Seal hunt begins; IFAW bears witness

"I R Canuck" wrote in message
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"pearl" wrote:
"I R Canuck" wrote:
"pearl" wrote:
To clarify;

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"I R Canuck" wrote in message
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The IFAW observations showed 1.66% of seals skinned alive.

Of those observed. So who's assuming that all seals are skinned
immediately? You,- when it suits you.

I meant- counting only those *observed* being skinned, which
you used to find the percentage of the total- observed and not.

Pearl, again . . .

The IFAW observed 180 seals being killed. They observed 3 skinned
alive.

3/180 = 1.66%

The seals which were skinned at a later time (remember they were
already observed being killed) are dead.

Provide evidence to support your claim if you can.

http://dict.die.net/killed/
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Kill

1. To deprive of life, animal or vegetable, in any manner or
by any means; to render inanimate; to put to death; to
slay.

http://www.ifaw.org/ifaw/dfiles/file_95.pdf
"Of these, 96 seals were shot, 56 seals were shot and then clubbed
or gaffed, 19 seals were clubbed or gaffed, and 8 seals were killed by
unknown means."

Indicates all of the seals observed were killed. They would be dead
they could not have been skinned alive.

No. Look at the Comments Violation / Abuse column.
'Shooting and leave to suffer' appears time after time.
Left to suffer until they're butchered.

Therefore, they would not have been skinned alive.

Your BS-ing.

No, I'm not.

Yes you are. Shame on you.

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"Derek.Moody" wrote in message news:ant2112430b0BxcK@half-bake
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Why? The proper, and best, place for these seals, is where they are
now. You'll be more than compensated for leaving seals alone, with
increased tourism and commerce revenue, not to mention goodwill.

You're in Ireland. Take a trip to the west coast and ask the fishermen
there what they think of seals.

What do they *think*, moody?

Of seals? They don't like them. You can go and check if you like, there's
a regular bus from Dublin. They'll take you out to look at the seals for
EUR6.50; go on, they need the money.

Haven't you been paying attention?

Go to Glengariff and take the tourist
sealwatching trip to Garnish (sp?) Island, ask the boatman how much he earns
from tourists in the summer season and how much he would earn from fishing
all year round if he were allowed to shoot those same seals.

Tell us, moody. And based on what? What he *thinks*?

Experience. They used to shoot them.

Tourism pays minimum wages and it's seasonal. Few work in the sector by
choice.

Ask the same people that have sworn to not go to Canada because of the
seal hunt whether they would if the hunt was stopped, and if they'd like to
go seal watching when they did.

You'll have to, I've never met anyone with that stance. Of course most of
the people in the Irish (or any other nation's) Tourism Industry can't
afford transatlantic sealwatching holidays - Irish sealwatching pays too
little.

Oh, they aren't going to kill them all. There will be a few left for the
watchers.

Cheerio,

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I betcha that this Pearl creature is a huge fan of Peta as well... Would
explain some of the gross stupidity being uttered here, nothing but a bunch
of regurgitated garbage.

You're either in denial, or brainwashed by pro-sealing propaganda.

Best way to cure all those idiots over there who moon over pretty little
baby seals - GIVE THEM ONE!
Then you sit back and wait until the little precious grows into 600 pounds
of mean, nasty, fish slurping blubber. If I was in charge of the
government's PR campaign I'd start up a program to let brits adopt harp
seals. Just pay the shipping cost and we'll send you as many as you want!

Why? The proper, and best, place for these seals, is where they are
now. You'll be more than compensated for leaving seals alone, with
increased tourism and commerce revenue, not to mention goodwill.

You're in Ireland. Take a trip to the west coast and ask the fishermen
there what they think of seals.

What do they *think*, moody?

Haven't you been paying attention?

Go to Glengariff and take the tourist
sealwatching trip to Garnish (sp?) Island, ask the boatman how much he earns
from tourists in the summer season and how much he would earn from fishing
all year round if he were allowed to shoot those same seals.

Tell us, moody. And based on what? What he *thinks*?

Tourism pays minimum wages and it's seasonal. Few work in the sector by
choice.

Ask the same people that have sworn to not go to Canada because of the
seal hunt whether they would if the hunt was stopped, and if they'd like to
go seal watching when they did.



I refuse to leave Canada for Europe until you bring back all of the
game animals killed by your ancestors centuries ago. And when the
Brits get out of N Ireland, when France is polite, German sloppy and
the whole stinikin' mess wakes up to terrorists. That noise you keep
hearing, the explosion of bombs set off by Muslim terrorists, that is
the alarm clock. Go ahead, keep hitting the snooze button. Spain has,
France is next on the to-do list by al Qeada

I ****ing love killing seals and will always love killing seals and
that's that. If you don't like it then stay out of my country or if you
live here then **** off and head on back to Afghanistan or where ever
the hell you came from.