This week, a great deal of attention was given to the actions of Paul McCartney and Heather McCartney, who went out onto an ice floe in Canada in order to call attention to the brutal hunting of baby seals in Canada. Let me be frank and say that I think that the McCartneys were being a bit silly. Heather McCartney crawled up alongside a white furred baby seal and gave it a big hug, while the baby’s mother made angry gestures in the background.
Heather McCartney was surprised when the baby seal tried to bite her, but she shouldn’t have been. Baby seals are not for people to hug. They are not toys or props, any more than they are fur coats.
But, as silly as the McCartneys were, the Canadian government has been sillier. Canadian law enforcement has threatened the McCartneys with a fine for illegally harassing a seal. Yet, while the McCartneys are threatened with the law for giving a silly hug to a baby seal, hunters are preparing to bash in the skulls of other baby seals with impunity.
I’m not going to go along with animal rights advocates who call upon people to stop eating meat and stop hunting for food, but I have to agree with the Humane Society of the United States that the baby seal hunt in the Canadian Arctic is way out of hand.
The Canadian government is justifying the seal hunt by saying that harp seals are eating too many cod, but if that logic were followed to its honest ends, then the Canadian government would have to open a hunting season on commercial fishing companies. It’s overfishing by humans that’s decimated Atlantic cod populations, not overeating by seals.
There’s no need for a seal hunt. People don’t need to wear fur to be warm anymore. We don’t need blubber to heat our homes or seal meat to eat. Seal fur from this hunt is going to fashion companies like Gucci, Versace, and Prada. It’s a luxury as disgusting as a Hummer.
I’m not going to get all goopy about seal babies and how cute they are. All life deserves some respect, whether it is young or old, although sometimes we need to end some life in order to protect and provide for other life. Instead of getting lovey-dovey with young animals, we need to take a look at the big picture.
At a time when the ocean’s ecology is starting to tumble out of balance, and the Arctic is being radically changed by global warming, it is unwise for humans to engage in a large-scale attack upon any part of the marine Arctic ecosystem.
We need to restrain our consumption of resources from the oceans. This is no time to start a new campaign to strip the seas of what they have to give.
You can sign a petition calling on Canada’s Prime Minister to end the seal hunts at thePetitionSite.com, and find out more about the problems with the seal hunt from the Humane Society’s Protect Seals project.
Forget the McCartneys. Forget the photographs of baby seals. This isn’t about what’s cute. It’s about doing what’s needed for the preservation of life on Earth.
Uh… Actually, they contradict themselves there, too.
When people DO decide to “cull” (kill) animals to “control numbers”, it’s not done by killing the babies, it’s done by selectively killing the adults.
Adult seals don’t have fur. Spot the motive.
That said, I think it is SERIOUSLY cute that baby seals bite. Which politician or celebrity wouldn’t you bite for trying to hug you without warning?
HareTrinity you are an absolute moron. “Adult seals don’t have fur”? are you truely that stupid? Do some more reading honey and comment when you have a clue. http://www.thesealfishery.com
my fist hits the table.
So this gets on the air does.
I said “my fist hits the table.” let me clarify that. The animals of this world are in a bad position. Lets say an elephant slammed his fist on the table for his bretheren. That would also get him and his bretheren not very far. However look at an elephant seal. doesn’t he indeed look like an elephant that had a bad day. NO AN ELEPHANT SEAL LOOKS LIKE AN ELEPHANT THAT MELTED DOWN TO AN ELEPHANT SEAL —LOCKED ON FULL AUTOMATIC FOR HIS ANIMAL BRETHREN –it looks like he had great day!!!
(Rambo like no other. when the smoke cleared…from this elephant’s gatling gun on full automatic..hey he’s an elephant seal –having a good day)
maybe we should try having a great day. without violence of course to help out our bretheren animals.
Let me make one further comment on the
above. If you notice the elephant seal
(who looks like he was an elephant that
had a good or bad day: get pictures and
compare. )Isn’t the message to us all
clear. Bull elephants are stuck in the
wild as Bachelor outcasts. Go away say
the mother elephants. By just looking at
you it is clear you have not done your
duty to your bretheren.
But for the male elephants that did this
great dead with a rrrrrrrrr-gantling gun for
their animal bretheren –going on full
automatic. well when the smoke cleared.
Ok. maybe they don’t look pretty. But read
it and weep. They live in heaven on earth.
they have a harem. live in a sleeping bag.
Party! party !party! party! Heaven on
earth!! For doing their mythical duty
for their animal bretheren.
(There are many lessons we can learn from
their looks)
But note it is mans duty to easily transform
into vegans. It takes no time at all. you just feed yourself fruits and vegatables. and you will still look pretty. that is good deal. change your
belt and shoes. (as message their..over) . And then man has to help the other animals become vegan. We better get real quick. because
we may all just MELT. nuke to g. warming.
IT IS TIME FOR BEING ON “FULL AUTO”
Ps to pat. get on it. bang the drum fast. Is
this intelegent design or what.
Yep Mr. Robertson. This topic was so introduced
on the wires as if YOU were talking trash on seals. And I was about to slam my fist through
the table. But ok. They set you up. well any-
way. Hop to it.
nature calls -and shock and awe
non violently