"Maxprop" wrote in message

Actually I have. I've watched the process at three separate slaughter
houses, and yes it ain't pretty. But it's hardly clubbing the animals,
skinning them while still alive, and allowing them to die in agony. What
is even more disgusting is that the infant harp seals have no reason to
mistrust the hunters, so they eagerly approach them. After the pups are
clubbed and skinned, they bay pitifully for up to an hour as they slowly
bleed out. The mothers typically hover over their dying pups, trying in
vain to comfort them. It's cruel and inhumane.

Although I am against any commercial harvesting endeavours... including
commercial fishing... your arguement seems based on second hand information
selectively quoted from animal rights groups. The clubbing of "white coats"
ended in 1987. If fish were cute and cuddly... would you protest the
indiscriminate slaughter of entire schools numbering in the tens of
thousands... subjecting them to massive decompression and slow axphyxiation
or live skinning and gutting?

You have obviously never been to a slaughter house since to the best of my
knowledge they do not provide "tours" nor allow the public access to the
area. Next thing you'll be telling me they gave you a tour of a Chicken Farm
producing eggs..... see if you can even get access to the building. My
roomate was working at a slaughterhouse in Edmonton as supervisor. I
actually saw what the operations were. In my opinion your comments are at
best naieve and obtained second hand.

Max... you have never viewed a harp seal harvest.... nor have you been in a
slaughter house... maybe you thought the packing plant was where the did the
killing?

There is no major difference between a commercial slaughter house and a seal
harvest or the indiscriminate netting by commercial fishing Max.... large
scale commercial harvest of any animal is prone to adhere to the bottom
line... expediency, efficency, profit!

So lay off the skinned pups baying woefully on an ice flow in minus 35c for
hours as their mothers attempted to comfort them ****! Try logic for a spell
instaed of your emotionally based second hand propoganda that you have never
actually witnessed. Think Flash Freeze.... Seriously... engage your brain
before your mouth.

Now I'll repeat this since you "Save the Seals" people are subject to
selective hearing problems.... If you want to stop sounding like an
Hysterical 18 year old PETA activist... try some common sense in your
arguments next time.

Ban the Seal Harvest.... Ban Large Scale Commercial Farming.... Ban All
Whaling of any species.... and All Commercial Fishing in North American
Waters... but most important... Ban Whiney Ill-Informed Suburban Dwelling
Green Activists who depend on all of the above. That's what I'm in favour
of.

Let the small family owned inshore fishermen ply their trade in peace but
take out the mega corps raping the ocean. Let the small scale farmer provide
for the packing plants.

Seals... "cute"... Bwahahahahahahaa... you've never been near a seal Max.
[Okay maybe at the zoo]. I've killed several and eaten the flesh raw.

BTW- This year the ice conditions will contribute to the drowning deaths of
more white coats than the last 5 year quota combined.

CM


You're making a really, really bad comparison between
institutionalised, factory slaughter and clubbing cute little seals to
death.

S'cuse me? I didn't make that comparison--Martin B. did.

Both are abhorrent.

Perhaps, but the differences are profound. Perhaps you should view a harp
seal harvest before making such ridiculous claims.

Max