Anti-Seal-hunt march in Nanaimo BC 2009-03-14

[virginmary58]

This stupid government is pretending that nothing is going around, while all Europe boycott seal products...club the sealers, too, disgrace of so called humanity...one more pie for Gail, I'll pay.

[dazzleindaiz]

SHUT YOUR ASS hammondsplains.YOU ARE A PAIN IN THE ASS IMAGINE IF YOU WERE THE SEAL.YOU DID NOT DO ANYTHING WRONG AND SOME IDIOT COMES UP TO YOU AND BASHES YOU IN THE HEAD.IF I COULD SEE YOUR UGLY FACE,I WOULD USE WHAT THEY USE AND BASH YOU UP IN A SECOND,AND I THINK THAT THESE PEOPLE IN THIS VIDEO WILL TOO LETS SEE HOW YOU FAIR.

[1huntingdog]

Joke of the day a seal walks in to a club

[hammondsplains]

FUCK ALL U ANTI SEALERS WHAT ARE U TRYING TO DO RUIN MORE OF OUR PRESCIOUS CANADIAN ECONOMY JUST FUCK OFF AND Turn the other cheek

[rebeccasaveswhales]

The seal hunt is a disgrace to humanity!

[weswsp01]

what do baby seals taste like anyways? chicken?

[AnthonyMarr]

Not even the sealers eat seal meat, since they are already stuffed on steak and what's left after their gross over-fishing of the cod. The remains of the baby seals are just left out there to rot. But if anyone is desperate to try some marine mammal meat, I'd suggest Japan and some of that red whale meat or black dolphin meat, as long as he doesn't mind ingesting a huge dose of mercury along with it.

[weswsp01]

thanks... I am a meat eater but i know there is a right and wrong way to do everything. And I think killing animals just for "fun" or fur is the lowest of the low. Thanks for taking my comment and not bashing me because of my lifestyle choice. Good luck with your efforts.

[AnthonyMarr]

I haven't forgotten that I used to eat meat myself, and I don't go back to 1998 and bash myself for it. However, I am happier with myself now that I've discontinued it. Most of my old friends still eat meat, and I do not preach at them. I just be myself, Enough said. Take care, buddy.

[markdj431]

In addition there's VIDEOTAPED evidence of sealers using illegal weapons to kill seals, hooking live seals & dragging them across ice, not bothering to do blinking reflex tests as well as skinning & bleeding of live pups (40%) DFO claims the "hunt" is "closely monitored & tightly regulated" but it involves 1000s of killers over 100s of sq miles of ice-which the DFO cant monitor or regulate effectively. VIDEO evidence of nearly 700 cruelty violations were submitted to the DFO with no charges laid

[markdj431]

According to numerous veterinary reports from 2001 to 2008-the detailed EFSA report which stated during Canadas commercial seal hunt animals suffer pain and distress, sealers do not comply with regulations, and claims by Canadian gvt that seals are killed humanely are "scientifically incorrect"- the seal "hunt" is not humane despite what the DFO claims. In 2005 data from two veterinary reports found that almost half of seal carcasses examined by veterinarians had been conscious before skinning.

[markdj431]

On cruelty issues alone the massacre must be ended-comments of Mary Richardson, expert on humane slaughter & chair of both Ontario Veterinary Medical Association & Animal Care Review Board with the Solicitor General of Ontario -"the seal hunt is inherently inhumane". She says "What I witnessed was clear evidence of unacceptable and illegal cruelty to animals. In some scenes seals with terrible head injuries are left in stockpiles of dead & dying animals. Choking on their own blood & suffering"

[kennedydive]

Furthermore, the ecologists dismantle the myth that this ctivity poses a threat to the conservation of the harp seal, with its estimated population of 5.5 million.

Since 2003, Canadas process for managing the seal hunt has been that of fisheries management by objectives, based on the principle of a precautionary approach, points out Charles-Antoine Drolet, a biologist and Vice-President of Nature Québec.

