Dear Seal Hunt Protesters: Shut the F*** Up.
April 27th, 2008 by Kavan WolfeThat’s it. I can’t take it anymore. Every year there’s a fresh outcry about the seal hunt. And every year the same old bullshit arguments get dragged up.
1st Bullshit Argument: The seal hunt is barbaric.
There are four approved methods of slaughtering livestock in the US:
1. asphyxiation (you know, take away their oxygen)
2. Captive Bolt (i.e., whack ‘em in the head to knock the animal unconscious before you slice and dice it)
3. Gunshot to the head
4. Electrical (the black wire is positive, the red wire is negative).
How exactly is having your skull smashed by a club any more “barbaric” then any of these? I understand if you’re a vegetarian, and you’re against the slaughter of any animal, but if you’ve had a burger in the past year, you can shut the fuck up right now.
2nd Bullshit Argument: It’s wrong to kill animals for their fur
Well first off, people eat seal. Just because YOU don’t eat seal, doesn’t mean there isn’t a market for seal meat. Second, if you’re mad about fur, take it up with fashion designers and the people who wear the fur and leave the seal hunters out of it. And if you own any fur, you can definitely shut the fuck up.
3rd Bullshit Argument: They’re Killing BABIES!!!
No, they aren’t. That’s illegal. But the animal rights groups have been feeding you a pack of lies about seal pups being slaughtered. But you ever wonder why there are so many chickens and so few roosters? What exactly do you think happens to the male chicks? Think blender. So if you’ve had eggs in the last year, you can shut the fuck up.
Conclusion
Let me why there is such outcry about the seal hunt:
1) Seals are cute
2) Blood on snow looks dramatic
3) People have come to believe that their food comes from factories.
I’ve got news for you. If it’s good to eat, it used to be alive, and someone killed it. That’s how nature works. Up until the day they die, seals live a normal life. That’s more than you can say for the dairy cow, who spends its life locked in a cell with some of its tits hacked off so it fits the milking machine, or the steer that has it nuts lopped off so its meat will be a little more tender.
If you have a problem with the seal hunt, why don’t you wag your finger at yourself first, leave ruining someone else’s livelihood for tomorrow.
April 27th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
Agreed. also take notice people, of how they are using the blunt end of the hakapiks. As a Newfoundlander I’m quite tired of taking flak for the seal hunt, I’m not involved in it myself but I have done more then a few shift at a fish processing plant, either way the seafood industry is not light work and if people honestly could do something else they most likely would. It’s just the situation a lot of them are stuck in, we don’t exactly have lots of well paying jobs to spare around here, especially considering a lot of these people grew up in a time where they had to quit school and support the family.
April 28th, 2008 at 10:33 am
I gotta say I love the view this site provides - crass, no holds barred truthfulness. It’s about time somebody began saying things right about the hunt (besides another great site i know about), and saying it in a non-manipulative way. Congrats. I hope you make some kind of sequel article outlining some of the finer details, specifically, some of the bullshit corrupt AR groups manage to come up with (42% of seals skinned alive?). Like I said. Bullshit.
May 2nd, 2008 at 3:35 pm
I like your post Kavan, try not to hold back so much. (joke there)
The protesting of the seal hunt has always been about making money for the anti-seal protesters. Read the news article below about it. There is real big money in protesting against the seal hunt today
http://www.northernpen.ca/index.cfm?sid=129878&sc=361
May 18th, 2008 at 7:47 am
Well said, and the Vancouver bus stops with your protest signs can go FUCK THEMSELVES.
May 20th, 2008 at 8:09 am
The fur issue is interesting. If you’ve already killed a seal to eat (I’ve got nothing against that) not using its fur for clothing is just letting it go to waste. You then have to make your clothes out of something else - which pretty much means cotton. Cotton farming is one of the most environmentally destructive processes around, so you could even say that seal-fur coats are _good_ for the environment.
Killing seals purely for fur however, now that I don’t agree with.