Canada Seal Slaughter begins

Tricky said:
It just annoys me that such a great and literate comic strip has been co-opted by people who turn it into a crude and juvenile insult.
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could be worse...

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PETA.... People Eating Tasty Animals...

I'm all for it!


" I don't eat veal nor lamb"
Then slide it on over here and I'll eat it!
 
Molinaro said:
After spending the past 38 years in Canada, I can honestly say that I have never met a fellow Canadian who is oposed to the seal hunt. In fact, anytime the topic has come up there has been a fairly consensus opinion that can be described as: "As soon as deer hunting is made illegal in the US, I'll listen to why you think seal hunting should be outlawed."
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We don't bash dear over the head repeatedly until dead. Try again.

Molinaro said:
As far as the inhumane method of killing is concerned, I disagree. Everything I've read says that shooting a seal is far less likely to result in a quick death, compared to the clubbing.
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Sources?

Molinaro said:
Do some seal hunters act like lunatics and enjoy the hands on killing a bit too much? I'm sure there are some like that. Just like there's going to be nutcases in any group of people. Unfortunately, those are the only stories that get repeated. And then people like you turn it into an absolute, accusing every seal hunter of inhumane behaviour.
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Bashing a seal to death is inhuman no matter how you slice it I'm afraid.


BTW, I do not oppose "seal hunting". I oppose the systematic commercial seal slaughter which is what I posted about. If small groups of natives want to hunt seals for their meat and fur then I have no objections to that. As long as they follow the govt set rules, kill only seals that are mature and don't club them to death.
 
aggle-rithm said:
I saw a nature documentary that showed lions attacking an animal that was stuck in the mud (it was a large herd animal like a wildebeest). Since it couldn't move, there was no reason to kill it before eating it, so...they ripped it to shreds while it was still alive and conscious.

Mother Nature is a cruel, vindictive rhymes-with-witch.
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  1. If you really want to go that route and compare yourself to a lion then you must be like a lion. If you want to act like a lion and cruelly kill another animal then you need to be prepared to be treated like a lion. By bye free speech, voting rights, right to property and all of the other rights you cherish as a human. You can't have it both ways. Either you act like a lion and get treated as such or you act like a civilized and ethical human and get treated as such.
  2. Lions aren't omnivores. They must eat meat Moreover, lions aren't intelligent enough to make ethical decisions like quickly killing it's prey before eating it to prevent it's suffering. Humans do.
 
Killing other animals is okay, unless you're human. That's Dustin's position. Dustin, bashing seals IS ACTING LIKE A HUMAN.
 
Chupacabras said:
But... But... Aren't they slaughtered by HUMANS!?

(Don't dare mention "figurative", because then every argument can be argued to be figurative)

"Humane" - here lies largely the point of this discussion.




Uh... So what are seals going to do about it?

Chupa - MEXICAN - cabras.
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The seals are helpless to do anything about.
 
Dustin said:
Canada's annual "Seal slaughter" has begun. Each spring hundreds of blood thirsty locals descend onto the ice to slaughter helpless seals by shooting them or beating them to death with clubs. The Canadian seal hunt is the largest marine mammal slaughter on the planet with over a million seals killed in the last 3 years. The seals are killed for their fur and sold by the hunters. The hunters argue that seal hunting is their livelihood and they have nothing else to do, but since when was being ignorant and uneducated an excuse to slaughter helpless animals by the millions?

http://www.hsus.org/protect_seals.html


Sen. Levin Resolves to End the Canadian Seal Hunt >>

The pups watch with frightened eyes as the sealers descend on them with their clubs and guns. More>>

[qimg]http://www.hsus.org/web-files/protect_seals/seals07_moreways.jpg[/qimg]
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Think Dodo, think Passenger Pigeon, think Whales, ad. inf. (re- uneducated/ignorant).
 
Dustin said:
  1. If you want to act like a lion and cruelly kill another animal then you need to be prepared to be treated like a lion.
  2. Lions aren't intelligent enough to make ethical decisions like quickly killing it's prey before eating it to prevent it's suffering. Humans do.
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1. Why attempt to anthropomorphize a lion with "cruel" to describe how it kills things? A lion kills its prey, and its dinner, in its own special way.

Be yourself. I lion knows that without being taught.

2. How do you know what is, or isn't, ethical among lions within a given pride? Lions do have observable groupings that could be termed social or tribal. Do you find it beyond consideration for a lion to behave ethically within a leonine context?

DR
 
andyandy said:
that's because only cute animals have rights....who cares about the ugly ones? :)
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Hey don't downplay the cuteness factor. Why do you think (most) human babies are cute? So we don't leave them on a mountain side when they start crying and blow their diapers.
 
thaiboxerken said:
Killing other animals is okay, unless you're human. That's Dustin's position. Dustin, bashing seals IS ACTING LIKE A HUMAN.
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Let me put it this way, If you are totally indiscriminate in the way you treat other thinking creatures then I'm going to be totally indiscriminate in the way I treat YOU.
 
Umm... what evidence is there that seals need to be culled?

It's certainly not by arguing about protecting a cod stock that humans habitually overfish is it?

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