[markdj431]

More than half the seal nurseries disappeared last year because of ice loss due to global warming and up to 90% of the pups were lost. The DFO (i.e. corrupt officials) admitted themselves they can't make an accurate count. They also stated that the barbaric slaughter this year will REDUCE seals by at least 30%, ignoring their own "management" plan. Inflated "estimates" are between 4.5 and 5.5 million but outside surveys indicate far under four million, and dropping like a stone.

[kennedydive]

Global warming. You want to get into that discussion being from the US? Do you know what the Kyoto Accord is and what nation does not want to join. Do you want to guess how the air streams bring waste emissions straight up the Eastern seaboard causing extremely high cases of cancer in communities along those jet streams? Do you want to guess what country is greatly affecting the melting of those ice flows? In fact how many millions did your country kill? Drowning to death is more humane right?

[markdj431]

Canada can take much of the credit for global warming, and the non-result in the Bali talks. With the US & Japan, Canada was the most enthusiastic holdout against binding commitments. Having refused to sign Kyoto Accord, US was not allowed to attend some of the Bali meetings, leaving it to Stephen Harpers minions to run interference for Bush. 191 countries negotiating global greenhouse emission limits in Bali reached an ineffective "compromise" -no stated limits- thanks to your wonderful Harper.

[kennedydive]

So your argument is that because your country was not allowed to attend I'll find some other reason to blame another country.

I never said that we don't contribute. I'm not the one here pretending my shit doesnt stink.

[markdj431]

The US attended the Bali conference.. but in the meetings where they were blocked, Canada ran interference for the US, promoting Bush's policies. Harper was an ally of Bush.

[markdj431]

Historic high kill levels in the seal massacre pose a threat to the very survival of the harp seal population- supported by studies of world renowned biologists. Nearly 400,000 harp seals have been hunted annually by Canada & Greenland-the vast majority in Canada-the highest kill levels since 1950s. With these reported kill levels along with wounded animals who escape, more than 1/2 of all the seal pups born each year are slaughtered-even disregarding all seal pups killed from loss of ice cover

[AnthonyMarr]

A "precautionary approach" of Canadian fisheries management"? How then do they explain the collapse of cod due to overfishing? Repeat,, overfishing, not seal predation.

Before we arrogant humans took over this land, seals have been feeding on fish for millions of years, and yet, when the Europeans arrived, they were marveled by the overabundance of fish, cod very much included.

Shame on the DFO!

[kennedydive]

It sure wasn't the inland Newfoundland fishermen. Try all the EU draggers that headed over here that raped the ocean floors.

Wait a minute that's the same EU that has suddenly developed their morals.

[markdj431]

Another myth shot down. There were foreign ships before 1978 & the cod numbers dipped but then foreign ships were banished. Instead of managing the stocks the govt and investors in fishing were thinking big. Soon, the stern FACTORY-TRAWLERS, or DRAGGERS as they became known, became the MAINSTAY of Canada's Atlantic offshore fishing fleet, and the northern cod catch started as a result. By the mid-1980s, it was CANADIANS who were landing more than 250,000 tonnes of northern cod annually.

[kennedydive]

Try again.

I've seen those draggers out there long after Canada realized that what they were doing was harming the stocks.

I didn't say we had no role in it but I can count 10 foreign vessels for every Canadian vessel and that includes ones that fly the US flag.

Everyone from around the world came to where the stocks were. Don't friggin kid yourself.

[CoffinCornerX]

Really. if the Cod fishery was as important to the economic survival of the east coast committees, then why didn't Canada go to war over it? Iceland deployed her navy into the international waters surrounding the island nation and nearly went to war with England (a far more powerful nation) to protect her Cod fishery. Today the Icelandic Cod fishery is the only surviving Cod fishery on the planet. It worked.

