Officially Christmas time.

[Chemical Ollie]

I think you get the message, even if the text is in Swedish...

[Flubber]

Originally posted by Spec
you will find out that when men with sticks hit the seal to render them unconcious it is not to eat them but to skin them only.

Spec.

Wrong--

it is the traditional method and for years it is true that a skin was taken and the carcass remained behind.

But the more recent seal hunt still uses the gaff as a method. Sealers are trained and a single blow will kill a seal if applied correctly. The entire carcass is used to the extent they have markets for them.

[Chemical Ollie]

Originally posted by Gangerolf


I don't remember much about that... Do you? I think he felt threatened by the sealhunters or something. Anyway, you can't be expelled for being unpatriotic

Odd Lindberg was his name. There was so much critisism and unjust harrassment against him and his family that he eventually decided to move to Sweden. People called him a Quissling and a traitor - allmost like Michael Moore in America.

http://odin.dep.no/archive/attachments/01/04/NOU19028.pdf

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Flubber
The thousands of displaced fishermen who have lost their livlihood with the closure of the east coast cod fishery will be happy to know that you support the seals right to eat the fish.

I don't see how these fishermen have more rights over the fishes than the seals.

Originally posted by Flubber
3. Killing seals creates a marketable product and helps reduce the number of predators killing the various fish stocks, hopefully reducing the time until Canadaian fishermen can begin a fuller harvest.

Again, the fishery wasn't and isn't depleted by seals eating the fishes, it's by overfishing by the fishermen. If they don't stop doing that, they can kill of all the seals, and the fisheries will still be all gone. Now not only you don't have any more fishes, you don't have any more seals, either. Good job.

[MrFun]

Yeah -- those evil seals wanting to survive by eating!!


EVIL, EVIL I tell ya!

[Dinner]

Mr Fun: Are you just against the method used to harvest the seals or are you against all harvesting of seals? Also how is harvesting seals different from harvesting fish or wild birds?

[Combat Ingrid]

Originally posted by Chemical Ollie
I think you get the message, even if the text is in Swedish...

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Oerdin
Mr Fun: Are you just against the method used to harvest the seals or are you against all harvesting of seals? Also how is harvesting seals different from harvesting fish or wild birds?

If the seals being harvested are not in danger of extinction, and the harvesting is done faithfully within the spirit of regulations to preserve their natural population, I suppose there is no serious harm.


I sure do not have any problems with leather for instance, obtained from cattle -- I have an authentic leather jacket myself.

[Dinner]

How is leather different from fur? I mean in your earlier post you said you disliked fur but now you say you like leather. How is the distinction made from one animal hide compared to another?

[MrFun]

Are cattle an endangered species??

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by MrFun
Are cattle an endangered species??

No, they're just a slave species.

[mrmitchell]

We got to the top of the evolutionary chain, and by God we're going to abuse our position

[Sava]

does anyone else see the irony in a christian holiday using a pagan symbol (santa claus)??

[mrmitchell]

Well if you want to get *****y about it, I'm sure everything in modern society dates to some pagan *******.

It's not the Christian holiday, Sava. It's the Commercial holiday.

[David Floyd]

I don't see how these fishermen have more rights over the fishes than the seals.

OK, so then, you are saying that WRT fishing, fisherMEN and seals have equal rights. That implies either that the fishermen have no right to fish, or that seals have rights. Both of those statements are fairly ludicrous, so which one do you want to agree to?