Seal hunt
04.05.08 (12:08 am) [edit]Well, we're in another seal-hunting season again, and once again the livelihood of a group of agrarian maritimers is being threatened by a smug gang of bleeding hearts. Fortunately, Paul McCartney stayed home this year. Unfortunately, the European parliament has gotten an economic boycott of Canadian products underway, to apply pressure to the seal hunt. It's gotten so bad that members of the industry have gone to Europe to try to educate those bleeding hearts on the fence to come down on their side.
It's not enough that the head of the... Sea Shepherds(?) called the seal hunt a greater tragedy than the death of those 2 sealers, or used fanatical, over-the-top rhetoric to describe the hunt—we've all come to expect that from animal rights activists. What I find really disturbing is a letter to a local newspaper prophesying that those sealers' deaths was God's judgement. Why did they publish that letter? That is just pathetic.
Ok, I've flamed the bleeding hearts enough. After having said all that, I should point out that I think it's a good thing that the activists are at least there. From what I've gathered, it appears that at one time or another, the seal hunt has not been as humane as it should be. That could be very old news, but the danger that sealers might get complacent and expedient in their hunting will always make the existence of activists worthwhile. Because of all the bleeding-hearted attention, the sealers are no doubt being kept very honest and on their best behavior. So I think we have good balance between activists who are enjoying partial success in embarassing the sealers straight, and a seal hunt that is not banned, and presumably well regulated by the government. Where I don't see balance is in the European parliament and in the newspaper I read this morning. Sheesh!
Now if the abortion industry experienced half the scrutiny that the sealing industry does... well, we'd be on our way to a perfect world (and we all know that there's no such thing as a perfect world).