"Especially since Canada ruled that they weren't, and changed the laws on how they could be harvested."
Canada made a few changes.
- They made it illegal to kill whitecoats (those under 2 months of age), so that opponents of the seal hunt couldn't use them in their marketing material.
- They instituted the eyeprick test (to make sure seals are dead before being skinned.
And of course, the most important change:
They made it illegal for anyone to be within 1 km of the seal hunt, so that no one can actually verify or record how the seals are killed.
This kind of change for the sake of optics, is exactly the reason Israeli courts occasionally give a nod to the Palestinians.
Canada made a few changes.
- They made it illegal to kill whitecoats (those under 2 months of age), so that opponents of the seal hunt couldn't use them in their marketing material.
- They instituted the eyeprick test (to make sure seals are dead before being skinned.
And of course, the most important change:
They made it illegal for anyone to be within 1 km of the seal hunt, so that no one can actually verify or record how the seals are killed.
This kind of change for the sake of optics, is exactly the reason Israeli courts occasionally give a nod to the Palestinians.