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Seal Clubbing--It's Not Just for Canadians
Seal clubbing season runs from July 1 to November 15 in the African nation of Namibia. This year's quota is the same as last year's--86,000! And the best part? Namibian Sealers don't care so much about international outrage as Canadian Sealers--80,000 of the Seals to be clubbed this year are nursing pups. That's right! Baby Seals!
Seals are processed for their skin, fur, and meat (except no one really eats them and the market for seal products dwindles every year).
Seal blood and waste products are rendered into Seal oil for use in quack pills and medicines.
The justification for the slaughter as laid down by Moses Maurihungirire, the director of resource management at Namibia's Ministry of Fisheries and Marine resources, is that seals eat 1/3 of Namibia's fish, which is bad for Namibian fishermen, also the slaughter creates 149 jobs. Nice!
The white stuff? After being stabbed, this baby Seal is spitting up the milk it had just suckled from its mother.
Need we say any more?
--El Tiburon
technorati tags: Africa, South Africa, Namibia, Seals, Seal Hunt, baby Seals, fishing
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I am not going to get into the merits of a vegetarian diet, but I will say this...
People should feel sad for the Seals because they are WILDLIFE. Cows, Pigs, ect. while they do feel pain, they are born and raised doomed for food. Mass slaughter of wildlife like seal is inherently and objectively objectionable to all thinking people.
Thanks for the comments, Sarah.
--Sharky
There are plenty of good sources of omega 3 that don't involve bludgeoning wildlife to death. There are also plenty of vegetable sources of omega 3 that are readily available, but if you live in some Tundra somewhere, drinking moonshine, polishing your .50 caliber rifle, and praying for your government handouts, drinking the rendered glands of pinnipeds may seem like an okay thing to do.
--Sharky
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