You really should try to view more recent footage... instead of 20 year old
videos. Oh that's right... those guys that aren't enforcing the guidelines
on the sealers .....but are enforcing the guidelines on the activists are
to blame.

You do realize no valuable footage has been taken for many years since it is
illegal to approach closer than 500 meters of a sealer while he is working
over a defenceless whitecoat and terrorizing it's family. We refer to that
action as "Layin' a beatin' down".... DFO & CCG smackin' those nosey
beatniks with hefty fines.
Helicopter pilots can't even fly over a sealer at work without getting
fined.... yup we protect our endangered species.... Newfie Sealers!!

CM




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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