe it or not, people do eat them. WTF did you think the Inuit hunted for generations for food? (Among other animals)
Unless you can present to us a logical solution to keeping their population down to a controllable level, to make the ice solid enough for the polar bears to get to them and control them themselves, a way to get the Cod back up on their fins(feet) and to supply these communities in some of the most remote locations of the country some way of living and income..... THERE IS A NEED.
Next time I would suggest you get the proper information from people who live right next door to it each year, who have to live with it and understand it's need, rather then some lame email from some tree hugging hippy who doesn't know wtf he's talking about, and also relies on outdated information that is no longer relevent and only puts a bad image to something that isn't as it is expressed above.
While you are at it, how about you look into the design and purpose of those "Clubs" and why they are used (quicker form of killing when used properly and is supposed to target the skull/brain area for a quick death.)
And at the same time, the Government of Canada has added a new rule to the hunt this year which orders those people in the hunt to cut the arteries in the flippers to bleed out and make sure they are dead before any prepping is done on them.
Added:
Kill'em all.... let God sort em out. Just because they're cute and useless, doesn't mean they need our protection.
Just see what happens if we just let them be for 10 years..... in fact tell you what. We'll just scoop them all up in a couple a hundred helicopters and dump them all where you live and you guys can deal with them. I shouldn't have where I live completely screwed up just to please the rest of the world's sobbing and ignorant ways.
Super Genius
Posts: 1,110
Location: Canada
Location: Canada
March 31st, 2008, 03:11 PM
Only after the last tree has been cut down,
Only after the last river has been poisoned,
Only after the last fish has been caught,
Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.
Cree Indian Prophecy
Quoting Praxius
I believe hunting deer, moose etc is classed as a sport....so one assumes then that a seal hunt is also classed as a sport
#1 - You have just spammed the same thread twice. One is all that is required.
#2 - Nobody has called this a sport, except yourself in this thread. This is the first time I heard anybody refer to it as a Sport.
#3 - It is a Hunt, not a sport.
#4 - Seals Don't Talk.
#5 - NOBODY IN CANADA OR ANYWHERE ELSE ON THIS DAMN PLANET IS PERMITTED TO HUNT PUPS, WHICH SEEMS TO MAKE UP 90% OF YOUR INFORMATION ABOVE.
So how about you get your information right next time, show some updated photos and information from recent hunts and how they are conducted, not from the 70's/80's, and if you're gonna try and propaganda the forums like this.... get your ass straight and do it right... you look like a fool.
This is just ignorant in so many ways.
#2 - Nobody has called this a sport, except yourself in this thread. This is the first time I heard anybody refer to it as a Sport.
#3 - It is a Hunt, not a sport.
#4 - Seals Don't Talk.
#5 - NOBODY IN CANADA OR ANYWHERE ELSE ON THIS DAMN PLANET IS PERMITTED TO HUNT PUPS, WHICH SEEMS TO MAKE UP 90% OF YOUR INFORMATION ABOVE.
So how about you get your information right next time, show some updated photos and information from recent hunts and how they are conducted, not from the 70's/80's, and if you're gonna try and propaganda the forums like this.... get your ass straight and do it right... you look like a fool.
This is just ignorant in so many ways.
Only after the last tree has been cut down,
Only after the last river has been poisoned,
Only after the last fish has been caught,
Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.
Cree Indian Prophecy
Chief Mogrifier
Posts: 8,479
March 31st, 2008, 06:08 PM
Sealing History This is by no means a complete history of the seal hunt but is meant as a quick overview to give the reader a background of the seal hunt in Newfoundland & Labrador with a focus on the commercial seal hunt carried out off the east coast of Newfoundland and Gulf of St. Lawrence.
Long before there was an organized seal hunt early migratory fisherman began hunting the harp seal during the 1500's and the indigenous peoples hunted the harp seal as long as 4000 years ago. The European fisherman were the first to hunt the seals for economic purposes.
By the 1600's early settlers began to develop techniques to hunt the seals, the first of which was through the use of nets. The settlers would set the nets and anchor them to the shore where the migrating seals would become ensnared. The use of seal nets eventually progressed into the use of seal traps which were still nets but with some modifications to make them more effective. This became known as the landsman seal fishery and was carried on into the 1800's. The seals provided these early settlers with meat during a time of year when they would be primarily surviving off of stored foods. In the later years of the seal hunt this was transformed from food sustenance to economic sustenance.
By the early 1700's the hunt was extended by using boats and guns with 1723 marking the first time the hunt is recorded as an annual organized occurrence. During this time seal oil is highly valued with records of exports as far back as 1749. The oil is shipped back to England to be used as lamp oil, cooking oil, in soap and used in the process of leather treatment.
