On Mar 28, 3:45 pm, Old Codger
wrote:
http://www.seashepherd.org/

Sea Shepherd Announces:
Seal Defense Campaign 2008!
Sea Shepherd Crew to Shift from the Southern Ice to the Northern Ice

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Once again, the Sea Shepherd organization starts it annual fund
raising campaign by spreading lies about the seal hunt...using the
pictures of snow white cuddly seals to enrage a public....despite the
fact that those seals ARE NOT HUNTED.

Whitecoats have not been hunted for more than twenty years. The seals
taken today are older than the average chicken you roast in your oven.
Most are adults.

So, why do they still spread their lies? Cause it generates enough
revenue to keep them afloat. Before you buy into those sensationalist
lies above, do your own research.

The hunt is humane. The WWF has stopped protesting it because they've
determined the hunt is sustainable and humane.

The hunt only takes ~ one quarter of a million seals...out of a
population that exceeds 5 MILLION!!! The herd is in no danger of
extinction...even with global warming and declining ice, the seals are
expected to adapt well.

More than 90% of the seals are no longer clubbed. They are shot...just
like a deer or moose.

The entire carcass is used, providing the pelt, meat and oil (that
unlike fish oil, is free of contaminants such as mercury).

When Paul McCartney came here to protest (dragged here by his then-
wife), he went on Larry King Live to debate the Newfoundland
premier...and not only was every single one of McCartney's arguments
put to rest, McCartney didn't even know WHERE HE WAS!!! (He thought
he was in Newfoundland...he was on Prince Edward Island).

If one is going to protest this hunt then they can't be meat eaters.
The treatment of the cows, pigs and chickens in the slaughterhouses is
far worse than any seal. Chickens are strung up on a conveyor and
their throats cut so that they bleed to death as the conveyor moves.
Cows get a nail drilled through their brain. Studies have found that
clubbing seals is as humane, if not more humane, than the methods used
in commercial slaughterhouses.

So why is the Sea Shepherd and other protesters not lining up to
investigate those sites? Because they're not permitted inside.

So the seal hunt becomes an easy target with the Canadian government
foolishly allowing the protesters access to the hunt sites. Seal hunts
(including hunts for whitecoats) occur in Alaska, Siberia and
Scandinavia - so why don't you hear about them? Because their
governments do not permit protesters to view the hunt. Just like the
slaughterhouse owners.

Don't buy into these foolish anti-sealing campaigns. Do your own
research. Learn the facts of the hunt. It is humane and sustainable,
providing up to 35% of the fisher's annual income.

Save your money. Send it to a cause that really needs it. Send it to a
children's hospital, a food bank, a women's shelter. Don't send it to
an organization that has to lie to get your money.