Woah. seals are cuter than i remembered.

So after Canada stops the annual slaughter of baby seals, we can enjoy their slaughter of fish and other sea animals again?

Well JimInCanada, personally I think you’re a sick f*ck / Based on your logic which is rhetorical and ridiculous at best (perhaps YOU should be checking your facts ) I mean there are “millions and millions and millions” of them…please! Is this based on some kind of factual information? Did you count? You really think there are “millions and millions and millions” of them huh? More importantly based on your idiotic, ridiculous, self-centered logic since there are “plenty” of them I think we should convert that logic to the human race since there are literally “millions and millions and millions” of them and that we know is ACTUALLY a fact. In fact there are approximately better than 12 billion of us at this point so hey since there are so many of us how about we go out with a CLUB not even a gun or something a little less painful and start knocking off humans. I think that’s a great idea! Actually lets just start knocking off the young of the humans since they eat so damn much and inconveniencing us and hey we can use their skins for coats and leave their flesh to rot because we’re not killing them to eat we’re killing them to feed a billion dollar fur trade industry. Ok Ahab guess who’s getting rich on this and it ain’t these ignorant people out there clubbing the “li’l seals” to death. It’s called “greed”, moron, look it up. And perhaps Native Americans are allowed to hunt endangered species but you know I don’t exactly see hoardes and hoardes of native americans running around clubbing timber wolves to death or prairie dogs or whooping cranes…where the f*ck do you get your information you freak? And lastly, I really can’t stand you angry, bitter, “quasi-intellectuals” who think they can put the word “quasi” in front of anything and make themselves sound more intelligent than they in fact they really are because the rest of us in the “thinking”, free world just ain’t buyin’ it dude.

Canada engages in the commercialized slaughter of animals for human food just as every other country does. Buffett’s boycott is of Canadian seafood, i.e., the product of Canadian slaughter of animals other than seals.

I say, if you don’t mind the killing of cows, chickens, fish, lobsters, etc., the concern for seals is a bit shallow, if not hypocritical.

At least McCartney and Anderson are vegetarian.

Dear Karine, fish are living creatures, too. We don’t need to eat them any more than we need a seal-skin coat. I share your disgust at the Canadian seal slaughter. And I can’t ignore the billions (yes, billions) of other animals slaughtered by humans every year.

The Canadian government estimates that there are about 5 million harp seals, but considering that the Canadian fisheries department has a long history of over-estimating marine populations, and ensuring us that fisheries populations are healthy up until the day they collapse, I highly doubt that number. And when you compare it to how many harp seals there were before they were commercially hunted (an estimated 30 million), I think the population is too low. Many scientists outside of the Canadian government have criticized the Department of Fisheries and Oceans’ harp seal population studies and many think their estimates are politically motivated. In an age where global warming threatens species such as harp seals and polar bears that depend on ice coverage for survival, the Canadian government should be on the conservative side and enact something like the Marine Mammal Protection Act that we have in the U.S. Furthermore, cod makes up only a small portion of the harp seals’ diet, and harp seals eat a number of cod predators, so slaugthering harp seals in mass will do little to improve cod stocks. The bottom line is that there is no reason to kill marine mammals, or any animals, for fur coats in the modern age and that killing marine mammals is not the way to improve fish populations.

JiminCanada;
Keep up the good work. I couldn’t agree with you more. It is unfortunate that many people living and polluting in large urban centres (NY) lose sight of the fact that many people rely on harvesting natural resources for their livelihoods. I am a fisherman and a hunter. I completely agree with your comments regarding big game hunting. It is often been reduced to a competition to bolster the egos’ of the worlds wealthier men. Which guy has the biggest head on his wall. And you are quite right. Would Jimmy have the guts to boycott his fat cat friends who are probably on the net right now booking their next trip to collect yet another head? It would be the end of his one hit wonder career.

Sooooo, it is bad to kill seals in Newfondland – in a manner that has been researched and proven humane (and no, none are skinned alive; that is typical animal rights activists propaganda), yet it is perfectly all right to kill them in Alaska?
Right. Americans don’t want the world to know about that.
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As for Mr Buffet (and apparently a good portion of the people who have made comments here); just love how Americans feel it is their God-given right to dictate to the rest of the world how they can Govern, live, hunt, eat or worship.

SEAL MEAT CONTAINS METHYL MECURIC POISON

Seal Meat has been found to contain huge quantities of Methyl Mercury, a highly toxic substance that causes brain tissue damage if ingested, and eats away at human cognitive ability.

