Largest Seal Hunt In More Than Half A Century
Robair @ Mon Apr 12, 2004 8:57 pm
karra karra:
Got to agree with those in favor of the hunt on this. These cute lil' critters certainly wouldn't garner all this here discourse if they weren't so damn cute, without urban type folk the likes of BB takin' up their lil' ol' cause.
Yea, they've got big eyes and a puppy-dog nose but they are predators. You can't let predators get too numerouse in any ecosystem. I'm not a Newfie, but I bet it's VERY similar to our cyotes on the prairies. Every three years or so you have to all but declare war on the critters before they take over the entire province.
karra @ Mon Apr 12, 2004 9:00 pm
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Comparing seals to people? The true depth of your dimentia, or does it go deaper yet? That is one of the most fucked-up things I've ever heard. Borderline genocide talk.
Perspective? Ever heard of tolerance?
Comparing seals to people? The true depth of your dimentia, or does it go deaper yet? That is one of the most fucked-up things I've ever heard. Borderline genocide talk.
Perspective? Ever heard of tolerance?
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Not comparing seals to people at all - and you should know better - 'less 'der be lotsa sun in yer neck o' the woods der lad or wot eh?
Next time perhaps you'll try posting without the requisite quantity of alcohol or whatever in your stream. Genocide? That truly is ridiculous.
Next time perhaps you'll try posting without the requisite quantity of alcohol or whatever in your stream. Genocide? That truly is ridiculous.
Sorry for the double post but this should have appeared here, in this order not above the one above. . .
Rev_Blair @ Tue Apr 13, 2004 4:39 am
The second one shouldn't have appeared at all...it's nonsensical and nothing more than a personal attack.
You have suggested genocide in other posts too, Karra. Nuking Iraq, comes to mind.
GWN_Ronnie @ Tue Apr 13, 2004 8:13 am
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I bet it's VERY similar to our cyotes on the prairies.
Right on Robair!
Your lucky that those cyotes are ugly!
Do you use the cyotes for anything? With the seals we use the pelts (skins), some people keep a lot of the meat, and some people just keep the flippers for eating. The native people in Labrador use pretty much everything they can.
AdamNF you never gave me an answer for a humane way to kill an animal.
You just said that the current way was wrong again.
Sethlan @ Tue Apr 13, 2004 10:00 am
I think it's very sick...
Robair @ Tue Apr 13, 2004 10:09 am
GWN_Ronnie GWN_Ronnie:
Right on Robair!
Your lucky that those cyotes are ugly!
Do you use the cyotes for anything? With the seals we use the pelts (skins), some people keep a lot of the meat, and some people just keep the flippers for eating. The native people in Labrador use pretty much everything they can.
Your lucky that those cyotes are ugly!
Do you use the cyotes for anything? With the seals we use the pelts (skins), some people keep a lot of the meat, and some people just keep the flippers for eating. The native people in Labrador use pretty much everything they can.
You can get a littel money for the 'yote pelts. Mostly it's just done because the bigger the pack gets, the braver they get. You get a big enough pack and they'll show up right in your yard in broad daylight. Start attacking domestic dogs, cats and livestock.
Yea, they're ugly critters, especially the ones with mange. Usually you have to get a permit to shoot them, it's a permit to shoot pests, usually given out to ranchers etc. that have problems with them. But every few years the cyote population gets so high a 'free for all' is declared to get them back under control. Some people set trap lines, most just take a rifle on a snowmobile...
Tweeter @ Tue Apr 13, 2004 10:19 am
What, that people are complaining about the seal hunt or that seals are being hunted? Seals are hunted all the time....whales, too. People need to eat and there isn't a lot of capital to start new industries on The Rock. It's not as though they're going to till the place and start making canola diesel or anything.....
Sure, the seals are cute, and it's human nature to empathize with cute things....especially when they've got those big, baleful eyes. I've got to say that I'm not a huge fan of the dudes on Spike running around blasting away at Bambi on Saturday afternoons, either...so I don't watch it.
Try that, you might find it useful.
AdamNF @ Tue Apr 13, 2004 12:28 pm
Newfoundland doesnt need the seal hunt. Newfoundland doesnt need the fishery either. Maybe 20 years ago we did but not anymore.
GWN_Ronnie @ Tue Apr 13, 2004 3:04 pm
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Newfoundland doesnt need the seal hunt. Newfoundland doesnt need the fishery either. Maybe 20 years ago we did but not anymore.
Adam, please tell me how you came up with this?
The fishery, in dollar figures, is now bigger in Newfoundland then it was 20 years ago. When the cod started running low, people had to look for other species to fish too make a living.
So Adam please tell me everything you know about the fishery in Newfoundland without doing a google search first. I'm sure it won't take long.
BTW you STILL haven't told me a humane way to kill an animal as you see it. Did you miss the previous times I asked you or do you not have no idea what to say?
AdamNF @ Tue Apr 13, 2004 5:24 pm
I mean the Cod fishery.
A humane way...shoting them. Not a humane way, beating them countless times with a stick with a hook on it, skining them alive, and tearing the body apart.
GWN_Ronnie @ Tue Apr 13, 2004 7:45 pm
Ok Adam that make a little more sense, and you're right that we don't NEED it but it sure as hell wouldn't hurt to have it.
About the humane thing.
The problem with using a gun is that not everyone is perfect and sometimes if you hit the animal but do not kill it the seal will swim away and die and very slow and painful death. Not very pleasant or humane.
The great thing about using the gaff is that one hit is all it takes. If the spike doesn't enter the brain of the seal and kill it right away, the force of the blow will knock the animal old cold anyway.
Seals are very rarely skinned alive, actually I'm willing to bet that not one animal will experience that this year during the hunt. This happened years ago and was caught on tape by some animal activists. If you ever see an ad for one of these groups protesting against the hunt the video tape they use is very old. That's because there is no new tape of this happening. Why? Because it doesn't happen anymore and when it was filmed before they got 1 group of pricks that ruined it for everyone doing the job right.
karra @ Wed Apr 14, 2004 12:11 pm
All this adoo doo about a bunch of oh so cute seal pups, yet where is the outcry re the decimation of 19 million chickens on the left coast?
Each and every one of these poulets had a mother, father and maybe brothers, sisters, cousins and so on, you know - extended families.
And not a peep from any of you.
Just constant outrage at a humane and necessary cull of bambis with flippers.
Who eats seal two maybe three times a week?
Chicken? Eggs? Which one first?
AdamNF @ Wed Apr 14, 2004 2:20 pm
Well what if there was a kitten hunt. Kill and mame all the kittens.
GWN_Ronnie @ Wed Apr 14, 2004 3:00 pm
A kitten hunt adam? Realy now get serious.
There would be no reason for a kiten hunt.
There are many different reasons for the seal hunt.
Robair @ Wed Apr 14, 2004 3:27 pm
karra karra:
All this adoo doo about a bunch of oh so cute seal pups, yet where is the outcry re the decimation of 19 million chickens on the left coast?
Each and every one of these poulets had a mother, father and maybe brothers, sisters, cousins and so on, you know - extended families.
And not a peep from any of you.
Just constant outrage at a humane and necessary cull of bambis with flippers.
Each and every one of these poulets had a mother, father and maybe brothers, sisters, cousins and so on, you know - extended families.
And not a peep from any of you.
Just constant outrage at a humane and necessary cull of bambis with flippers.
That's totally different, karra. Chickens aren't cute.
That was actually a funny post karra! Good fer you!!
