bpnjensen wrote:

Ever visited a slaughterhouse?

No. Seen plenty of pix.

Are you a vegetarian?

Yes.

The seal hunt is not cruel

Bull**** it isn't. Worse, it is unnecessary...and unjust.

No more than the raising of animals for fooJakeo more than the
fishing of the oceans for food.

I agree with this - it's all quite cruel...and mostly unjust too.

Bruce Jensen

So you murder carrots and potatoes, grains, etc? To suggest that plants are
somehow "less" than animals is species-ist (racism applied to other forms
of life). Ever swatted a mosquito, taken an antibiotic or washed your
hands? I wonder how many life forms die everyday from these activities?

To say the seal hunt is unnecessary is to apply beliefs from foreign
cultures on others, a form of neo-colonialism. It is very easy to sit in a
warm building or house with all the trappings of civilisation and judge
those who live in primitive conditions, where they are trying to eke out a
life. Before you judge the seal hunt as unnecessary and unjust, visit Nfld
and Labrador and see how the people live, and how they make their living.
Many communities have no power, no centralized water source, no plumbing,
no services. People live in these areas like they have for 1000's of years
in the case of the Innu and 400 years in the case of the immigrants. In the
cold, on the rock and in the bush. Most people have only a faint grasp from
images in the media or movies such as the Shipping News. The destruction
of a people can begin with the denigration of their lifestyle, traditions
and history. It'd do many "civilized" people good to go on a hunt with a
traditional people and maybe get preached to back. As the low flying NATO
jets cause the moose to loose their pregnancies, and the environment gets
destroyed due to the trappings of "modern" civilization. You assume that
the images you have seen of sealing are accompanied by thoughts and
feelings that you or people you know would have if they undertook the hunt.
This is not it at all and very self centred.