Any person touting seal meat in Canada is therefore advocating the mass-poisoning of Canadian citizens. Any Canadian Sealer, attempting to push, sell, export, or ship baby seal products to the European Union, is attempting to push material that can damage citizens of all countries in Europe.

In addition, what this means, is also, that any seal hunter, or dubious official attempting to promote the ingestion of seal meat by dignitaries, be they 1st nations, native people, or otherwise, is attempting to push on people, the ingestion of a substance that is known to cause human organ damage, stunted brain growth, and death.

SEAL HUNTERS and PRO-SEALERS are ANTI-CANADIAN

Thus, any person (such as the example “Jae” above) who is caught attempting to tout seal products, is attempting to cause damage and human poisoning to thousands of Canadian citizens.

Any person who is a pro-sealer is NOT a patriot. The population of Canada is over 33 MILLION people, of which Sealers comprise less than 6,000 fanatical killers. What this means, is, that Sealers comprise less than 0.00015 of Canada’s population. In other words, any person caught advocating sealers, is AGAINST 99.999% of the Canadian people, who are afflicted by these seal killers.

Sealers defame and dishonor the Canadian Flag in front of the world. Thus, any person cheering sealers is fostering shame onto the great flag of Canada.

Any person who is AGAINST sealers, is FOR 99.999% of good Canadian citizens. Any person working to STOP sealing is restoring pride and honor back onto Canada’s great flag. Anti-sealers are Canadian patriots, washing the foul stink of sealers off of the once-great nation of Canada.

SEAL HUNTERS INFLICT ECONOMIC DAMAGE ON EVERY CITIZEN OF CANADA

Sealing is a Financial Loss to the nation. Sealers cost every hard-working good Canadian citizen huge amounts of money, docked from every poor Canadian citizen’s paycheck to pay for the huge losses that a tiny special-interest pack of extremist Seal Killers inflict on Canada.

A tiny hoarde of nasty and disgusting malicious mal-informed seal clubbers and their special-interest political officials inflict horrible damage onto Canada and all good Canadian people.

The Seal Hunt causes an Economic Loss to Canada. Sealers falsely attempt to trick you (the general public) into believing that it earns a huge wealth of money for them = FALSE! Sealers and the DFO attempt to hide the costs from you. As an example, the DFO attempts to claim that the seal hunt brings in 12 million dollars (Found to be doctored and FALSE.) In reality, in 2008, the seal hunt caused an economic LOSS of nearly 50 million, the brunt of which was bourne by millions of other Canadian citizens. In 2008, the sealers cost the nation of Canada over 60 million, and brought in 2. That is a financial LOSS of over 58 million dollars brought on the nation of Canada by the sealers.

Sealers also attempt to get people (you) to believe they *must* do this because they live off of this (This is false) As an example, the pelt price in 2009 was less than $15. Now, the Federal Government issues a T.A.C. which is the TOTAL NUMBER of pelts which are allowed to be sold by these sealers. This number is 285,000. If you multiply those 2 numbers together, you will get the MAXIMUM amount that the seal hunt can possibly bring in: 4,275,000. What this means, is that the Fisheries Minister (Anti-Canadian Gail Shea) just attempted to tell you that the seal hunt earns over 12 million, but you now see that the total MAXIMUM possible is a little over 4! Mind you, that maximum number of pelts is FEDERAL LAW! If sealers attempt to push more than that, (which they do, and have violated, making sealers criminals) it is a Federal Crime against Canada! Sealers have in fact violated this! And yet go unpunished for the crime. But wait, there’s more: Sealers in 2009 failed to obtain the TAC! The total obtained, according to official landing documents of the DFO was merely 60,000. What this means, is that the seal hunt Only earned $0.9 m! So the fisheries minister Gail Shea and sealers are telling you it earns 12 million, and it actually earns under 0.9 million.

