IFAW - Saving Harp Seals

The game never ends, when, KrakAttiK 's
whole world depends, on the turn of a friendly card:

On Sat, 17 Apr 2004 19:36:13 GMT, tsarkon wrote:

Seals make tasty meals and I look forward to consuming many of them this
season.

Keep supporting the cull and you might find that's all you're left to
eat if the world boycotts CA.

I wrote a letter to Newfoundland about this very thing and they were
very helpful. I don't like these namby-pamby sealskin coats that are
all nice and fluffy. I dress in my own punk style. They had a special
coat made up for me out of some old boiler of a Cod Inhaler they ran
over with a boat [& shot several times] It is absolutely Bee-youti-
Full! It has propeellor lacerations and more bullet holes than Sonny
Corleone. Hip & Punk, that coat has it all!



Cheerio

Yes they are good too.

You annal *******s have probably never been outside the urban life you
live. Stay in England where you belong. Because of you we have no more
Cod.

KrakAttiK wrote:
http://www.ifaw.org/ifaw/general/default.aspx?oid=21446

Saving Harp Seals



The Canadian government has announced plans to expand the seal hunt
and permit the deliberate culling of nearly one million seals over
three years... the highest level of government-sanctioned cruelty to
seals since the 1960s.



IFAW led the campaign to "Save the Seals" in the 1970's. Now we need
your help to stop this latest attack on defenseless seal pups.







IFAW Takes Action to End the Hunt
The seal hunt starts this week and IFAW is on the ice. Read our field
notes and view our photos and footage each day. Find out how you can
help stop the cruelty.
http://www.ifaw.org/ifaw/general/default.aspx?oid=82073




Seal hunt facts
Learn more about government-sanctioned cruelty in the seal hunt. And
how you can save defenseless pups from suffering.
http://www.ifaw.org/ifaw/general/default.aspx?oid=82078




Latest News
Click here to read the latest news on our campaign, in Canada and
around the world.
http://www.ifaw.org/ifaw/general/default.aspx?oid=84957




Seal Images and Video: from the IFAW Archives
Feel free to use photos and videos from IFAW's archives to decorate
your desktop and help put an end to the seal hunt in Canada.

http://www.ifaw.org/ifaw/general/default.aspx?oid=33930


Sign our
"Million Signatures
for a Million Seals"
Petition

http://www.ifaw.org/ifaw/general/default.aspx?oid=85044

The Canadian government's plan to deliberately cull the harp seal herd
has no scientific justification and is out of step with modern
science. Sign our petition to call for an end to this cruel hunt.





PETITION TO THE CANADIAN HOUSE OF COMMONS



I, the undersigned, am deeply opposed to Canada’s plan to slaughter
nearly one million seals over a three-year period - the highest quota
in history. The vast majority of these animals (95%) are just days or
weeks old and continuing to ignore the cruelty and waste inherent in
this industry is simply unacceptable. Please act immediately to end
this abuse and repair the damage to Canada's reputation as a humane
and ecologically responsible society.







Cheerio

You anal *******s have probably never been outside the urban life you
live. Stay in England where you belong. Because of you we have no more
Cod.

KrakAttiK wrote:
http://www.ifaw.org/ifaw/general/default.aspx?oid=21446

Saving Harp Seals



The Canadian government has announced plans to expand the seal hunt
and permit the deliberate culling of nearly one million seals over
three years... the highest level of government-sanctioned cruelty to
seals since the 1960s.



IFAW led the campaign to "Save the Seals" in the 1970's. Now we need
your help to stop this latest attack on defenseless seal pups.







IFAW Takes Action to End the Hunt
The seal hunt starts this week and IFAW is on the ice. Read our field
notes and view our photos and footage each day. Find out how you can
help stop the cruelty.
http://www.ifaw.org/ifaw/general/default.aspx?oid=82073




Seal hunt facts
Learn more about government-sanctioned cruelty in the seal hunt. And
how you can save defenseless pups from suffering.
http://www.ifaw.org/ifaw/general/default.aspx?oid=82078




Latest News
Click here to read the latest news on our campaign, in Canada and
around the world.
http://www.ifaw.org/ifaw/general/default.aspx?oid=84957




Seal Images and Video: from the IFAW Archives
Feel free to use photos and videos from IFAW's archives to decorate
your desktop and help put an end to the seal hunt in Canada.

http://www.ifaw.org/ifaw/general/default.aspx?oid=33930


Sign our
"Million Signatures
for a Million Seals"
Petition

http://www.ifaw.org/ifaw/general/default.aspx?oid=85044

The Canadian government's plan to deliberately cull the harp seal herd
has no scientific justification and is out of step with modern
science. Sign our petition to call for an end to this cruel hunt.





