I know we have had this debate - but I hadnt seen this vid - Canadian Sealing
 

http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2668935

Dont watch it if your are easily upset - its pretty vile.

I think they make about 8mil from this - I would like to know how much they will lose in tourist revenue. :mad:

Ever eat a cow, wear anything leather? How about toss a football around? Hmmm, wonder where this stuff comes from?

Too many seals kill the fishing industry and they are over populated. Don't get your protest panties in a bunch because of the animals high "Cuteness" factor.
90% are shot. And most people make the effort to make it as humane as possible.

Uh oh "Sir Paul" said this is bad! We better protest! The hell with the facts and seeing both sides! I'm gonna run on emotion! :helpme

The other 4,999,999 seals will miss their friend greatly im sure.

I'm married to a newfoundlander...
N'uff said.

Go eat another burger. Cows are not cute and furry so it's ok to kill them by the thousands.

Gawd, every fucking year with the uproar about seal killings. Jeezuz people, they strive to make the kills quick, it's not done with torture in mind like the treatment many other animals around the world get.

Go protest the fucking bears being tortured in china or something.

Yes, sealing is brutal, that's why I don't watch it. Same reason I don't go to the local slaughterhouse to watch cows pigs and chickens being killed.


Every fucking year this shitty debate goes on.

Isn't anyone else getting tired of it?

Get over it.

Anyone who ate a steak in the last 90 days needs to spend an hour in a slaughter house. That will get you down off your high fucking horses.

Alex

You people are alll idiots. How do you compare a cow farm to people just running around and bashing animals over the head? Not to mention some don't even die and then leave them to suffer.

I don't think they run around a cow field with a sword chopping off cows heads and missing sometimes and letting the cow suffer. These are 2 totally different things. ITS COMPLETLY INHUMANE. You people make me sick.

And NO ... I haven't had a regular steak in a long as time. When I do eat meat, I only buy from a kosher deli ... there you are assured the meat is clean and the animal was killed without pain.

Watch the video - thats why I posted it - it makes all the arguments I have seen here in this thread moot.

When I eat a steak I assume the cow has been slaughtered humanely. If I find it wasnt then I would be just as pissed and I would have something to say about it.

Lord amighty

I wouldn't bash a seal over the head for any amount of money. I don't watch footage of it either, I don't like it.

But regardless of what I like, it's going to go on every year, for several reasons ALL of which have already been mentioned ad nauseum. According to many many MANY experts there are ecological reasons to allow it to continue, albeit restricted, and it will continue to happen every year whether you cry about it or not.

You may as well deal with it.

And cows get killed, seals get killed. Both get killed as quckly as possble. The difference is cows don't hang out on ice flows.

Thank god ... someone that has a soul. You are so right. Too bad these other people here just don't have hearts or give a shit about the right way to do it.

What if someone had a death sentence, and their sentence was clubbing. This ain't the 1700' anymore people. Why do you think they put people in a bed and just pump some liquid in them and they go to sleep. If they clubbed someone to death, it would be on every news chanel and people would be going off.

Listen, I never said I had a problem with hunting for food!!!!!!!

These fucking assholes bash baby seals over the head for fur .. NOT FOOD!!

Are all you posting in this thread really that dumb? I thought higher of some of you.

I've watched video of it being done many years ago when the bleeding heart protestors first started crying about it. Back then Brigitte Bardot was the star crying the loudest.

And no it doesn't make the above arguments moot.

Cows provide leather. Pigs provide ears and chew bones for dogs.

Seal carcasses get eaten by other wildlife.


Blah blah blah.



Do you really think calling other people idiots who don't agree with you and crying on this message board is going to stop anything? Wait...who's being dumb again?

Didnt any of you see other videos about this or are you just posting to post. Sometimes they even skin the seal right there and leave their rotting bodies.

Everyone here that compares this to eating a steak is 110% completly ignorant. These baby seal bashings are for fur not food.

We should be able to disagree without the "dumb" "you're all idiots" petty bullshit,


shouldn't we?


Just checking.

I guess you missed my entire piont. I am not cool with killing animals for gifts or fun, food is one thing.

If they kill a cow to make meat for people to eat and live ... I have no problem with that. And if after that cow has had all its meat taken from it, of course I would think they should use the skin too and do something usefull with it.

You have missed the entire point .. this is about inhumane killings ... they don't eat seal meat ... well maybe a few do .. .but they are not killing these baby seals for food ... they do it for fur and money. And they do it in-humanely. THATS THE POINT!

That I agree with and for that I'm sorry. My emotions got ahold of me. I will not name call anymore.

CDSmith, I always thought you would be a sensitive person ;)

I notice none of the protestors seem to have anything to say regarding the larger ecological issue, the one where several people have pointed out that leaving the seals alone would rapidly swelll their numbers to such a degree that their fish consumption would negatively affect the fishing industry, eventually leading to massive shortages in that area of human food consumption.

By the way, speaking of fishing, those poor fish are hauled in with nets and left to die a horrible death by suffocation on the deck of fishing boats. How aweful!! Shouldn't they at least whack each fish over the head and put it out of it's misery????

