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Originally Posted by Strange Famous
As long as they are hunted for meat or some rational and productive use of the corpse, I would have no problem.
If they are being hunted for "sport" I think it is pretty shoddy.
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They are hunted purely for their pelts.
There is no market for the carcass whatsoever. The bodies of the dead baby seals are discarded into the sea. Not even the pet food manufacturers want the meat (for free).
Sealers are paid $35.00 per pelt.
Pro-sealers often make the arguement that it is no different than eating beef or pork. The fact of the matter it is different because these are wild animals, not animals raised on a farm, and the seals are not eaten, they are killed strictly for their hides at roughly age 12 days to 21 days.
The entire thing is a national embarassment motivated by politics frankly. For all the money the Canadian Government spends for ice breakers, security, towing, and the DFO, it would be cheaper just to pay the drunkards who go out bashing in the heads of baby seals to sit home and drink beer.
As far as I am concerned, the Anti-Seal Hunt Protestors have every bit as much the right to protest their convictions at the very least. While no one would advocate a giant fist fight on the ice between sealers and protestors, I don't think the government should have the right to arrest the protestors.