[markdj431]

The Canadian "Draggers" hauled enormous, baglike nets, as long as a football field, held open by huge steel plates and heavy chains & rollers that plowed and scraped the ocean bottom. They would drag up whole schools of fish and anything else in the way, damaging juvenile target and non-target fish & the bottom-dwelling community. They not only destroyed critical habitiat, but they also destabilized the ecosystem of the northern cod.

[markdj431]

By 1992 the vast populations of cod, haddock, whiting and plaice were decimated by canada, putting a hundred thousand out of work. The same DFO mafia that claimed it was managing and controlling North Atlantic fish populations began the same immoral operation on seals, with the most massive and vicious assault on wildlife the world has ever seen. With that they ensured fish populations would never recover, thus once again betraying their own communities for the criminal greed of a few thugs.

[kennedydive]

The letter explains that seal-hunting is neither cruel nor inhumane, contrary to what some people claim. Reference is made in this regard to a recent study by the World Wildlife Fund, which concluded that the method used was acceptable as long as the blow with the hakapik was delivered quickly to the seals skull and the animal remained unconscious until it died.

[AnthonyMarr]

That letter means little but another piece of propaganda, albeit it one slightly more clever than the rest. However, all that you have written here does mean something, that you are in favor of killing, and that is good/bad enough for me.

[kennedydive]

With the help of supporting studies, the organization argues that this activity, as practiced by seal hunters in the Magdalen Islands and in Newfoundland, does not have the consequences decried by some European activists, foremost among them actress Brigitte Bardot.

We have to admit that the killing methods used, he continues, will not please those with sensitive feelings, but they are nevertheless the most acceptable means of getting the job done.

[AnthonyMarr]

"Getting the job done"? You are barking up the wrong tree. The "job" does not need to be done at all. In fact it should not be.

[kennedydive]

This is information off of sealfisherydotcom. I only believe half of what activist say and about the same can be said from a site that may want to promote this activity.

I'm not here to change people's minds I only want to encourage people to think for them selves instead of believing everything that is crammed down their throats.

If you have been out on the ice flows and have actually witnessed the events and have no financial or personal reasons to embellish it than your opinion is valid.

[markdj431]

Just in.. Both Spain and Ireland slapped a ban on all imports of seal products. The European committee has already voted to ban the seal trade in all 27 member states, despite Canada's best lobbying efforts. That bill goes up for approval to the entire EU assembly early next month. An EU ban will be very expensive for seal killers and deny them European ports for their shipments to China and Russia.

[AnthonyMarr]

Excellent news. I've always thought that the best strategy to stop the seal hunt is to apply pressure from beyond.

[kennedydive]

Not going to make a difference. A EU ban will not stop the hunt as stated by officials. In turn there may be reprocusions if a ban is put in place.

We have managed this fishery for over 400 years and the population is very healthy.

In our view, there is no scientific basis for the international campaign waged against this activity, which has no connection with the true nature of the treatment of animals, writes organization president Michel Bélanger in his letter to the EU.

[markdj431]

A DFO propagandist! How much are they paying you? "Repercussions?" Be careful, those sort of threats against Canada's trading partners have already been tried & have backfired badly. Those corrupt officials involved are accelerating the process of isolating Canada and damaging it's economy. Also "sealers" have been hurting with plummeting fur prices some of them shutting down completely. This has nothing to do with "tradition", except in the sense that drug dealing & prostitution are a tradition

[kennedydive]

Why is it whenever someone has an opinion different than yours you make ridiculous statements like they work for the DFO? This is a way of life here. We are as entitled to our opinion as you are. Until your country is perfect stop sticking your nose into other countries business. Looks like in the news you have your own problems that need to be dealt with before taking on everyone elses problems.

[markdj431]

whining.."stop sticking your nose in our business"- Historically the same argument has been made by countries which threaten humanity, like Sudan which kicked out foreign aid stating internal genocides are their "business" Sorry but It's responsibility of the world to interfere in crimes of this magnitude. Arctic seals have been around for millions of years, they are a world heritage & everybodys business. Fish species of the northern oceans that Canada destroyed belong to the world, not Canada

[kennedydive]

Right, but seal hunting is not a crime and until it is than mind your own business. Weather or not you want to admit it human life is general more valued than animals. If not than no one would ever be able to eat an egg as this poor life is being murdered without a chance to even be born and yet that same argument is being used for humans.

