Seal hunt very "contentious"

Canada's Contentious Seal Hunt Begins
By ROB GILLIES – 1 day ago

TORONTO (AP) — Vessels pursuing seals maneuvered through heavy ice in the Gulf of St. Lawrence on Friday at the start of the largest marine mammal hunt in the world.

Only a few seals had been killed so far, said Fisheries and Oceans Canada spokesman Phil Jenkins said, noting that the ice had hampered about 16 vessels and kept the sealers "quite a distance from a herd."

OK -- wait a minute. Ice? What ice?

I thought we've been told that the whole North Pole is melting right before our eyes -- DUE TO GLOBAL WARMING. This isn't anywhere NEAR the North Pole -- it's off the northwest coast of the United States.

The Klown is getting mixed signals. The Klown is confused. Are you telling me the ice comes back every year? This is quite a shocker. Seriously -- the media told me that a two degree temperature change, over a hundred years, would melt the poles, flood the earth, cause massive famines, and block supermarket aisles in the pizza sections -- you know -- a really serious problem.

Animal rights groups with observer permits were expected to monitor the hunt later Friday. They say the seal hunt is cruel, difficult to monitor and ravages the seal population. First of all -- who cares if it's "difficult for you to monitor." SCREW YOU, PINHEADS.

Second of all -- Is there ANYTHING that isn't CRUEL to these morons when it comes to slaughtering animals? The answer is "NO." They do not want you to kill animals -- for ANY REASON -- and that includes wolves that kill your livestock etc. Because, if you didn't have livestock -- wolves wouldn't be bothering you -- capsice?

The fisheries department estimated the total harp seal population to be 5.9 million in 2004, the last time it conducted a survey. The government says there were about 1.8 million seals in the 1970s, and the population rebounded after Canada started managing the hunts. Hey -- Birkies -- so much for your "ravages the seal population" argument -- now STFU, jackasses.

Sealers and the fisheries department defend the hunt as sustainable, humane and well-managed, and say it provides supplemental income for isolated fishing communities that have been hurt by the decline in cod stocks.

Fishermen sell seal pelts mostly to the fashion industry in Norway, Russia and China, as well as blubber for oil, earning about $78 for each seal. The 2006 hunt brought in about $25 million.

Here's a representative pic I found while going through the news items. All the pics were of white selas like this. I guess the media wants to give you fair representation of the facts and just what exactly is going on up there -- because, as you know, they are very fair and objective and they would NEVER misrepresent any situation.

Registered hunters in Canada are not allowed to kill seal pups that have not molted their downy white fur, typically when 10 to 21 days old.

Hmmm -- can't kill white seals huh? Then why does the media show me nothing but white seals when they talk about this "contentious" hunt? And why can't the Candians hunt seals without Birkies going apeshit about it?

It's a good thing cows aren't "cute." Otherwise, I get the feeling we'd have to start a hunting season for Birkies.