The EU's committee on internal market and consumer affairs approved a measure that would effectively ban the importation of all Seal products not harvested by Inuit populations. This means tough shit for the Canadian Seal Fur industry. Settle down all you freemarketeers! The Canadian Seal industry is only worth about 13 million dollars a year. It would actually be cheaper to give Canadian Seal clubbers welfare than to spend the money on lobbying firms to keep the hunt alive. There is one more final EU vote on April 1, and this will make the ban official. Three Hundred Thousand Canadian Seals will now be spared the economically-disadvantaged wrath of drunken Hakapik wielding Nuffies.

"It seems that no matter what we told them (European parliamentarians), they would still come back and say our hunt is not humane," said Canadian Fisheries Minister Gail Shea. "It's a very difficult file because of the emotions attached to it and the politics of it."

[CalgaryHerald]

It must be noted that most Canadians are against the Seal hunt. There are rumblings that Canadian Senator Mac Harb will soon bring a measure to parliament to internally ban the Seal hunt!

Ah, it is news like that that keeps me from swimming into the propeller of a cruise ship,

--Ms Sharky

Note to self--inspired by the freemarketeer comment:

Ayn Rand should have stayed in the kitchen! (That was a joke. Women should be able to reach any goal they have the talent and perseverance to achieve. Ayn Rand, on the other hand--such a bitch!)

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