Who buys all the baby seal skins?

[Miss Meow]

I didn't realise that clubbing baby harp seals was still legal, thriving and more popular than ever :(

One in three in Canada will be clubbed to death, mainly for the fur industry. Have the buyers not heard of microfibre?

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=04/04/05/5899382

[lovemyshiba]

That is horrible!!!
:( :( :(

Why would they bring that back after it was banned for so many years??:(

[sweet_stormy]

:( i hate that. those are my favorite type of seal :(

[G.P.girl]

that's terrible! :( :(

[Twisterdog]

From what I understand, the ban on clubbing baby seals is still in effect like it always was .... however, most people misunderstood it. It never banned killed baby seals per se ... it banned killing unweaned baby seals. And, because seal milk is so rich, baby seals nurse for only something like two weeks, during which time they are cute and white. This was the uproar in the past ... killing cute furry, nursing babies. However, as soon as the seal is weaned and begans to shed it's white furry coat, it is legal to kill.

I find it deplorable and sad as well. :(

However ... the seal population is HUGE, so the ban must have cut down on some killing, at any rate.

It's the age-old debate .... senseless slaughter or sustainable resource. Some people would argue that killing a seal for fur and meat is no different than killing a cow for leather and meat.

There was a good article about these issues in National Geographic either last month or the month before.

[RICHARD]

I don't mind clubbing baby seals....

Just two things...

I hate it when they get drunk and hang all over you and I hope they take a taxi home....no drunk driving.................


:confused:

[Miss Meow]

Originally posted by RICHARD
I don't mind clubbing baby seals....

Just two things...

I hate it when they get drunk and hang all over you and I hope they take a taxi home....no drunk driving.................


:confused:

At least they don't take up all the bar stools :p

I understand sustainable use of the earth's resources, but clubbing baby animals over the head just really sits rank in my mind. But I guess it's no worse than the non-existent life of battery hens and pigs. :(

[RICHARD]

Originally posted by Miss Meow
At least they don't take up all the bar stools :p

I understand sustainable use of the earth's resources, but clubbing baby animals over the head just really sits rank in my mind. But I guess it's no worse than the non-existent life of battery hens and pigs. :(


I might see it if they were a food source (like the pigs and hens)-
But they are skinned and they bodies are left on the ice.....

They are babies, for goodness sake!

[lizbud]

There's a big market in European countries. This link is the
same article, but with pictures.:(


http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/05/international/americas/05SEAL.html

[moosmom]

I can't believe that clubbing baby seals is still legal! :mad:

When my godmother died, my aunt gave me her full-length seal coat. I refused to wear it because of what it represented. I ended up giving it away.

Poor seals!

[Twisterdog]

Originally posted by RICHARD
I might see it if they were a food source (like the pigs and hens)-
But they are skinned and they bodies are left on the ice.....

They are babies, for goodness sake!


The native people ( how to phrase that in a politically correct manner ... Eskimos? Indians? :confused: ) do use the meat. They eat it themselves, and feed it to their sled dogs.

I doubt commercial seal hunting is ever going to go away ... hunting is never going to go away, period. It would be better, though, if perhaps these commercial hunters were required by law to deliver the meat to the people who will actually use it.

[lizbud]

A little information about seal "slaughter". I can't call it "hunting"
at all.

http://www.friendsofanimals.org/seals/index.htm


The only requirement of the canadian government is that they
be killed in a humane manner. I don't think, as do others, that
the methods used are humane. The whole practice if cruel and
brutal. :(

[lizbud]

Well, the hunt (killing) has begun. :( You tell me if this is a
"humane hunt"?. Video is available if you can bear to watch the
brutal truth of what's happening right now.


http://www.ifaw.org/ifaw/general/default.aspx?oid=562


p.s. Notice the (hunter?) stop what he's doing when he spots
the camera. :(