PETITION TO THE CANADIAN HOUSE OF COMMONS



I, the undersigned, am deeply opposed to Canada’s plan to slaughter
nearly one million seals over a three-year period - the highest quota
in history. The vast majority of these animals (95%) are just days or
weeks old and continuing to ignore the cruelty and waste inherent in
this industry is simply unacceptable. Please act immediately to end
this abuse and repair the damage to Canada's reputation as a humane
and ecologically responsible society.







Cheerio

You anal *******s have probably never been outside the urban life you
live. Stay in England where you belong. Because of you we have no more
Cod.

KrakAttiK wrote:
http://www.ifaw.org/ifaw/general/default.aspx?oid=21446

Saving Harp Seals



The Canadian government has announced plans to expand the seal hunt
and permit the deliberate culling of nearly one million seals over
three years... the highest level of government-sanctioned cruelty to
seals since the 1960s.



IFAW led the campaign to "Save the Seals" in the 1970's. Now we need
your help to stop this latest attack on defenseless seal pups.







IFAW Takes Action to End the Hunt
The seal hunt starts this week and IFAW is on the ice. Read our field
notes and view our photos and footage each day. Find out how you can
help stop the cruelty.
http://www.ifaw.org/ifaw/general/default.aspx?oid=82073




Seal hunt facts
Learn more about government-sanctioned cruelty in the seal hunt. And
how you can save defenseless pups from suffering.
http://www.ifaw.org/ifaw/general/default.aspx?oid=82078




Latest News
Click here to read the latest news on our campaign, in Canada and
around the world.
http://www.ifaw.org/ifaw/general/default.aspx?oid=84957




Seal Images and Video: from the IFAW Archives
Feel free to use photos and videos from IFAW's archives to decorate
your desktop and help put an end to the seal hunt in Canada.

http://www.ifaw.org/ifaw/general/default.aspx?oid=33930


Sign our
"Million Signatures
for a Million Seals"
Petition

http://www.ifaw.org/ifaw/general/default.aspx?oid=85044

The Canadian government's plan to deliberately cull the harp seal herd
has no scientific justification and is out of step with modern
science. Sign our petition to call for an end to this cruel hunt.





PETITION TO THE CANADIAN HOUSE OF COMMONS



I, the undersigned, am deeply opposed to Canada’s plan to slaughter
nearly one million seals over a three-year period - the highest quota
in history. The vast majority of these animals (95%) are just days or
weeks old and continuing to ignore the cruelty and waste inherent in
this industry is simply unacceptable. Please act immediately to end
this abuse and repair the damage to Canada's reputation as a humane
and ecologically responsible society.







Cheerio

"KrakAttiK" wrote in message
...
On Sat, 17 Apr 2004 19:36:13 GMT, tsarkon wrote:

Seals make tasty meals and I look forward to consuming many of them this
season.

Keep supporting the cull and you might find that's all you're left to
eat if the world boycotts CA.



Thanks to ******s like you, I have choosen not to go on vacation in the
Great "Hypocrite" Britian region. Instead, I will stay in Canada, and spend
my money here... Honestly, having walked this earth more then once, the
Brits are as arrogant and ignorant as the Americans anyways, I'm much
happier here.

The money saved I will take a longer vacation in Asia later this year...
Maybe I will snack on some dog or cat while I'm there.



Cheerio

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"KrakAttiK" wrote in message
...
http://www.ifaw.org/ifaw/general/default.aspx?oid=21446

Saving Harp Seals


Fri, April 16, 2004

The slaughter of the truth
By MICHAEL HARRIS -- For the Ottawa Sun




Not much has changed since that brilliant March day back in 1981 on the St.
John's waterfront when Captain Morrissey Johnson threw a Greenpeace
demonstrator off the deck of the Lady Johnson before setting sail for the
annual Newfoundland seal hunt.

