Maritime grey sealers lose market for pelts (Harp seal hunt starts in March? Maybe not)

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/nova-scotia/story/2009/02/11/ns-hay-seals-hunt.html?ref=rss

Last Updated: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 | 3:27 PM AT

Anti-sealing activists are on standby, awaiting definitive word that a seal hunt off Cape Breton is cancelled.

Members of Humane Society International intended to observe and document the grey seal hunt on Hay Island.

The federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) hasn't closed the hunt, but sealers learned Tuesday that they don't have a buyer for their pelts.

"I think it is highly significant," said Mark Glover, director of the Humane Society International-U.K.

"There is a demand for these products around the world…. If we can close down the market for these products, obviously you take away the motivation for them being killed, and that's certainly part of our plan."

Nearly 30 sealers from Cape Breton and Prince Edward Island expected to start the harvest last week.

FULL story at link.

[Judi Lynn]

1. Funny world, isn't it, when people call the filthy slaughter of helpless creatures a "harvest?"

Someone has stretched our common language way the hell out of shape.

If only the consciousness of the whole world will be raised so well, so completely they will find their markets have disappeared, and they will have to walk away from these defenseless, intelligent animals.

How on earth can these men begin to live with their consciences, with the images of their days of clubbing and skinning animals still living playing through their inner eyes, keeping them company as they try to sleep. I'll bet they have all become heavy drinkers just to forget what they have done.

Claiming they have to torture animals to make a living for their families, as some clowns have attempted to scrawl here just doesn't have any sane parts to it.

Thank you, Omaha Steve. May a great spirit somehow find its way to protect the defenseless, the suffering creatures and people in our world. Cruelty is not an honorable way to make a living. A goodperson would never consider it.

[Thothmes]

2. Of Course, if there were no buyers for those

pelts, those people would not be out there killing them. Sorta like blaming the coal miners of Applacia for the damage to the environment that coal usage causes. If we didnt burn the stuff, they would not mine it. The sealing trade is the same, no market, no hunt. blame the well do do that have to have these pelts for their usage. JMO

[Judi Lynn]

3. They'll stop buying them if they finally accept the humiliation of having a conscience.

Consciousness is hard for people who cling to selfishness as a principle.

Wanting things doesn't give getting them a sacred value which outweighs all other considerations.

[Thothmes]

4. Agree

[Doremus]

6. May a great spirit somehow find its way to protect the defenseless, the suffering creatures

and people in our world."

Beautiful. And may it be so. :cry:

[lostinacause]

7. Are you a vegan?

[Omaha Steve]

5. Heated discussion at work today about this

At lunch, I was talking about the grey seal hunt coming to an end. A conservative R asked me how I could be against the hunt and for abortion. I replied with " How can you be pro life and pro war?" Shut him up fast.