[markdj431]

People are tired of the same arguments for greed, which DFO apologists like yourself are so fond of. Destructive greed which puts world's ecologies at risk is a crime. Livestock abuse is bad enough, but hardly as far reaching as massive attacks on WILDLIFE. Attacks on any wildlife population which is an integral part of the world ecology is also a crime against humanity. The same would apply if Canadians cut down all forests or even if insect species were destroyed. The human race would die out.

[AnthonyMarr]

If an EU ban would not stop the hunt, why is Canada sending to Europe delegate after delegate to desperately try reversing the verdict?

Glad you used the word "manage" because it leads immediately to the word "mismanage".

"Fishery"? Seals are not fish.

No scientific basis to oppose the hunt? Of course there is - More seals, fewer other cod-predators, more cod. What's yours? More seals, fewer cod? Wrong.

[kennedydive]

Fishery is the term used. You farm cattle. You don't actually plant seeds and grow cattle crops.

What are the cod predators that the seals eat? I was unaware that seals ate sharks, Dog Fish. There are some other fish that eat baby cad but I believe there are some petitions being signed to prevent the slaughter and inhumane killing of baby cod through the Haddock and Pollack world.

Weather or not you like it we are a part of the food chain. And until everyone goes Vegan killing will continue.

[markdj431]

HSUS has to date persuaded almost 3,600 US businesses to participate in boycotts, including heavy hitters Publix, Whole Foods, WinCo Foods, Lowes Foods & Harris Teeter with combined sales in 10s of billions and many smaller, seafood-driven ones. Sealing creates less than 1% of value of the East coast fishery. Great business plan, Canada, sacrifice 99% for the sake of 1%. The cost of the massive DFO seal-hunt bureaucracy is far more than $1,000 a year earned by 2000 sealers killing 285,000 seals

[markdj431]

Then there are boycotts. There is the inflation adjusted $465-million drop in the value of Canadian exports of snow crabs since April 2005, the main seafood export to the US from Canadas sealing provinces. The value of snow crab exports has nearly halved from 2004, the year prior to the boycott.

[markdj431]

When Sullivan flew on "seal business" to five European capitals this January, the airfare alone was $10,270.80. DFOs Kevin Stringer flew to Paris for $4,459.65 on Sept. 5, 2007. Of course, this is nothing compared with the $16,025.25 spent on airfare to Australia and New Zealand by the DFOs director general of "economic analysis". Top hotels, wines, meals and support staff, this adds up to a massively expensive vacation trips for the corrupt politicans involved in the "sealing" scam.

[AnthonyMarr]

Hey Mark,

Thanks for all this great info!

I was thinking, while reading your posts, that again the gov has the inside track. They should give us $10,270.80 as an equalizer!

[markdj431]

The DFO, since at least 2003, has been flying high-level delegations to Europe to argue against the bans. Last year, there were at least six such expensive junkets. For example, on March 27, 2007, a 17-person delegation was dispatched to the British Parliament for a meeting attended by only 5 British MPs. Last month, 7Canadians, including Loyola Sullivan, ambassador for fisheries conservation, the Premier of Nunavut and a Newfoundland Cabinet minister flew to four European capitals for a week.

[markdj431]

Canada has taken Holland and Belgium to the World Trade Organization in Geneva. Aside from being extremely expensive, it jeopardizes Canada's relationship with two countries with which Canada has a trade surplus. $5.2-million of raw seal products constitutes less than 1/1,000 of what Canada exports to Europe.

