[2001 ZTS]

Anyone who has been to a slaughter house knows the seal had the better exit. Not to mention the seal spent it's life in the wild as oppossed to a "factory".

Every grocery store in NF stocks seal meat fresh in season or canned out of season. It is a different world and not ours to judge.

A managed seal hunt is part of the solution not the problem.

The ultimate solution is to increase the number of natural predators in the wild to bring back a balance but until that happens the culling must continue or the seals become the top of the food chain and everything below gets demolished and/or vast numbers of seals die slow painful deaths through starvation.

The exact same thing happens to the deer population. Re-establishing top predators takes a long time.

Mother Nature is a pretty cruel bitch. Life sucks for every species including people in many parts of the world such as Africa right now and people actually starved to death in numbers, in Canada as late as the 1930's.

I'm very sympathetic to many animal causes but the seal hunt is one I feel is as necessary as the deer hunt. I am so sympathetic to animal causes that I dispise pet ownership, where do these "animal lovers" think pet food comes from? It comes from knocking off other animals.