I can still hear the smack. The young lady hit the wharf with a thud heard
around the world. The crowd of Newfoundlanders cheered lustily. They were
there for the traditional blessing of the fleet, wishing safe passage for
their "swilers" and they didn't appreciate the international condemnation
and humiliation that the "come-from-aways" were dishing out.

What their urban denouncers did not know is that many of the people on the
dock that day had lost family members in the annual trek to the hunt which
had been going on since 1800. In the 19th century, the seal hunt, then a
land-based harvest, accounted for a staggering one-third of Newfoundland's
exports. Much of the island's history has been written in human blood in the
twin quest for cod and seal.

To this day, seal flippers are a hot commodity on the St. John's waterfront
every spring, the main ingredient in flipper pie. Newfoundland is a place
where rural people still have their feed of moose, caribou, seal, ptarmigan,
and wild salmon according to the season. There are no sushi restaurants in
places like Harbour Grace, Twillingate, or Harbour Breton. But there is the
land and sea and everything in them.

All these years later, emotions are still running high. In the United
Kingdom, the Independent made the seal hunt its lead story under the
headline, "The Bloody Slaughter." Even the BBC intoned that up to 350,000
"baby seals" would be killed this season, a gross distortion of the facts.
And so the standoff continues. Newfoundlanders sorely resent their
vilification by animal rights activists and the protesters continue to
display an appalling ignorance and opportunistic exploitation of the seal
hunt. Brigitte Bardot may have been replaced by Paris Hilton as the poster
girl of the anti-sealing lobby, but the appeal is unchanged; a triumph of
marketing over matter.

Forgotten in the bloody pictures of "whitecoats" being clubbed to death is
the harsh reality of all animal slaughter. Whether it is chickens in a mass
production facility, cattle in a stockyard, or seals on the March ice off
Newfoundland's northeast coast, there is nothing pleasant about the
commercial harvesting of any living creature for human consumption --
regardless of what part is being consumed.

Most of our urban kill floors are dark inner sanctums the public never gets
to see. The great difference in the seal hunt is that it is an outdoor
abattoir operation involving wild animals. The blood that is spilled is
there for all to see. The impact is gruesome enough against the dazzling
white snow and ice, but when you depict the slaughter of a baby seal that
looks more like a stuffed toy than a creature in the wild it is emotionally
devastating.

It was largely because of that horrific image that the International Fund
for Animal Welfare (IFAW) was able to raise $80 million a year to fund their
anti-seal hunt protests in the 1980s -- an amount six times greater than the
entire budget of the Newfoundland Fisheries Department to run an industry
and fight back against well-financed detractors.

Newfoundlanders are appalled by the hypocrisy factor. The French could
force-feed geese to bloat their livers for foie gras, calves could be
dispatched by the thousands for their livers and veal cutlets, lambs could
be butchered for their prized rack, and cattle might be dismembered alive on
slaughterhouse assembly lines, but there weren't many photo ops (or for that
matter photographers), for those far vaster but largely accepted varieties
of death on wheels.

The icefields are another matter. Protesters documented, and in some cases,
orchestrated, the most horrific images imaginable in which Newfoundlanders
came across as sadistic brutes who routinely skinned baby seals alive for
fun and profit. The protesters were so good at public relations that by 1983
the large-vessel seal hunt in Newfoundland was closed as country after
country, including the United States, caved in to Greenpeace and the IFAW
and banned the sale of seal products within their borders.

More importantly, the real poster star of the anti-sealing campaign, the
cute and cuddly whitecoat, has not been hunted since 1987, when it was given
legal protection by the federal government -- protection that extends to
this day. Yet when the Department of Fisheries and Oceans sanctioned this
year's cull of 300,000 harp seals, the anti-sealing lobby reproduced
pictures of the same animals that are no longer being hunted to condemn a
practice that they have seriously distorted and never understood. The
U.S.-based Humane Society is taking full-page ads in big American newspapers
to urge a travel boycott on Canada -- the same group that was silent on the
destruction of migratory salmon stocks at the hands of U.S. fishermen.

