"Martin Baxter" wrote in message
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Maxprop wrote:

"Capt.Mooron" wrote in message
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"Maxprop" wrote in message

That's an excellent question, to which the seal hunters have not
offered
an answer. It seems that as long as the pup is stunned from a blow to
the head, the skinning begins. When the pup recovers from being
clubbed,
it suffers horribly while bleeding out. Some die from the clubbing,
but
many don't.

...and Max knows this since he's been right out there on the
ice...taking
pictures! Yup he saw the videos as well. You know.. the videos taken in
1973 when they banned white coat killing and since then have only taken
adolescents by clubbing them the required 3 times with a weighted 35 lb
club that has been proven to crush their skull. Never mind the fact
that
if such a club was used on Max... he wouldn't be conscious nor alive
long
enough to endure the required 20 min wait prior to skinning mandated
since
1973.

You're really pretty good at making this stuff up, aren't ya, Mooron.
Like
the hunters would obey such rules, even if they actually existed.

Excellent refutation Max, when you can't belie an argument, call the
expounder a liar. Could you provide some sort of documentation from a
Canadian Government site that indicates that these rules do not exist?

I made the comment after doing a fairly lengthy Google search to see if
there was any validity to his claim. I found nothing to confirm them. But
frankly the existence of such laws is without meaning unless they are
enforced. According to several sources, the harp seal hunts continue as
they have for decades without any substantive changes.

I believe you have some sort of medical training, how long do you
suppose the average mammal would survive in sub-zero temperatures with
no epidermis?

Reports state the pups bay for up to an hour, with an average of about half
that. But that's hardly the point. Would you consider it humane to
castrate a man, cut off his hands and feet, and disembowel him with a
scalpel, provided this was all done in sub-zero temperatures and he'd be
assured of dying before too long? Or did it possibly occur to you that the
pups experience excruciating pain during the skinning process prior to
death? Your question is irrelevant.

Max