Right, that's why they still do use them for food right? It is not for "fun" as one uneducated yahoo put it. And the fur, it's called using the whole animal and not letting it go to waste. Also as I staed before did anyone realize it is also a cull to try and stave off the decimation of the fishing industry? But hey thier livelyhoods and ability to feed thier family is all fun and games! (Twat holes)
And the clubbing is considered one of the more effective ways to kill them quickly with our suffering. Unfortunately it does sometimes happen. And do you really think a Cow that gets it's throat slashed isn't feeling pain?
Remember boys and girls, crack kills; not education, some of you have it backwards.

Two things ...

1 - This year was so warm that a record number of baby seals drowned to death do to ice caps melting. Sometimes nature fixes itself.

2 - Catching fish and leaving them to die is inhumane too. I haven't fished in forever and if I did, I would do it for food and I wouldn't let the thing just sit there and die. We put them in water tanks untill we get home and then just chop off their head. Its quick and not torture.

If they use it for food then why are there so many skinned seals just laying around? Please enlighten me.

I agree with cows throats being slashed .. I don't eat that. I eat kosher meat where the animal was put to sleep with an injection not a knife to the throat. Plus killing a cow with injection keeps the cows muscles from tightening up .. making the meat softer and more tender.

I always thought you had better reading skills.

Here, let me help you....

I said:But I'm not going to cry about something that the government and the industry and ecologists say is necessary and will continue every year.

At least they are now regulating the numbers killed, they weren't a few decades ago.


Maybe it would make everyone feel better if they trapped the seals, hauled them to a processing plant and beheaded them just like cattle?



And, killing for commodity, as in for food, clothing, whatever.... it's all the same. Maybe a few of you missed THAT point. In fact, some of you completely missed several points. Myself, I have already considered all points in this issue years before the interweb was even thought of by most people.

I've said my piece, no point in belaboring this any further. Fact is, we all have to deal with the fact that this is going to happen every year.

But I will you God damned idiot. Go hug a fucking tree or stick your models on a horse and leave us the fuck alone.

Will someone please start a "Save horses from the abuse of porn" campaign. I mean gosh, they don't like people sitting on their backs all day and taking fucking pictures. :321GFY

I wish it was legal to club morons.

Me too ... then we could all watch you club yourself :321GFY

P.S., the bitch in the video let that seal continue to suffer to convey her heartfelt message to your ignorant asses. If she was so compassionate she would have beat that seal to death instead of letting it choke on it's on blood. It's pretty obvious that when something is stabbed in the head with a spike it isn't going to live even if you helevac it to a fucking hospital. Eat the shit up they feed you then go home and eat your injected cow meat that was killed humanely from a cow that was miserable it's whole life.

Fucksticks.

I know .. you were a cow or horse in your last life? So you know how they feel? Wow you must be GODS cousin or something.

I do agree they should have put that seal out of its misery.

No but you must have been with your "It's ok to eat meat and wear leather but don't club the pretty seals" speech. You better believe if killing seals is wrong sticking a dirty needle in cows is wrong too.

I'm sorry but I just about peed when I read this! Only funny becuase it's true!

And just so you know. I grew up with horses and spent my summers at camps for riding and shows. Most horses love having a person with them and riding through parks and such. Maybe you should stick to things you know and not what you think.

And the fact that you would bring up a topic abou a friend of mine who was almost killed in an accident in 2005 makes you an even bigger loser.

Go back to jumping in all the threads on "domains" and get out of this one.

No it shows what a fucking tool you are. You talked about me being Gods cousin for knowing a cow doesn't like being treated like shit but now you know horses just love people? Shouldn't have to train em then, they should just be happy you're both friends. And yes, your ass plopped a naked lady up on a horses back (does the horse really like that God?) and took pictures. It's your asses if the horse does something horses do which is throw her ass off. Quit being a damn hypocrite, it doesn't fly here.

These debates always get as ugly as the issue itself.

Bottom line the animal kingdom has always suffered and will always suffer at the expense of mankind. If animals had voices, it'd be a different ballpark. But they don't sadly.

Animal welfare people are just trying to help relieve the abuses and inhumanity in any way they can. We'll never win obviously cause people will never stop eating meat, wanting leather products, using lab animals, and every othery thing that goes on.

But one thing we will win at is making the entire planet fully aware of what goes on so people at the least can make their own decisions. And that is a huge accomplishment, because most of the atrocities have always been well hidden from the public's eyes.

here's a crazy thought....if you have a problem with it, DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. Don't sit here and bitch about it on a fucking webmaster board.

Personally, I don't give a flying fuck about some fucking seal getting smashed in the face with a spiked club. Nor do I care if KFC is "mis-treating" the chickens before they are killed.

I wouldn't care if the cow I eat a steak from tonight was beaten to death by a fucking whiffle ball bat. Shit happens, and i don't care. Go ahead and call me heartless, it's true. I have BEEN to a slaughter house and to be honest, it didn't bother me one bit. Everything dies for a reason. Be it fur, food or sport. Animals are but here on earth for us to use like it or not.