[markdj431]

the drowning of four sealers last year while being "rescued" by Coast Guard, resulted in cost of an unsuccessful week-long 2,800 sq mile search for one of the drowned & his boat involving patrol planes, helicopters, 3 icebreakers. millions are spent every year trying to counter bans on seal products. NAFTA partners & 4 European countries have imposed bans. 4 countries have announced intentions to do so. Italy & Luxembourg have suspended imports. EU voted to ban seal trade in all 27 member states

[markdj431]

This $6-million costs Canadians at least up to 10 times as much and does so year after year. First of all, there is the cost of deploying Coast Guard to the seal hunt for seven weeks a year. Just one ice breaking vessel costs $50,000 a day to operate in winter. Last year it involved 10 vessels, many of them icebreakers, helicopters and patrol planes. DFO calculated the extra CCG costs due to heavy ice at $3.41-million. It also paid $7.9-million to owners of boats damaged by ice.

[markdj431]

NO sealer makes a living off of this. It's EXTRA off season income for a small gang of thugs, with the bonus of at least 6 times what they earn in payouts and welfare checks from corrupt Canadian officials. A large proportion of "sealers" are plagued with alcohol, drug and crime problems, since they won't work the rest of the year in the main industry, the various shellfish fisheries of the East Coast. Without the benefits and govt handouts this is no more than 15-20% of an individual's income.

[markdj431]

Propaganda from killers. According to DFO the justification for the massacre is to provide "economic opportunities" for Canadas east coast communities. Last year, on its Web site, this was only $12-million, the value of all seal pelts taken. 1/2 of that is eaten up by expenses so at most, $6 million went to sealers themselves, or one tenth of 1% of Newfie GDP. Nobody wants Canada's seal pelts, their price dropped to only $6-$25..it used to be $52.

[catwoman34]

For kennedydive:I believe killing ANY animal for ANY reason is wrong-and yes I am a Vegan and proud of it...

[kennedydive]

And I commend you for that. You have beliefs and stick by them. Again. Hats of to you!

[kennedydive]

Look up "Cattle Slaughter Factory" on you tube. Don't tell me that this is less cruel than seal hunting. All you non Vegan people have no right to complain if you are eating steak. For you Vegan folk, hats off. I couldn't do it. My wife is vegetarian and that's hard enough on me

Keep this thought in mind though. Next the protests will be against something like cattle. Now no one and slaughter a cow. The Vegans are happy until the world shuts down because of all the businesses that rely on it.

[nicolatwo]

For kennedydive: Wrong. The world does not depend on slaughter businesses. We can change this paradigm. It's not that difficult.

[askalice50]

kennedydive, the world will not shut down because no one will slaughter cows or seals. It will finally survive. The people (or their corporations or their governments) will finally learn to conduct a society that will live in harmony with the planet. Is this a flakey idea to you? Sad if you think this can't be done....

[kennedydive]

I think it is something that will never happen. I think that the belief that people (or their corporations or their governments) will finally learn to conduct a society that will live in harmony with the planet is a dream. Not a bad dream but still a dream. If you feel this is something you want to fight for than good for you.

There is too much money made in countries off of meat products from farms right down to fast food joints. Economically it would be devastating.

[AnthonyMarr]

You speak as if all "businesses" are moral and ethical and God-ordained. Fact of the matter is: Those businesses in question eminently are not. And those that are not, like slavery and the Inquisition, need and deserve to be terminated, even at the expense of "jobs", especially those that are as immoral, unethical and evil as their businesses.

[patclaudowen]

Hell Yes,Stop the Seal Hunt.And like ForSpartaaa Said,google : Seal Slaughter is Cruel According to Canadian Sealers .

Confessions of sealers.Breakes my heart this hunt !!!

[blambo35]

Fucking hippies. They need to get a life

[fishmarc]

blambo35, Unlike you these people actually care about this planet and show it by doing something about it. What do you contribute to anything????

[AnthonyMarr]

These people have lives far richer than you can imagine. It is a life of compassion, of which you are obviously devoid.

