Canada's Worst Seal Slaughter

I totally agree with Hana Bakemono

Granted, killing baby seals isn’t the most pleasant thing to see or hear. I find them to be absolutely adorable, especially of a video I saw of a baby seal sucking its flipper like how a baby sucks on their thumb. All baby animals are cute, no argument there. However, let’s think this over. Do apples grow in Northern Canada? What about peaches, oranges, pears or any kind of vegetation you can think of, grows in northern Canada? No. The closest city they can go for food is miles away and for some, they either don’t have the money, time, transportation or stability to go into a bustling city to buy food. This nest part is going to disturb some people, so I’ll apologize early. Baby seals have very thick fur, rich meat and very thick skin. That decreases as they get older. For people who live up north, they need this to survive in the harsh, cold weather. If they kill the adults, not only is there a larger chance that they won’t survive the winter and keep their families alive, but there will also be MANY orphaned baby seals, who need their parents to teach them how to hunt and even eat fish. This also is controlling the growing population and seals can have more than one pup in a lifetime. And since their skin is so thick, shooting and stabbing them are NOT always effective. Clubbing is the only humane way to kill a seal. Keep in mind, I’m not saying all this to make it look like seal clubbing is good or anything related to it. I don’t like it, but people need to do it to survive and I bet most of them are disgusted with themselves afterwards. All I am saying is either do something efficient about it, instead of using gruesome images and videos to terrify and traumatize someone (mostly children since you seem to target them most of the time) or protesting while dressed as seals or hardly dressed at all to prove a point. The point you’re proving is making yourselves look like fools or monsters. Write a petition or letter, send it to the government or set a meeting with your local congressman. Trust me. These things are more successful than having people laugh at you during protests.

I take no pride in being a Canadian when my government defies the laws of God to be responsible stewards of the earth....we are made to serve in peace, love and compassion, we are not to slaughter and to do sin and violence against our brothers and sisters from the animal kingdom.

I just want to say I am glad that canada has stopped but I am also sad that you are blaming canada. I know its their fault but Im a canadian and I get lots of people angry with me about the seal cull. Why blame me!? I am an animal rights activist trying to STOP seal killing. I am proud of my country even though the seal cull gives us a bad name. :(

Okay, I'm against the slaughter of baby seals, adult seals would be fine. The inuit and natives also hunt seals, and they use the whole seal, not just the fur and meat. I think one of the reasons is because of the high prices for groceries in the far north like Iqaluit. They're so expensive that you can't really blame people who would prefer to live off the land. And you can hardly, grow vegetables up there because of the soil, unless you have a green house. It's also a tradition that's been going on for many years.