IFAW Seal Hunt 2008 "Animal Welfare" PSA

[DrakDrakoTako]

0:25 good kiddy <)

[boonedock82]

This is not true of Canadians. Its a source of income for many eastern Canadians. Killing any animal is a brutal act, we need to get over weather or not it was a cute animal as the deciding factor on what we get angry about. The seal hunt shouldn't and won't stop, rightfully so.

[223gunner]

"Millions and millions of dollars are being spent on fighting quote unquote this issue, there are a lot more pressing issues in the world to worry about - animal welfare issues - than a fairly small hunt of an animal that isn't endangered. As long as it [the seal hunt] is done in a humane way, it almost seems like a waste of time and money really."

Annemieke Roell, International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) campaigner for thirteen years

[FarmerTanTerror]

the only conection you need with a seal is your hand on the handle of the Hakapik on its head

[Dravenesque]

And you're 22 years old, which pretty much proves why you made that comment. Uneducated, inexperienced, high-strung little boy who's hopped up on testosterone, trying to be a man. Let's see you try wacking someone like me over the head with your "Hakapik." It would be the worst mistake you'd ever make. Only a coward goes after an animal that isn't capable of fighting back. That's your legacy: a pussy.

[FarmerTanTerror]

1- i may be 22 years old but as far as Uneducated and inexperienced i would disagree, Ive forgotten more than you will ever know... plus your 42 fighting for something you've no clue about... find a new hobby.

2- the ferrule of an average hakapik is 340 g mounted on the end of a 145 cm wood handle the weight to length ratio states that you would not be doing any fighting after the first hit.

3- your attempt at character slander proves I am the bigger man. have a wonderful day

[Dravenesque]

Hardly.

[Dravenesque]

See, you'd have to actually score that first hit, and that would never happen. Hence, the worst mistake you'd ever make. No more arguing.  Hush.

[Dravenesque]

And lastly, "man" means having a set of balls, not chasing after animals that can't fight back. "Man" means going after something that has the potential to rip you a new one. You aren't that person, clearly. *Sigh*....just another rage-induced youngster with something to prove...only to fail miserably.

[bbge00900]

You dont understand. Theres a thing called game-keeping, In Norway theres so many seals there eating up all the food. Therefore other species, including seals, are either moving to new areas or die from the lack of food (Ive seen this first hand). To prevent this from happening we hunt the dominant species so both the plants and the other animals can get some breathing room. Game- keeping has been were successful in many other countries including Norway.

[bbge00900]

The only reason people are against seal-hunting is because theyre cute. They arent endangered, and in my country (Norway) there are so many of them you get money to hunt them, because theyre eating all the fish. In their defense I would like to say that Im agents clubbing seals, there are more humane methods to kill seals. But we cant ban seal hunting forever; a lot of people depend on it.

[freakonlin]

the seal hunt should stop forever!!

[Spazman173]

THIS IS PROPAGANDA.

Also, stop generalizing Atlantic Canada. It's a diverse collection of millions of people in four provinces, the vast, vast majority of who have nothing even remotely to do with the seal hunt. I support the hunt, but I hate having my country generalized in such a backwards way.

[TheLegendOfMySelf]

come on ¬¬'

[billy56081]

Is that cum dripping off thiis guys chin?

[porchnapp]

Seal fur makes beautiful coats. They are warm and naturally water repellent. Carry on with this fine tradition.

[malkoDOTcom]

porchnapp mmm mmm so perhaps human skin as good is mmm depends on workmanship too mmm perhaps make amazonian human heads mmm you know which ones I talk about? (human head made very very small) mmm how your would be? as vanity and decorationmmm look if you change the road you walk on and integrate some compassion this can be much better world around you. in hopes you wake up and save the seal 2 !suerte!

[blambo35]

i sure hope you campaign for all the bugs killed on car windshields and birds killed in wind mills oh and you better be protesting for those poor rats killed in peoples homes every day by poison!!!! Or how about you go fuck yourself you piece of shit. Is it only a noble cause if they are cute and cuddly??

[fannyfunnell]

pfffft. i hope ur find joy in your life cuz its sounds like ur a miserable sod.

[billy56081]

I woulda been first in line if that woulda had seal clubbing as a job at our job fair. What a great way to get exercize, stress relief and you get paid for it, win win win. I can't see any negatives in it.