[nicolatwo]

Subscribed and favorited. Those are really caring people in this video. It touches me so much to see a group of caring people. One usually does not see many caring people in one place. I am glad we have the Internet and are able to connect with one another.

[sarcophyllus]

Seal massacre is bloody baby killing and speciesist.

If you only talk about labour keep in mind what it said above the entrance of Auswitch: ''arbeit macht frei''... Murder of babies is not a job to be proud of.

[doggy0803]

Seals and newborns are not the same,sheesh!

My ignorance?

Because you have tunnel vision and are not willing to see how the real world is does not mean I am ignorant!

Take your eye OFF the ball!

[wolfiesmom1]

I so wish I could have joined you all there. And listen, Doggy, Nature has not bashed the head in of innocent baby animals, your ignorance does not make sense...Sealers are cold blooded knuckle draggers

[doggy0803]

I have no compassion?

Because I do not agree with your views I am somehow less in your eyes?

I have no problem with you being a vegan, why should you dictate to others what nature has done since the beginning of time?

How arrogant!

If you don't want to hunt seal that is fine, but don't tell others they can't make a living at it,

DICTATOR!

[rebeccasaveswhales]

No creature should come to such a violent death on this planet. I wouldn't take your baby from you and club it to death because I wanted the super soft skin of a human newborn. There comes a time, which is now, where we need to start standing up for the defenseless and promoting a world full of kindness. If we don't? In 100 years we will be so desensitized to our own brutality that killing a human newborn won't be too far fetched. Where will we draw the line?

Rebecca

[doggy0803]

If they were tarantulas nobody would care, you are all so transparent and pathetic.

Does everyone think that meat magically arrives in the cooler at the store?

Guess it doesn't matter because cows are ugly.

[AnthonyMarr]

For most of us, it is half for the seals, half against the hunt.

A person without compassion will never understand how we feel for the seals, or cows for that matter since most of us are vegans. But he/she should have no doubt how we feel about the cowardly act of grown men killing defenseless baby animals. If he/she still doesn't understand, here is a word for ya: DESPICABLE.

[223gunner]

compassion? how can you automatically assume that omnivores have no compassion?guess what I am an omnivore & i have raised & helped lots of injured animals! & when 99% of us hunt seals or any other wildlife we insure that the animal hunted do not suffer at all !& as for a very small few of idiots that would allow animal to suffer they should have the same suffering in turn! "one bad apple can spoil the bunch" how true!

[223gunner]

To think that with so many problems in the world that need immediate attention , seal hunting is not one of them ! & that the majority of protesters would not know what it is they are protesting for ? perhaps to make them feel like they are part of something noble when realistically they are blinded by ignorance,propaganda & brainwashing !

[AnthonyMarr]

You opening question is usually posed by those who do nothing at all for any cause.

About you ignorance and brainwashing: With the stark fact of 3000 "he-men" bashing 300,000 baby animals and skinning some alive, for money and/or for fun, something they need the official lie called the "Seal Protection Act" to conceal, what propaganda do we need?

[223gunner]

do you do any research at all ? because if you did you would know the difference that we do not "skin them alive", a seal pelt is graded for its straight cuts down the middle underside, that would be next to impossible to achieve . "for money "? of course it is as any other job you get a pay check. !. "or for fun" ? with all the associated dangers involved in hunting in or on sea ice ,there is no room for fun.& the "seal protection act" has the same laws as any other slaughter house industry ,

[AnthonyMarr]

A few years ago, a team of veterinarians who observed the hunt concluded in a formal report that 42% of the seals seen skinned were still conscious, and I have seen videos of seals writhing while being skinned. 42% of 250,000 = >100,000. The government's response was to say that the 42% was exaggerated, that "only" 2%, or "only" 5,000, were "killed inhumanely". This is by the pro-sealing government's own admission. If you want to cut it down to zero, you'll have to duke it out with Harper.

[223gunner]

correction----42% of 75 seals not 250,000 ! you see this is how easily people get confused !