Fisherman began to use schooners in 1794 which marks the dawn of the annual journey to the ice flows. By this time the seal fishery is the second largest industry in Newfoundland and accounts for 30% of exports. The use of schooners also marks the dawn of the seal hunt as a true industry with merchants and companies providing and supporting the schooners.
The 1800's saw the seal fishery deeply engrained into Newfoundland culture and tradition. With over 75 years of annual hunts and Newfoundlanders migrating from all over the island to St. John's in hopes of getting a berth on one of the schooners heading out to the pack ice.
The damn seal hunt has been going on in some form for close to 400 years. If you don't like blood and gore, don't go too close to any beef slaughterhouse either because it is worse.
Maybe the seal hunt should be gradually cut back and eventually stopped, but if it was stopped entirely, it would be an ecological disaster for the cod and a financial disaster for the hunters and a lot of seals would die of starvation.
Sealing History This is by no means a complete history of the seal hunt but is meant as a quick overview to give the reader a background of the seal hunt in Newfoundland & Labrador with a focus on the commercial seal hunt carried out off the east coast of Newfoundland and Gulf of St. Lawrence.
Long before there was an organized seal hunt early migratory fisherman began hunting the harp seal during the 1500's and the indigenous peoples hunted the harp seal as long as 4000 years ago. The European fisherman were the first to hunt the seals for economic purposes.
By the 1600's early settlers began to develop techniques to hunt the seals, the first of which was through the use of nets. The settlers would set the nets and anchor them to the shore where the migrating seals would become ensnared. The use of seal nets eventually progressed into the use of seal traps which were still nets but with some modifications to make them more effective. This became known as the landsman seal fishery and was carried on into the 1800's. The seals provided these early settlers with meat during a time of year when they would be primarily surviving off of stored foods. In the later years of the seal hunt this was transformed from food sustenance to economic sustenance.
By the early 1700's the hunt was extended by using boats and guns with 1723 marking the first time the hunt is recorded as an annual organized occurrence. During this time seal oil is highly valued with records of exports as far back as 1749. The oil is shipped back to England to be used as lamp oil, cooking oil, in soap and used in the process of leather treatment.
Fisherman began to use schooners in 1794 which marks the dawn of the annual journey to the ice flows. By this time the seal fishery is the second largest industry in Newfoundland and accounts for 30% of exports. The use of schooners also marks the dawn of the seal hunt as a true industry with merchants and companies providing and supporting the schooners.
The 1800's saw the seal fishery deeply engrained into Newfoundland culture and tradition. With over 75 years of annual hunts and Newfoundlanders migrating from all over the island to St. John's in hopes of getting a berth on one of the schooners heading out to the pack ice.
The damn seal hunt has been going on in some form for close to 400 years. If you don't like blood and gore, don't go too close to any beef slaughterhouse either because it is worse.
Maybe the seal hunt should be gradually cut back and eventually stopped, but if it was stopped entirely, it would be an ecological disaster for the cod and a financial disaster for the hunters and a lot of seals would die of starvation.
Time Out
Posts: 360 
Location: The desolate but charming outback of the prairies.
Location: The desolate but charming outback of the prairies.
March 31st, 2008, 06:14 PM
Funny how appearances elicit emotion.
We slaughter millions of turkeys for Thanksgiving, but nobody seems to object. They are a homely looking creature.
But when hunters slaughter cute looking seals with big eyes, and likely no more sentience, French actresses and the bleeding heart liberals are all in an uproar.
Funny how appearances elicit emotion.
We slaughter millions of turkeys for Thanksgiving, but nobody seems to object. They are a homely looking creature.
But when hunters slaughter cute looking seals with big eyes, and likely no more sentience, French actresses and the bleeding heart liberals are all in an uproar.
Genius
Posts: 785
Location: Red Deer AB
Location: Red Deer AB
March 31st, 2008, 06:52 PM
Weren't there thousands swept out to sea from the St. Laurence (sp) a few years ago?
The buyers are the ones who should be targeted. For what the original skins sell for is probably very little compared to the final product that the rich buy.
Weren't there thousands swept out to sea from the St. Laurence (sp) a few years ago?
The buyers are the ones who should be targeted. For what the original skins sell for is probably very little compared to the final product that the rich buy.
Ponderous Intellect
Posts: 3,773
Location: In the bush somewhere near Sudbury
Location: In the bush somewhere near Sudbury
March 31st, 2008, 07:09 PM
It sort of depends on season and purpose whether Bambi and Bulwinkle are hunted or poached - for sport, survival or for commercial gain. A seal hunt is purely commercial - though the truly warped might call it bloodsport.
Woof!
Quoting Stretch
I believe hunting deer, moose etc is classed as a sport....so one assumes then that a seal hunt is also classed as a sport
It sort of depends on season and purpose whether Bambi and Bulwinkle are hunted or poached - for sport, survival or for commercial gain. A seal hunt is purely commercial - though the truly warped might call it bloodsport.
Woof!
