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Seals 3 – Hunters 15

by Whaleoil on March 30, 2008


Some strange shit going on up on the ice that isn’t supposed to be there.

Activists from the Humane Society of the United States and the International Fund for Animal Welfare have accused sealers of not killing the little furballs humanely.

hu·mane
adj.
1. Characterized by kindness, mercy, or compassion: a humane judge.
2. Marked by an emphasis on humanistic values and concerns: a humane education.

Ok so which part of killing is humane, is it the clubbing part or the slicing their arteries under the flippers, I’m confused and so are the seal lovers. Precisely how do you humanely kill anything even humans? Then we have this little inanity;

“We filmed as a sealer struck a seal with a hakapik before it slipped into the water. The sealer tried to pull the seal out by the hind flippers but it slipped underwater anyway. This wounded seal will most likely die underwater.”

If it had stayed on the ice it would have died just the same. Apparently it is better for the seal to die by having a pick belted through its brain than to drown by drowning. Where I come from dead is dead.

Now apparently the hunters are allowed to club 275,000 seals in a season. Is anyone as perplexed as me that that seems an awfully high number for a supposedly endangered animal. So far though the seals seem to be winning, only 15 have been got. Put that in persepective when we have this comment;

“We’ve just filmed four seals being killed and not a single one was bled out before moving it,” said Sheryl Fink, a hunt observer with IFAW.

Boy, she was lucky, since the start of the season only 15 seals have been killed and they got to see four of them killed slowly, killed nontheless, as I said before dead is dead, doesn’t matter how it died.

But is there any kindness for the families of the three seal hunters killed and one missing since the hunt began, even a whisper, some words of condolence, nope, not a one. Now that would be humane.

Rest easy folks, the Sealers and the fisheries department defend the hunt and are clearly getting advice from our government because they say that the hunt is “sustainable” and well-managed, and that it provides income for isolated fishing communities damaged by the cod stock collapse.

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  • Spanishbride

    You want to talk humane with regard to human beings?

    1. Characterized by kindness, mercy, or compassion:

    At the SPCA they put unwanted dogs down with a needle ie without pain, they put them to sleep so there is some kindness and compassion in the killing of the animal.

    Unwanted human babies in the other hand are not put to sleep before they are killed oh no.

    We show our unwanted children NO compassion at all when we murder them.

    Ever watched the film the Silent scream?

    It is reality T.V alright. It shows the baby having its limbs sucked off by the abortionist using one of the common methods to dispose of unborn children.

    Yes boys and girls this small child had his/her arms and legs ripped off while he/she was still alive and yes boys and girls this SUCTION method is a common abortion method in this country.

    we show no HUMANITY at all to unwanted children. They are poisened with saline solution and if still alive when they are born early because of it the doctor takes them out of sight to put a spike behind the ear to finish them off.

    Not too unlike the baby seals but with hours of agony first.

    Yes boys and girls. We care more about animals in this sick society than we do children. Even when we dispose of them we cause them pain. That is how little we value them. Dogs have more protection than unborn babies.
    The most DANGEROUS place to be in NZ right now is a mothers womb!

  • Harpoon

    Merriam-Webster’s:

    hu·mane
    1 : marked by compassion, sympathy, or consideration for humans or animals
    2 : characterized by or tending to broad humanistic culture : humanistic

    How about the Free dictionary:
    hu·mane adj.
    1. Characterized by kindness, mercy, or compassion: a humane judge.
    2. Marked by an emphasis on humanistic values and concerns: a humane education.

    Dictionary.com:
    hu·mane
    –adjective
    1. characterized by tenderness, compassion, and sympathy for people and animals, esp. for the suffering or distressed: humane treatment of horses.
    2. of or pertaining to humanistic studies.

  • Whaleoil

    They’re killing the seals you stupid fuck, dead is dead, whether it was humane or not.

    Not matter which way anything dies I bet it isn’t painless.

    With 275,000 seals to be killed it hardly matters anyway how they are killed, bullet, spike, cutting arteries under the flippers, dead is dead.

    There is no humane way to kill.

    Humans for example kill with bullets, bombs, napalm, nuclear weapons, chemical and biological weapons, knives, baseball bats and fists. All of those could be considered humane.