Originally posted by carole

IMO it is the government that is behind it all, you have to continue to petition to stop these barbaric un-necessary actions.
Does the government go out and shoot seals, no. Does the government go out and tell hunters to break the law, no. Then how is the government responsible? I will defend my country as much as I want, thank you very much. When you attack the government of a country you attack the everyone inside that country. Example when one country makes war on another country they are not just waring with the people in office they are waring with every single person who belongs to that country. I do not have to and never will petition the government on the seal hunt, the laws are fair. Why do you think seals are above other animals? Deer, bear, elk, moose, beaver, muskrat, weasle, turkey, extera, exetera are all hunted and no one complains. But the seciond seals are hunted people call it cruel. That is animal racism. As for burying my head in the sand I have known about and watched documentaries on the seal hunt for years. When I was 5 I used to watch brain sergery (my parents thought i was weird) on the Discovery Chanell. All I ever watched was animal shows, along with some medical stuff. When I see the videos of the seal hunt I see an animal being killed yes, but how is it different than a lion, cheetah, leopard, tiger, hyena, ext, killing its prey. Most preditors attack there prey cutting them open many times before they finally lach onto the neck and slowly sufocate there prey to death. If the preditor lives in a group or with babies the animal is eaten alive, while the mother/preditor sufocates it. In wild sercomstances seals are tossed around by killer whales till they die and bit once by sharks and then left to bleed to death, often with huge chunks riped out, some of these seals even make it to land and slowly die there. You are mad at the seals being killed because it is humans who are killing them. You might think humans are different than animals (I agree, but it dont help my point), but many people believe in evolution (not me) and think people come from animals specifically apes. Apes attack and eat small monkeys and birds. So if we evolved from them why is it so wrong to, in ways, act like them? If you still think I am wrong don't just state an opinion, back it up, prove to me your right.