http://www.wspa-international.org/si....php?page=1009
I agree with everything WSPA has said about this. It promotes cruelty, it is inhumane and a big step back in animal welfare.
What are your thoughts on this?
http://www.wspa-international.org/si....php?page=1009
I agree with everything WSPA has said about this. It promotes cruelty, it is inhumane and a big step back in animal welfare.
What are your thoughts on this?
Well, unless it's not killing for the sake of tourism (i.e, a safari), but simply tourists who join regular hunting expeditions, then it's fine. Seals are being killed, and in moderation, it's fine. It's also fine if certain strange individuals want to take part in such an affair... but not tourist expeditions, intended for the killing of seals (or any other animal), simply for the sake of pleasure or sport.
When fighting monsters, be wary not to become one yourself... when gazing into the abyss, bear in mind that the abyss also gazes into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche
The rightful owner of this Ciddie can kiss my arse! :P
Ohhhh, but isn't it fun to brutally slay cute animals? That is what makes you A MAN.
Seriously, I can't see the point in seal hunting. I mean...whats the point of killing the animal? The skin? As far as I know seals are not edible.
That's horrible. I want to take that seal in the picture home with me, but I can't. I don't think he'd live very long in my refridgerator. I wish I had a seal!
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Thats messed up.
He is so cute.............Originally Posted by devilmaykickass
Thats messed up.
Humans are so cultured. Let nobody ever say that we represent the best in subjective moral behaviour
What you said confuses me. It's okay for hunters to kill seals for sport, but not for tourists to do it?
Mr Thou! Mr Thou!
They are edible. My uncle is a hunter and has a fair amount of seal meat. I don't know what they taste like though.I tasted seal blood once. I'll never do that again.
And killing animals for sport is wrong no matter who does it. I don't particularly like hunting, but the food has to come from somewhere and that's where animals comes into the picture, I guess. But I hate it when animals die unneccesary. "Don't kill what you can't eat."
(SPOILER)I'm Norwegian
Exactly. When a hunter kills a seal, it means it's necessary, whether for fur, meat, fat, etc. When a tourist does that... he kills the seal with little skill, causing it great pain, damages the fur, and probably does nothing with the carcass later. That's wasteful, and wrong.It's okay for hunters to kill seals for sport, but not for tourists to do it?
GET HIIMMM!!!I'm Norwegian
When fighting monsters, be wary not to become one yourself... when gazing into the abyss, bear in mind that the abyss also gazes into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche
The rightful owner of this Ciddie can kiss my arse! :P
Exactly. When a hunter kills a seal, it means it's necessary, whether for fur, meat, fat, etc. When a tourist does that... he kills the seal with little skill, causing it great pain, damages the fur, and probably does nothing with the carcass later.If a hunter kills a seal for sport, it's not killing it for anything necessary.It's okay for hunters to kill seals for sport, but not for tourists to do it?
I am not against seal hunting if it is not excessive and it is done for food (well, now Levian just said seals are edible). I mean, if you can use the seals for the meat and the skin, then it's OK, as long as it is controlled and they don't end up getting the poor animals extint or screwing up the ecosystem. However, if it's just for the skin, yes, I find it unethical.
seals eat lotsa fish. One of Norway's major industries is commercial fishing. Perhaps the seal population is too large, threatening the livelihood of an already threatened industry, and the predator/prey ratio in this case is too large.
or, perhaps the polar bears, who eat mainly seals, would increase if the seal population is too high. Here in Coldest Hel, they're becoming quite the nuisance, polar bears. There was one a little while back that broke through a window, dragged a man out of his house and mauled him. This incident spurs hatred of the local peoples towards the bears, motivating a whole buncha meaningless hunting in retaliation.
methinks better to control the populations before they become troublesome. This must be done responsibly with a knowledgable guide, of course. But really, the only tourists who would sign up for this kinda thing would be hunters anyways and likely fairly good shots with a rifle, so the inhumane-ness of the kill is really rather a silly notion.
Makoto, Honesty.
All the stuff I've read on it suggest seals are rarely shot, as that would damage the valuable fur. Seals, mostly babies, are clubbed to death and skinned.
This is all only as far as I know, and probably has a fairly inaccurate slant, as I'm a hippie, as my dad says. I'm sure there are many Norweigian hunters who make a livelihood out of this, and as long as they use all parts of the animal, I'm fine with it. But seeing photos of piles and piles of skinned, rotting carcasses tends to make one suspicious of a hunter's intentions, which is sad to say, but true regardless.
Signature by rubah. I think.
I think its terrible that human beings can go out and kill seals for tourism or because they do not want the seals eating the fish because they want to eat it or profit by it. Or any other reason.Seals need to eat fish, we don't. No one has to eat seal. And nobody has to sell fish to earn a living.
I was gonna post something mean about killing seals but then i saw the baby seal. I might have cried if nancy wasnt being a bitch on the phone.
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