[JohnCarter234]

ur a dick

[billy56081]

I bet you like dick! Now don't go around being angry because your grandpa and father are the same person. It's their fault you are inbread, not ours.

[JohnCarter234]

dude ur 41!

[billy56081]

Can you count that high? Well I guess being inbread like you are you might have that many fingers.

[fannyfunnell]

seriously. where is the love. i bet u just did that to get hate mail cuz you have no life and its the only way u get attention.

[billy56081]

fannyfunnel, now that is a faggot name. Is that a nick name your daddy gave you as he corn holed you as a child?

[Sikoak]

Seals taste great, the hunt will continue and I'm happy to be a part of it.

[BrN420]

mabey someone should just go out there and stick up for the seal's and we club the shit outa you. i think it sounds fare

[kemosabii]

Yeah accept for any newfoundlander would kick your fucking hippie ass hahaha

[BranVam]

You are so against clubbing that you are willing to go out and club someone to stop it. .... do you realize how absolutley stupid that sounds?

[Sikoak]

Love to see you fucking try it, you'd not stand a goddamn chance. I'm going seal hunting in Labrador soon and I'll kill an extra one for you asshole fucking prick.

[Smackdxwn]

STOP THE SEAL HUNT. its gay and not needed. seals need help badly right now. and its your job to help. JOIN PETA!

[JUMPTHEGUNZZX]

Stop misusing the word gay.

[Spazman173]

PETA is a terrorist group. I'm not exaggerating.

You fuckers sitting in your homes thousands of miles away from Newfoundland find it so easy to condemn something you've heard 2 minutes of biased distorted 'information' about.

The hunt is necessary for the Atlantic fishery, which is very important for Newfoundland's economy. The seals are overpopulated. The government wouldn't subsidize the hunt if it weren't necessary.

It's a Canadian domestic matter. Non Canadians need to shut the fuck up.

[Smackdxwn]

Are you kidding me?! we dont need to and shouldnt kill our wild life. Especially something like them that are only found on the ice. its wrong. period.

[Spazman173]

Now they shouldn't be killed because of the terrain they're found on? Because that makes sense.

Listen; they need to be hunted to keep their population in check. Otherwise the cod fishery would suffer, and human beings would be adversely effected. PEOPLE ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN SEALS. Also, it's actually humane. If they were overpopulated, they'd starve to death, which is way worse.

I can guarantee that if seals were ugly, there wouldn't be nearly as much of an uproar.

[TheLegendOfMySelf]

come the FUCK on u fucking fag... humans aren't more inportante than animals BECOUSE WE ARE ONE u stupid asshole... and they dont need to be hunted u fag... GET A LIFE and do something that is worth it

[XB70Playboy]

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[xoxjordiexox]

IFAW is trying to save and protect innocent animals and baby seals!! The methods in which these innocent seals are slaughtered are absolutely horrible! Whats wrong with a group of people trying to protect and save animals!! I think you are all being the extremist freaks!

the sealers who will be out of a job, they can find another eventually and after researching this issue they are plain downright bastards! Stop thinking humans are so much more better than animals! Think about it!

[first22bus]

How about all those dying children, forget the seals and fight for what matters most. When there are no starving people on the planet and all deseases are cured, poverty is a thing of the past then by all means save the seals!!!

[XB70Playboy]

I love how you think activists aren't capable of chewing bubblegum and jogging at the same time. What a linear thinker.

[ShayneSilence]

We as humans create problems for ourselves such as starvation, poverty, homelessness and so on. We are sucking the planet dry of every natural resource there is, we are causing species to become extinct by over-killing what is needed, and most of it becomes wasted anyway. We create enough problems for ourselves, it is unfair to create problems for the innocent animals that live their lives the way they are supposed to unlike us. Animal cruelty can be stopped along side selfish human problems.

[fannyfunnell]

kudos to you!

I agree 110 percent with everything you just said.

CLUB SANDWICHES NOT SEALS!!!

[TheMapper]

so, are all you people who want to stop the seal hunt going to pitch in and pay to support the families of the people who will be out of work? no? i didn't think so. so until you come up with a viable solution and work for the seal hunters that allows them to make a living then i suggest you be silent, because all your whining and puking is rather tiresome and non-productive.

