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Topic: Macca Tries to Stop Seal Hunt Return to archive Page: 1 2
3rd March 2006 02:59 PM
glencar
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Lazy Bones wrote:


Me, too. If anyone ever saw video of this cruel tactic, your heart would stop. How anyone can include themselves in this - for the sake of money - is beyond my ability of understanding human compassion.



Where's the money? In the beginning of this thread it says that the US & Europe refuse to buy any products resulting from this insane clubbing hunt. I think the hunt supporters present it as something they've always done.
3rd March 2006 03:19 PM
Gimme Shelter I believe alot of the money comes from Asia.
3rd March 2006 03:49 PM
gimmekeef There needs to be some sort of hunting to keep the seal population in some order I suppose....But geeez clubbing?...Surely there is a less barbaric way....Like being forced to listen to Macca sing?
3rd March 2006 04:18 PM
Lazy Bones figures highlighted below...

What angers me is the term "harvest". A clear depiction of such an inhumane practice.

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McCartneys stage seal hunt protest

Annual ritual a stain on the character of the Canadian people, ex-Beatle says


GULF OF ST. LAWRENCE (Mar 3, 2006)

The annual seal hunt off the East Coast is a "stain on the character of the Canadian people,'' music legend Paul McCartney said yesterday as he and his wife Heather staged a high-profile, anti-hunt protest on barren ice floes in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

The megastar couple called on Prime Minister Stephen Harper to end the centuries-old commercial slaughter by buying back hunters' licences and promoting eco-tourism instead.

"We don't want to see the local people suffer,'' McCartney said after the couple laid on their bellies to get a close-up look at newborn harp seals on an ice pan about 20 kilometres northwest of Iles de la Madeleine.

"But, from what we hear, it is quite a small amount of their annual revenue and this could be easily sorted out by the Canadian government, if they care to do it.''

Under partly cloudy skies, the McCartneys travelled by small plane from Charlottetown to Iles de la Madeleine, 160 kilometres northeast of Prince Edward Island. They then boarded a helicopter and flew to the ice floes.

Dressed in bright orange survival suits to ward off the bitter cold, the 63-year-old former Beatle and his wife posed for photos with snow-white pups as a media entourage of about 20 reporters and photographers looked on.

"We're calling upon Stephen Harper and the government to consider looking at this problem . . . in the light of the international objections,'' McCartney said.

"Canada is known as a great nation . . . But this is something that leaves a stain on the character of the Canadian people and we don't think that's right. I don't think the vast amount of Canadians think that's right.''

The date for the start of this year's hunt has yet to be set, though it usually begins in late March. The 2006 quota is also under review.

McCartney cooed and spoke softly as he came almost nose to nose with bawling pups on the frozen expanse.

Nearby, worried mother seals peered anxiously from areas of open water, clearly frightened by the men and women who so desperately want to be their saviours.

"These are such beautiful animals and in about three weeks from now this whole place will be a sea of red and these pups we are seeing today will be dead just for their fur,'' a genuinely upset McCartney told reporters on the ice. "It's something that shouldn't be happening in this day and age.''

Jean-Claude Lapierre of the sealers association on Iles de la Madeleine said the hunt will go ahead as planned, despite McCartney and hunt protesters.

"These people don't understand what the hunt means to us,'' Lapierre said at the local airport where he greeted McCartney but didn't get an opportunity to debate the issue.

"It's an important part of our lives.''

The most recent figures suggest the industry, which started in the 1700s, was worth between $15 million and $20 million annually and employed up to 10,000 people, most of them in Newfoundland. Supporters argue that income from the harvest is vital to remote communities with few other economic opportunities.

The McCartneys, longtime animal rights activists, noted the Canadian government had approved a three-year management plan in 2003 that set the total quota for harp seals at 975,000 -- a move that prompted renewed outrage among conservation groups.

3rd March 2006 07:01 PM
Gimme Shelter FROM CBC ARCHIVES: Pelts, Pups and Protest: The Atlantic Seal Hunt

There is some question about whether there is enough ice this year to stage the hunt on the ice in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. It would normally begin near the middle or end of March and continue through mid-April.

Last year, McCartney wrote an open letter to then prime minister Paul Martin asking him to ban the hunt.

"We wanted to put you on notice that if Canada moves forward with another hunt next year, we will do all we can to focus attention on this unjustified, outdated and truly horrific practice, including, potentially, visiting the seals and the ice," wrote the musician, who along with his wife is a vegan.

The McCartneys are the latest in a long list of celebrities, including Martin Sheen, Richard Dean Anderson, Mick Jagger and Pierce Brosnan, to publicly oppose the hunt.

Protests over the commercial hunt peaked during the 1970s when actress Brigitte Bardot hugged pups on the Maritime ice floes.

The United States banned the import of seal products in 1972 and the European Union implemented a partial ban in 1983. Canada banned the killing of harp pup seals – whitecoats – in 1987.

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