Sealers Trapped on the Ice in Newfoundland

Sealers are legally allowed to kill seals that are as young as 12 days old. Those ARE babies for goodness sake! Sealers may not legally be allowed to use clubs but they do anyway because the government looks the other way and protesters are not allowed to get close enough to ensure that the slaughterers are all using legal methods to kill the animals. Robert you might want to check your history as humans were not naturally omnivorous. And "nature" is meant to unfold "naturally" without human interference. Just because humans have fed up the natural flow by overfishing etc does not justify continuing to mess around with nature. Leave the animals alone and stop justifying barbaric behaviour just because it has seemingly "always" been that way.

You people are disgusting. Species do what they need to survive. Our particualr species along with millions of others around the world kill animals in order to do just that. It doesn't matter how the animals die we need them to live. I find it hard to imagine a gazelle having a better fate then a seal. Gazelle gets it's throat bitten and it slowly bleeds to death at the hands of a lion. A seal gets one swift strike to the head and it's over. Given the choice I'd take the club. You people are focusing on the wrong issue. Sure seals getting killed sucks. But at least they get to live thier lives in the wild. What about the poultry beef and prok that live their lives in cages getting pumped full of steroides until they are sent to the slaughter house? What is PETA doing to stop that injustice? Leave the seal hunt alone. It was fine until you people took your head out of your ass and did something. Please reinsert and leave us alone. To quote your most famous member Let It Be.

You're all incredibly ignorant. None of you are from Newfoundland are you? If you were you'd know that Newfoundland seal hunters haven't been permitted to actually CLUB seals since the 1970s. And seal hunters have never EVER hunted infant seals. In fact it's AGAINST THE LAW in Newfoundland to club seals to death OR to hunt baby seals. GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT. Not everyone who doesn't support the vegetarian treehugging lifestyle is evil and souless.

And meanwhile thousands of cod fish are wishing the sealers a safe return. You know why? Because just like humans eat seals seals eat cod. I'm a member of STC or Save The Cod. Lets cut down the number of these blood thirsty seals and save a dwindling cod population. So sealers return safe and continue your livelyhood the lives of countless fish are depending on it.

"Let me see if I have the following right...I read that the going rate for seal pelts this year is $62.00 low end. The hunter's expect to get 1000.00 pelts per hunter average. I read this. That is $62000.00 PLUS governmental help and what they do make fishing. That is way more than I make at my "cushy" desk job. Plus I don't have free health insurance" Well when you're risking your life far from civilization to bring the world food medical supplies clothing and keeping a ecosystem in check all in one go maybe you'll get a raise. ". Instead of beating innocent babies to bloody death why don't the hunter's stand up for themselves and tell the Canadian government to stop the commerical trawling of the oceans? If the government cares so much about these guys? Oh I get it it is so much easier to murder the innocent and weak." I agree with trawling the government should stop that. The big factoryfreezers are destroying our ecosystems... but that has little or nothing to do with the sealers. These guys are in small vessels and hunt the seals on a small scale. Also seals are not particularly weak. My own grandfather told me this story he was in a boat sealing when he sees a seal in the water. Him and his brother shoot it and it floats to the surface. Unfortunately in was too big to drag into the boat. A 30ft long seal and they're not the nicest animals either. Last comment about this part We don't hunt babies that's illegal. Poachers that do are bad but then your average sealer the ones who are now stuck in a lvie threatening situation would agree with that. "I also read that one of the sealers knew he was a man when he beat his first seal to death. This was a while ago. He was a child beating a mother who had just witnessed her pup being slaughtered. I am supposed to believe that these are good people? This is about greed and blood money. Plain and Simple." Source? Beating the mothers with children is also against sealing laaws if I'm not mistaken. As for the coming of age that only makes sense. In a society much like ours was for a looong time where you inheritied your fathers trade completing a task by yourself was a sign of manhood. This extends to hunting boatmaking trading whatever. I like how you call making a living "greed". Are you greedy because you're working at your "cushy desk job"? Just because their job happens to involving the death of some animals greed has little to do with it. It's the completely normal drive to exist comfortably the same thing that drives many of us to work. It's funny for someone who supposedly connects with these animals you don't seem to understand your own species very much.