On Mar 29, 2:24*pm, Igor wrote:
On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 14:01:47 -0700 (PDT), wrote:
Canada's annual slaughter of baby seals has begun. The Canadian seal
hunt is the largest slaughter of marine mammals in the world killing
over 1,000,000,000 seal pups for their fur over the past four years.
Despite worldwide pressure to stop this atrocity the Canadian
government continues on.

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It'd be nice to get some perspectives on this from some objective
marine biologists and from the seal hunters themselves. One can only
assume that the species isn't being overhunted if it still exists in
sufficient numbers to support an industry. What would happen to the
other wildlife in the region if the baby seals were allowed to live?

What would happen to the hunters? Would they wind up on the dole?

And what exactly is the bahavior we are supposed to regard as
unethical here? Is it the _way_ the animals are killed, or simply the
fact that they are being killed at all? If the latter, then I'm sure
the seal hunters would be willing to switch to a more humane way of
killing the animals (if the current way is indeed inhumane) in
exchange for the European embargoes to be dropped. If the former,
well, I notice there are no worldwide protests against the killing of
calfs. Is a seal's life worth more than a cow's?
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