And when you take 0.9m, remember, this amount needs to be further reduced because it must be spread across 2,000 people! So divide that 0.9m over 2,000 people and this means each seal killer is $450 bucks. A YEAR. That amounts to 37 dollars a month. Keep in mind, these sealers are attempting to claim that they earn, feed, clothe, and fuel an entire family on this amount from the seal killings. And they further attempt to claim that their entire “lively hoods” will be ruined and taken away with the riddance of the horrible seal hunt. $37 dollars a month, which these sealers try to dupe you into believing is their whole livelihood providing their home, car, food for a family of 3,4,5 etc, equates to 8 dollars and 75 cents a week. If you divided that by a family of 4, that’s $2. Sealing, if it were a regular job, would need to be advertised as having an hourly pay of .21 cents an hour. Imagine if you went to a job interview, and they told you you will earn .21 cents and hour, and your annual salary will be $450.00 bucks. Gives a new meaning to the word loonies. This is effectively less than a person would earn at a YARD SALE.

Sealing earns a lower amount of money, than any one of these sealers could earn if they sold an old lamp in a yard sale. One could glue googleyes onto stones and sell it as a “fun-pet” and provide for ones family in more capable fashion than this seal hunt.

Now, don’t forget, sealers DO NOT get to take home that $450.00 or that $8.75 a week, or that .21 cents an hour. Why not? Because they have EXPENSES! In order to even go sealing at all, it costs more than 50% of what is earned. One first needs a sealing boat: $20,000.00 to 100,000.00. Then, one must purchase provisions, food, etc, for the sealing voyage. Mind you this is not just buying a shirt, this is conducted out on the ice-pans at FRIGID temperatures in the Arctic. One must buy hugely expensive weather gear. Then there are weapons, $200 to $600.00, then there’s ammunition, hakapiks, boots, flotation devices, EPIRB emergency beacons, there’s the cost of weapons permits, sealing licenses, boat permits. Then there’s FUEL costs. Seen the price of petrol and/or diesel lately? Now imagine having to buy hundreds or thousands of litres or gallons of it to put into the boat in order to travel hundreds of miles and kilometres across the Arctic. This effectively makes the EXPENSES of going sealing greater than sealing earns. In other words, the sealer who is attempting to convice you, that he “needs” to engage in this malicious act “in order to survive” or such things is pushing on you a load of something you don’t want to eat. That sealer is not simply irresponsibly failing to provide for any and all children or family, that sealer is actually potentially causing a financial loss on himself, and the entire coastal community. Turning that meagre .21 cents an hour into a whopping -$18 dollar an hour LOSS! Sealers a soaked in RED in more ways than 1.

Not only do sealers inflict financial harm on their own families and children, sealers inflict their financial damage on YOU as well. Each year, the govt spends millions of dollars on ice-breaking ships, coast guard services, DFO officers monitoring sealers illegal activities, (multiple seal hunters are arrested and convicted of illegal activities every year), court costs, airplanes, overflights, Coast Guard rescue missions in order to fish idiot sealers out of the ice when they irresponsibly take wooden tiny boats out into the ice packs and get their boat crushed and get stuck, ending up in a whopping $24 million dollars in ice-breaker (Amundsen) costs alone, plus boycotts, bad blood, dishonor, lost contracts with other Canadian businesses due to sealers disgusting insistance on their smelly occupation, and more. This means that the seal hunt brings in less than $2 mil (under 0.9mil in 2009) and yet COSTS THE CITIZENS OF CANADA over $60 million!

Who pays for the costs generated by these sealers? YOU DO. If you are a Canadian citizen, YOUR paycheck is docked for the losses of the seal hunt. Money is taken out of your hard-earned paycheck, money that YOU need to put food on the table for YOUR family, is taken out of your check, in order to pay taxes that go toward paying to prop up those sealers who are bringing the foul stench of the rotten seal hunt onto the nation of canada.

Sealers cause financial losses on 33 million good Canadian citizens.

So, in addition to sealers and pro-sealers pushing foul tainted meat which they want to sell to poison you, and your family, and children, sealers cause financial hardship and losses onto every good Canadian citizen, and befoul the great flag of Canada.

Any protester, anti-sealer, and all good Canadians working to put an end to the Seal hunt are Canadian patriots. Restoring honor back to the great country and flag of Canada.

Any ProSealer, Seal Killer, or any person caught cheering Sealers or the Seal hunt (such as the user named “Jae” above) are ANTI-CANADIANS, who are backing a tiny faction of malicious lobbyist fanatical killers who hurt Canada, inflict financial damage on millions of good hard-working Canadian people, bring stink upon the Canadian Flag, and attempt to push toxic seal meat and seal oil products which are known to contain Methyl mercury and Brominated Flame retardants, which cause Canadian families to give birth to deformed babies, and poisons 1st nations people and Canadian children.