My ex-girlfriend, Jo, is currently in Canada, documenting in her blog the brutality and inhumanity of the commercial seal cull currently happening in that country. It's written straight from the heart and tells a gripping story, although she has yet to witness the actual barbarism of the cull itself.
If you like seals (and I don't mean wrapped around your shoulders in the form of a coat), I suggest you give it a read. She's made of stronger stuff than I am. I don't think I could witness the sights that she is about to behold and not be profoundly changed by the experience.
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Just a point of correction, what's going on out there isn't a cull in by any shape or form. Please don't perpetuate that myth. It is a commercial hunt pure and simple with the chief aim of harvesting harp seals for fur production!
Posted by Jo | Monday, 4 April 2005 at 10:14:55
Posted on Monday, 4 April 2005 at 10:14:55
I meant 'cull' in the sense of 'select and dispose of', not in the sense of 'weed out the sick'. You call it a 'hunt', but there's not much hunting involved, either. They're just lying there, defenceless.
Either way, I don't think anyone's in any doubt as to the barbarism of what's happening out there.
Posted by Ian Macdonald | Monday, 4 April 2005 at 10:26:46
Posted on Monday, 4 April 2005 at 10:26:46