The successful closing down of the annual seal hunt has been devastating to
coastal communities in Newfoundland. Traditionally, the hunt provided
fishermen with their first cash of the year and a means of outfitting
themselves for the new fishing season. Since 1992, when the cod fishery was
closed because of gross human overfishing, the intervention on behalf of the
harp and hooded seal has led to an explosion in the size of their herds at
the worst possible moment. In 1983, when the commercial hunt was closed,
there were 3.1 million harp seals and roughly 450,000 hooded seals. Today,
the herd has doubled in size, and that is bad news for Newfoundland's
decimated cod stocks.

Seals are prodigious feeders. They eat fish to the tune of 6% of their body
weight per day. Although cod comprise only 3% of the seal's diet, the size
of the herd has a deadly multiplier effect. In 1994, seals consumed 88,000
metric tonnes of cod off Newfoundland's northeast coast, compared to just
24,000 tonnes caught by the commercial fishery in the last year of the cod
fishery before the closure. The grim fact comes down to this: Whether seals
eat juvenile cod (38,000 fish to the tonne) or the cod's favorite food,
caplin, they have a profound effect on the ocean's food web when their
numbers are very high and the northern cod has been all but wiped out.
Protecting one animal in the ocean's ecosystem without understanding the
impact of the intervention on others is not compassion but tampering. For
years, the sorcerer's apprentice has been loose on the Grand Banks. Perhaps
that is why Greenpeace, traditionally a vocal opponent of the hunt, has
decided not to campaign against the cull this year.

Did the seals wipe out the northern cod? No, man did. Is every part of the
seal hunt noble? Of course not. The harvesting of animals for their penises
which are a hot aphrodisiac in China, is deplorable. (The practice has been
banned.) But for the 11,000 Newfoundlanders who still get an important part
of their income from today's limited seal hunt, they are not there to feed
China's erotic fantasies or skin baby animals alive. They are there to cling
to their bald rock and make a living with what's at hand, just as they've
always done.

Within the regulations of the hunt and the fiats of basic humanity, they
should be left alone to do it.

tsarkon wrote in message news:NGfgc.147429$Pk3.92697@pd7tw1no...
Seals make tasty meals and I look forward to consuming many of them this
season.

A-MEN! There is nothing so stimulating and satisfying as fresh killed
wild meat, whether its any one of a hundred species of fish, duck or
goose, or whether its whale, deer, kangaroo, impala, springbok or pig.
Leave the grain stuffed tasteless beef and pork for the weak of
stomach, give me wild meat any day.

Oh yeah, meat eaters are better lovers.

"Andy" wrote in message . au...
"KrakAttiK" wrote in message
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Hey ****-wit. they dont kill baby harp seals. Eben the National Geographic
says so.

I have seen you retards using those picture from the 70s still.

I am going to Canada for skiing.

Bugger the skiing. That's like being a heroin addict on ice. Climb up
high, then slide back down again.

I'm going to Canada to do some serious hunting. Nothing like a Caribou
steak on a cold Canadain winter night, washed down with a bottle of a
good dry red wine.

"William J. Wolfe" wrote in message
om...
| "Andy" wrote in message
. au...
| "KrakAttiK" wrote in message
| ...
| | http://www.ifaw.org/ifaw/general/default.aspx?oid=21446
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| | Saving Harp Seals
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| Hey ****-wit. they dont kill baby harp seals. Eben the National
Geographic
| says so.
|
| I have seen you retards using those picture from the 70s still.
|
| I am going to Canada for skiing.
|
| Bugger the skiing. That's like being a heroin addict on ice. Climb up
| high, then slide back down again.
|
| I'm going to Canada to do some serious hunting. Nothing like a Caribou
| steak on a cold Canadain winter night, washed down with a bottle of a
| good dry red wine.

Sauteered in baby harp oils, with a dash of crispy dolphin skin?

"William J. Wolfe" wrote in message
om...
..
Oh yeah, meat eaters are better lovers.

- Interesting that you should feel a need to point that out. ..

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