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05-10-2007, 05:15 PM
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Conscript
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stop the seal assault! we must intervein!
Hello:
I would just like to let everyone know that I have a petition currently In circulation and It will be ongoing Indefinitely so as to stop the seal hunt that goes on In Canada every year, so for all those people that would like to see the Canadian seal hunt end for good and to try and stop It from happening again next year please go ahead and stop by and sign my petition.
I thank everyone who signs every signature does count and hopefully together we can end this cruelty once and for all.
Best Regards,
Elaine
Please go to this web page If you wish to support a worthy cause and pass on to everyone you know
[url=http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/yearlyhunt]
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05-10-2007, 10:20 PM
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On with the hunt.
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...stop the seal hunt that goes on In Canada every year, so for all those people that would like to see the Canadian seal hunt end for good and to try and stop It from happening again next year...
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Why stop the seal hunt? Are they an endangered species? |
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05-16-2007, 11:38 AM
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Why stop the seal hunt? Are they an endangered species?
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No good reason to stop the seal hunt. Their populations are exploding. |
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05-16-2007, 12:28 PM
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I sent it to some of my 'treehugger'' freinds. I'm pretty sure they signed it. 
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Pirates ftw! http://www.politicsforumpoliticalwor...uestion-2.html
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05-16-2007, 12:35 PM
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I don't know about Canada, but in Namibia the protest is not about the fact that seal are hunted, but the way in which it is done. It is called clubbing. Baby seals are beaten to death by long wooden clubs, and that is what people are protesting about there, asking for a more humane way.
What method is used in Canada?
AH
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05-16-2007, 01:35 PM
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That is what I understood it to be about as well. Not the hunting itself but the fact that they are clubbed to death. Why someone would go out of their way to make sure that another living thing suffers before it dies.... I don't know. I guess it makes them feel good to know that they are slowly killing something?
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05-16-2007, 01:43 PM
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Baron
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Originally Posted by Izzibeth
That is what I understood it to be about as well. Not the hunting itself but the fact that they are clubbed to death. Why someone would go out of their way to make sure that another living thing suffers before it dies.... I don't know. I guess it makes them feel good to know that they are slowly killing something?
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A few things
1) Approximately 75% of the seal harvest is done by rifles.
2) Seal clubbing is not particularly cruel. A good sealer kills the seal in the first hit--why? It's the easiest way to do it. A quick kill is the best.
From a canadian government website:: Fisheries and Aquaculture Management - Seals and Sealing in Canada
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Myth #3: The club – or hakapik – is a barbaric and inhumane tool that has no place in today’s world.
Reality: Hunting methods were studied by the Royal Commission on Seals and Sealing in Canada and it found that the clubbing of seals, when properly performed, is at least as humane as, and often more humane than, the killing methods used in commercial slaughterhouses, which are accepted by the majority of the public.
A 2002 report published in the Canadian Veterinary Journal found that the club or hakapik is an efficient tool designed to kill the animal quickly and humanely.
Sealers in the Magdalen Islands (Gulf of St. Lawrence) and on Quebec's Lower North Shore, where about 25% of the hunt occurs, use both rifles and hakapiks while sealers on the ice floes on the Front (in the waters east of Newfoundland), where 75% of the hunt occurs, primarily use rifles.
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05-16-2007, 11:21 PM
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No they are not endangered for the time being to my knowledge, and to answer your question If some hunter was clubbing you and skinning you why would we want to stop doing that?
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Why stop the seal hunt? Are they an endangered species?
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05-16-2007, 11:24 PM
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Conscript
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The human race is also exploding with people atleast people can talk seals and ALL animals can not and someone needs to speak for them they are helpless defenseless creatures.
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No good reason to stop the seal hunt. Their populations are exploding.
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05-16-2007, 11:34 PM
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Conscript
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Thanks so much
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I sent it to some of my 'treehugger'' freinds. I'm pretty sure they signed it. |
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