[223gunner]

those veterinarians were bought and paid for by the very animal rights groups that you quote from and support just to further strengthen their propaganda reports. did you know that it was proven in court that (IFAW) had paid people to skin seals alive just because they couldn't find any violations towards the seal hunt ! so with that being said what wouldn't they say or do to rake in extra moneys ?

[nicolatwo]

For Gunner: That is a total lie! Stop slandering and lying. The ones who pay and bribe their way through are those with money agendas, not the caring groups.

[AnthonyMarr]

Have you ever heard of extrapolation?

[223gunner]

yes! and extrapolation does not do any good here when jobs are at stake ! unless you want to make up facts and statistics to further mislead the unsuspecting public !

[ForSPARTAAAAAAA]

Google for

" Seal Slaughter is Cruel According to Canadian Sealers "

[223gunner]

"We do not support the killing of any animals but we consider the slaughter of the seals in Newfoundland to be humane."

Trevor Scott, Executive Director of International Society for the Protection of Animals (ISPA)

The ISPA is now World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA). This statement was made when there were less regulations and less enforcement personnel.

[AnthonyMarr]

The National Wildlife Federation is a good-old-boy hunters' club, and even the Defenders of Wildlife is a pro-hunting organization. So what's new about names like ISPA and WSPA?

[nicolatwo]

For Gunner: Oh, my gosh, this is horrific. Glad you point this out. I will never support WSPA.

[223gunner]

just curious what groups do you support ?

[nicolatwo]

For 223Gunner: You are a seal hunter!

[223gunner]

yes! and i will be out there this year too ! and no i do not enjoy to see animals suffer ! if i did see anyone torturing any animal yes i would report them to the proper authorities! but insuring that the animal is quickly dispatched is top priority aboard 99% of the seal hunters that participate in the hunt .

[askalice50]

"and no i do not enjoy to see animals suffer"

If that were true you wouldn't be out there killing young seals that can't escape from you. If that were true, you would have found something better to do with your life. Come on, we did it in BC when we lost the logging way of life.

[223gunner]

i am a fisherman with a family to feed , the difference with logging is that it does not reproduce as fast as the harp seal population, seal hunting is a viable renewable natural resource that is strictly monitored fishery and is in no danger of over hunting or being inhumane .

[askalice50]

My great grandfather was a logger with a family to feed. What's your point?

[nicolatwo]

For askalice: You are great. Perfect comment to Gunner. And you wrote a great introduction on your channel.

[nicolatwo]

Gunner, stop killing seals!

[Lorraine56838]

If SMASHING a skull is is considered "humane" and then shooting at the seal when caving in its skull doesn't kill it then I wonder why it is that in the USA when the death penalty is used ...we don't just go on and smash the offenders head in The Seal Slaughter is totally inhumane and totally unnecessary ALL that just so some Idiot can be fashionable in that beautiful skin ...Thats just SICK

[andalusia89]

I hope the EU listens and puts a TOTAL BAN on all seal products!

[androclestipster]

fantastic protest. Thanks to askalice50 and Lady for the share.

[XB70Playboy]

When is that reject Harper getting the boot like George Bush did.?

[wyliesnyder]

I wish we could do more than sign petitions.

[GeHOF]

Bless you all!!!!!!!!!!!

[iocarme]

Excellent stuff, many thanks for taking action for the seals, keep up the good work.

! BOYCOTT CANADIAN SEAFOOD !

[JacksHounds]

Wow great turn out. Well done all...thanx nessan1 for sharing

[neesan1]

Excellent, Thank you all fro standing up for the seals,

It breaks my heart every year when the seal culling starts and dispite having Canadian family who keep inviting me to Canada I will not go while sael culling continues.

Avril ( UK )

[slmwv34]

Wonderful thank you all so much for what your doing to help stop this cruel act of man,,,,

[askalice50]

A great turn out. You people are the best!

[musicloveraustria2]

Thanks!