COPIED AND PASTED WORD FOR WORD AT THE REQUEST OF CANADIANS FOR ANIMAL WELFARE REFORM
“Prime Minister Steven Harper and the Honorable Kathy Dunderdale Premier Newfoundland and Labrador we would like YOU BOTH specifically and particularly to read this (below) Look at the numbers it does not add up?”
“I don’t think Canadians appreciate you supporting the seal hunt in the guise of a welfare payment program
let alone your support of this barbaric slaughter of tiny baby seals ! There is no hunt it is a misnomer!! A sealer walks up to a baby seal and spits its head open with a huge metal hook and or shoots it! It cannot run away or hide and its Mother watches distraught and crying for her baby.”
“I challenge you both on behalf of all twenty seven million two hundred and eighty seven thousand Canadians to go and watch and witness this bloody slaughter ?”
COULD YOU DO THIS?
Canadians 80% of 34 million,108,572 of US … YES US… this is 27,287.001 people DONT WANT this hunt
The world does not want the hunt or its bloody products !
When are you going to give this up?
You both continue to bring shame and disgust to our country of Canada and its citizens
Give it up you will though… so start providing job retraining your 6000 seal slaughter/ hunt team!!
Patronage and seals…by Ed Hollett ed_hollet@hotmail.com
Thursday’s announcement by fisheries minister Darin King should give you a pretty big reminder that the local political scene remains mired in the past.
The provincial government is giving a private sector company a $3.6 million. They are calling it a loan. In effect, the provincial government is going to pay a cash subsidy directly to fishermen to kill twice as many seals as the company involved could buy. That’s according to a company official at the news conference on Thursday.
Interestingly enough, this is exactly the type of subsidy that helped to decimate the cod stocks since it encourages fishermen to over-harvest the resource. The excuse for it is much the same as well: it is supposedly just bridge financing to help the industry get through some difficult times now. Things will get better in the future.
There’s no truth in it of course. There never has been. Those are just the official excuses the politicians need to avoid the decisions that are tough but that would actually improve the fishery.
Even more interestingly, there’s a growing international effort to wipe out these subsidies. Yet while people around the world are trying to change the behaviour that led to the loss of our fish stocks, the locals are just carrying on as if everything was just peachy.
This looming change in the fishery and the fish markets is part of the story behind the more recent fisheries crisis, by the way, but that’s another issue.
One sentence in the seal subsidy release leaped out. it’s down towards the bottom. It’s vague and written in the passive voice, which likely means the person who wrote the release was just filling up space. Here’s the claim:
The value of the industry to the provincial economy has been estimated at close to $100 million in total in recent years.
“has been estimated”.
By whom?
Well certainly not the provincial government. The fisheries department website gives information for three years. They are from a time before the most recent collapse of the markets:
The Sealing Industry contributed on average approximately $16 million to harvester’s income, and approximately $37 million to the provincial economy in the last three years:
1. 2006: approximately $30 million in landed value and approximately $55 million to the provincial economy.
2. 2007: approximately $11 million in landed value and approximately $32 million to the provincial economy.
3. 2008: approximately $7 million in landed value and approximately $24 million to the provincial economy.
4. From $30 million in landed value and $55 million in total in 2006 to a mere $7.0 million in landed value and $24 million total value two years later.
So $100 million in total value to the economy? Only, if you add up a bunch of years and that doesn’t seem to be what they meant.
This province won’t have a viable, local fishing industry in the future as long as the provincial government sticks with bad policy ideas like doling out cash to fishermen and local companies as they did in the seal announcement on Thursday.
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Thank you on behalf of baby Canadian Seals
Sarah West Founder/President
Canadians for Animal Welfare Reform (CFAWR) www.cfawr.org
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We have become a nation of killing. We have become a society which exploits every species in the animal world. We have allowed our communities to abuse, torture, rape, mutilate, starve and abandon our animals rarely with significant consequences. We have become people who refuse to be responsible, respectful and humane in the treatment of our animals. Make no mistake about it, our behavior is nothing less than violent and shameful.
I WOULD NEVER DO THIS, ITS BARBARIC!!!!!!!!
This abomination must be ended! Now!
It have been illegal to kill white coats in Canada for more than 30 years. The pictures you post are misleading and dishonest. What you are protesting against does not exist. I love animals and could not hurt one if my life depended on it, but over the past number of years I am very disturbed because seals are coming inland, they are in costal communities, following streams and rivers in a desperate search for food. Local people are finding seals 10 and 20 km inland starved to death in search of food. That is an awful slow and painful death. What solution do you have for this? I live in NL and I see this, it is heart wrenching. Sometimes one has to be careful what they ask for. It is more humane to die by a bullet than to starve. Written by a person who really cares with no alterior motive.
Unfortunately the pictures and posts are in no way misleading. What is misleading is the continued propaganda spewed out by those who take part in this inhumane slaughter and the Canadian government that continues to promote this slaughter, wasting millions of tax payer dollars in their effort to lobby not only the European Market who has banned products derived from clubbing young seals to death, but also approaching such nations as China in an effort to export seal products to China (who are renown for animal cruelty (skinning dogs and cats alive to export dog/cat fur products into Canada). Animal welfare groups in China have already protested against the importation of Cdn Seal products into China.
You say that the killing of white coats in Canada has been illegal for more than 30 years. Filmed evidence taken by extremely reputable Animal Welfare organizations proves that the killing of white coats continues. True a bullet is more humane, however it is clubs and gaff hooks that are used in the commercial sealing industry, often the pups are only stunned not killed, and are being skinned alive.
I believe you do truly care, and it is most tragic that seals are being found inland as you state, starvation is a horrific way to die……but the fact that they are found inland in search of food…proves another point…that over fishing has depleted their food source…yet another man made negative effect on the coastal waters of Canada.
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