[XB70Playboy]

Under the HSUS plan, you would be. Paul McCartney talks about it in the HSUS videos. Why don't you take a look. Living without the seal hunt is not even near to being as scary as most of you people think it will be.

[ShayneSilence]

Sealing is an off-season activity conducted by fishermen from Canada's East Coast. They make, on average, one twentieth of their incomes from seal hunting and the rest from commercial fisheries. Even in Newfoundland, where 90 percent of sealers live, revenues from the hunt account for less than 1 percent of the province's economy and only 2 percent of the landed value of the fishery. Fishermen do not make a living off of this, there is little to NO benefit coming to them from this slaughter.

[lordknukle]

The sealers who will be out of their job can go and find another job that doesn't involve killing something.

[linuxman55]

You want something to really be concerned about?

Do a month of searching on pollution if you are not suicidal. Take an honest hard look. If we keep going the way we are going we are going to destroy everything. After WW2 we dumped bombs into the oceans. Mustard gas bombs, Atomic bombs etc. We are share the same air and most of the cities of the world are major polluted.We keep going there will be nothing living in the waters.

[XB70Playboy]

Most of the people who protest the seal slaughter also protest the very issues you bring up as simple diversionary tactic. What do you thin we are, little wind-up robots whose only mission in life is to harass the commercial seal hunters of Newf/Lab? We are sick of the pollution that is the moral corruption perpetrated by individuals with ethically bankrupt soles.

[linuxman55]

I will wear leather. I will eat meat. I will wear fur if I chose to do so. I live in a free nation. We have polluted the hell out of our planet and now everyone wants to blame illness on tobacco use. We have killed far to many animals and fish because of greed but you people want to focus on something that we have done sense the beginning of time.Canada was built on the fur trade. Mankind has slaughter animals as far back as biblical times. What should upset people in waste and pollution.

[XB70Playboy]

I have a special answer for bullshit spin artist like you in my video response to this very video. The seal slaughter is one of, if not thee most wasteful acts on the planet. You with me now????

[linuxman55]

In all honest if the armed forces gave a Thompson SMG or an FN C1 I would fight against you people that are trying to destroy our rights and freedom. You neo Nazi anti smokers and PETA and the like. As far as I'm concerned you people are extremists and do not even focus on the real issues.I grew up on a farm and slaughtered lots of animals. However I hate waste. The real tragedy's are those were people abuse nature because of greed.

[linuxman55]

I thought we were fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan in order to stop extremist groups? Maybe we should be fighting g at home to try to stop extremist groups. Extremist groups like PETA and the neo-Nazi anti smokers that want ot blame illnesses on tobacco when the real fact is that we are becoming ill because of the fact that we have polluted the hell out of the ear, air and land. What is the real agenda here? Simply to control people? we live in a free nation and I eat and smoke what I want.

[linuxman55]

The extremist groups are at it again.

PETA and others like them are extremist groups.

Someone needs to tell them they are losers and they need to get a life.

[Eddythebeast666]

It is far easier for these people to destroy our way of life here in Newfoundland then look in the mirror face up to those failures to protect the envierment closer to home.

Personally when I get an urge to save the world I grab a garbage bag and go pick up some trash along the beach.

The heaps of filth carried here on the gulf stream from New York where they still dump at sea. Trash from those very same fools who write fat checks to scammers like the Sea Shepherds.

[animalactivist]

A succinct and timely message. Especially given the comments below. Compassionate people have an uphill battle for animals in this country, but we must speak out and demand that our politicians represent our concerns.

[223gunner]

we should cut the Farly mowatt up, melt it down & make new rifles for next years seal hunt! oh maybe that wouldn't work neither! because those rifles would only shoot bullshit then. haha! sink the piece of shit too the bottom for an artificial reef! that way everybody is happy!

[animalactivist]

Personally, I'm not surprised that efforts have been made once again to deny the world the truth about the seal hunt, by interfering with the Farley Mowatt. But efforts to paint anti-hunt activists as 'in it for the money' are ludicrous. While Hearn had the audacity to say Watson was in a posh hotel room eating steak, the vegetarian was bunking on a friend's couch. Comments like gunners make me WANT to send money to help support the Sea Shepherd in the face of the real BS- from our government.

[10bears2]

God Bless you! It must be tough, especially where you live...!

[fishman2940]

THEY SHOULD KICK HIM OFF THE ISLAND

[chris37uk]

Thanks to this guy for speaking out