Seals - WARNING!

[RazaBlade]

Im sure there are other ways to go about saving your fish...

[Matra et Alpine]

Im sure there are other ways to go about saving your fish...

Not against an efficient hunter like the seal !!

[NoOne]

I see things from a bit more radical point of view. Exotic animals murder is a crime as big as murdering people. I believe that more than just forbid the pelts, people who have them new, should be investigated and arrested when possible to prove they bought it recently.
I saw images of this lovely animals being taken out of their skin while alive! I can't imagine a more hideous crime. Why perpetuate this s***. Why letting al those Paris Hiltons and such contribute happily to the continuation of this crimes?
I'm not a radical who believes that we shouldn't wear true skin or felt. Sure we can, if it's taken from the cows or pigs we create and kill with dignity to our survivance.
What really makes me completely mad is to see rare animals being savagedly killed, or worst, let to die without their skin.

I'm a peaceful person, but believe this: if I was somewhere and saw a guy doing taht to a seal, and had to choose between the life of one of them, the human was with no doubt going down.
Someone who is able to do such a horrid crime doesn't matter to the world, and is probably someone who could do that to another human if well paid.

And now, waht are they doing to fool people? They are usign persian cat skin too. This isn't speculation. It's true.

I agree on all points. I'm against this practice 100%, but the point I was trying to make is; if it is continually being allowed to happen, then make it as humane as possible, find a use for whatever remains of the animal ( I suggested dog food, but I don't see a reason why the meat could not be marketed for human consumption). Someone mentioned that they are slaughtered to control the fish population, this may be so, but I thought the fur industry was the main cause ... I really don't know.

Another horrible practice, is the harvesting of shark fins .... almost as dispicable. I'm sure there are many other practices worldwide that just seem so wrong ..... moreso to us in our "so-called civilized society" where human life has little value to some people ... but we could save that topic for a different thread.

[RazaBlade]

For me, its not just what they're doing, killing innocent often young animals, but its also the way they're doing it, savagely beating them. The original picture posted is horrific, that animal must have suffered an unbelievable amount of trauma to end up that way. If the Canadian Government is so adamant that it wants these seals killed, find proper ways of doing it. Putting them to sleep with darts, how hard can it be? Probably a lot easier than jumping from place to place with a golf club and beating it to death. I hate the double standards used by the people in power.

[nota]

You know they are killed to control the population of fish right?

Just wondering about that excuse .. who 'owns' the fish population? Is it the water-dwelling seals etc, or land-bound humans including big-business fisheries?

As fish are the seal's sole food source, the balance of nature is more than capable of controlling seal population, isn't it? Even so, if effective control of herd population is the rationale for the cull then the breeders should be 'attended' to, not the (continually occuring) offspring. So its pretty clear where the real motivation lies for this barbaric 'population control'

I agree with McReis' sentiments - well said. Other species have as much right to dignity and existence as we humans do, and we need to majorly control OUR population before we can presume to 'control' (or exterminate) theirs

[Zondaboy1]

thats gross (the killing)
poor seals

[h00t_h00t]

Humans 'own' the fish, they feed more humans than seals.

[F1_Master]

aussie is as big as half the US and we dont stereotype the west/east/north/south coast (except for inbred island dwelling tasmanians, but they dont count, theyre not people!)

I cant see that pic but im assuming its someone clubbing a seal? bullets are expensive and its not like you can have a seal farm now is it? if you can think of a better equally cheap way to kill em then put it up here!

otherwise; f**k em, theyre only seals.

And I'm not talking about sterotyping in Australia.

Just because your continent is half as big as my country doesn't mean you're going to sterotype the different regions as we do. In fact, it's more of a good thing you don't.

[PsychoChimp22]

wtf would they do with all the seals anyway??
dont canadians have natural gas and cup o' noodles?!?
ffs.

[nota]

Australia only 'half as big as America' ?

"The land area of Australia is almost as great as that of the United States of America (excluding Alaska), about 50% greater than Europe (excluding the former USSR) and 32 times greater than the United Kingdom"

http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/[email protected]?OpenDocum

[Matra et Alpine]

Australia only 'half as big as America' ?

Remeber in the TV interview in the streets on the we should bomb North Korea they were pointing to Australia
You expect to much from the education system. Be thankful that those in charge have marked up maps

[scottie300z]

maybe he meant population......

i dunno, but he was quoting an aussie who did say it was half as big........

[nota]

Remeber in the TV interview in the streets on the we should bomb North Korea they were pointing to Australia
You expect to much from the education system. Be thankful that those in charge have marked up maps

I do remember & those were genuine 'walk up' interviews. Another good one was Kurgistan via cnnnn.com which has now morphed into

http://www.chaser.com.au/content/view/1601/26/
http://www.chaser.com.au/content/blogsection/16/160/

maybe he meant population......

i dunno, but he was quoting an aussie who did say it was half as big........

.. Which is why I didn't quote him directly

[clutch-monkey]

^ that first link is gold

[McReis]

You know they are killed to control the population of fish right?

Many species that are killed that way are near extinction, and still being killed. Anyway, if the only objective was to avoid destroying fish population, why would they take their skin off like they did to the one on the photo? Don't be naif!
And I don't care what reason they claim or have. I just can't accept the violence with wich they are killed. Couldn't they be carried and killed the same way cows and pigs are killed to be at our tables? With dignity and no suffering?

Those who believe that there is an acceptable reason to justify the way this animals are violently and sadisticly killed, should make a check-up to their heads.