Any animal doesn't like people and you must earn a level of trust with an animal. Once you do that, you are "friends".

And I didn't plop anyone on a horse. It was not my shoot and I had nothing to do with it. I went there as a friend just like I usually do when she shoots with someone new.

I've been riding horses for over 20 years and never have been thrown off ... but you know everything and know what horeses do .. they throw people off. You have no clue.

I am far from a hypocrite but you are somone that keeps running their mouth about things they don't know.

I believe this thread started out about the inhumane killings of an animal and you managed to attack me about an accident that happend in 2005. Not to mention you know nothing about horses or the accident which makes you useless.

Riding horses for 20 years makes you no more closer to knowing what they like than you did 21 years ago. Unless you are Dr. Dolittle you are talking out of your ass.

Good post .. you are very correct. You know what would be interesting, what if a new predetor came around .. whether its an alien or whatever .. but the point being something higher than us and something that hunted us. I bet a lot of people here would change their minds about humane killings. I'm sure non of them would ever want to see their friend or family member being killed with a club to the head.

You are wrong .. sorry. I was pre-vet in college, I worked in zoo's and pet stores. I've been around animals my whole life. Just because they can't speak engish doesn't mean they can't communicate and show emotions. I have had horses that kiss you and nodge you when you are next to them just because they want your attention and like you. I have been around a lot of animals that show love and affection.

You are a heartless fool. Take a year off of the internet and go spend it with animals. Maybe then you'll be able to understand this.

Don't preach to me meat eater. KRL is a vegetarian I think, you need to either commit to your cause or stfu. Lethal injected cows, ahahaha. Do you even know how kosher meat is prepared? I'm sure there are a few idiots sticking needles in cows but it has always been death by slit throat.

Not that you care, but when people make such blatantly ignornant posts like this I really lose a lot of respect for their intellect.

"The videotape by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, which shows a steer struggling to its feet and walking into a corner after its throat has been cut and its trachea and esophagus are dangling out, has caused a furor among Jewish organizations and rabbis around the world."


Kosher Slaughter (Shechitah)
This is the first component of additional costs. The slaughter is performed by a "shochet"
(a man of skill, piety and expertise).

1. Neck area is clean
2. Severing of the trachea and esophagus
3. Cut is within the proper area
4. No hesitation
5. No pressing
6. No tearing


That's it, I will have kosher meat flown in from now on!

That's hilarious coming from someone who claims to talk to his dog psychically. It is impossible to know what an animal is thinking (well for those sane enough to not talk to them with their mind) so until you do you are just guessing. Well guessing and telling us that you are right regardless of what anyone else thinks. Your dog "loves" you because you feed him and scratch his ass. Prove otherwise and I'll listen but you know it's impossible. :thumbsup

Amazing ... eveytime you are proven wrong, you try your hardest to find something else to bash on me about.

You were wrong about my friends accident
You were wrong about knowing anything about animals and their ability to communicate with people.

And just to make you happy .... I very and I mean very rarely eat red meat. I usually only eat seafood .. and yes I know there are plenty of mean fisherman too.

Again the whole point is about humame killings and what they are killing for. This isn't about horseback riding or my friend who was almost killed or vegetarians or kosher meat. If you want to hunt to put food on your table to feed your family ... then I have no problem with it. I just have a problem with people killing animals for fur ... granted some may eat seal but there are tons that are only killing for fur ... that is my problem. Do you need a link to see the video of dead skinned animals to finally understand where I'm coming from or are you going to just bring something else up and start attacking me about that?

Do you need a video of the seal carcass you keep bitching about getting eaten by fish and other animals to understand nothing is wasted? Nature takes care of that just fine, would you rather the people take the skin then take the meat too? It's better to leave the shit on the ice or in the water where it will get used. For someone that loves animals so much why do you want the hunters to take their food away so bad?

You really are don't know shit. I talk to my dogs too and we communicate. I know when they want food, when they need to take a shit, when they are sad, when they want some attention.

My dogs love me because I love them. It really is that simple. You know how I can prove it? When I lived with me ex, she feed the dogs all the time for years but who did they always come running too??? ME .. why you ask. Because I show love for my dogs ... you obviously don't understand the power of love. Its not just an emotion from people to people. Get your head out of your ass for just 2 seconds and think abou what you are saying before you say it.

Are you fucking KIDDING me? I've seen where they get kosher beef... A rabbi slowly saws through the living cow's throat while chanting a religious hymn.

It's ok though. He only eats it sometimes!

Are you fucking kidding me? Let nature be nature. Its one thing if another animal hunted the seal and ate it. Thats nature doing its thing.

But men beating seals over the head for skin is fucked up. Yes, they should take the whole thing since they killed it and use it as food to feed people. ITs not natural for humans to kill something and then just leave it for the rest of the animal population to clean up the mess.

"For someone that loves animals so much why do you want the hunters to take their food away so bad?"

That might be the stupiest comment I've ever read. You sound like you are 5. A real hunter is someone who hunts for food to feed humans. It doesn't mean you kill for fur and leave dead bodies lying around. If an animal hunts its for food. Let them hunt without the interference of mankind.