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Hunting seals on the ground is too boring. I would require hunters to wear scooba equipment and send them in that cold water, also limiting weapon to harpoon or something...

Seals have over-populated in some areas of the world because of human intervention. Maybe it's necessary to hunt the nasty buggers in some places...like it's necessary to hunt deer and elk here...but, I can't see the average hunter in the U.S. using seal meat like we do elk and deer...bleecht!

Hunting seals would be about as exciting a sport as hunting kittens in glass jars (without taking them out of the jars). You walk up to a seal on the beach or the ice and shoot it or club it to death (clubbing is preferred because it doesn't make a hole in the hide). Seals can move pretty fast in water, but on land they can't get away from you.
But maybe the Norwegians figure they'll get a lot of hunting-starved refugees after Britain bans hunting.
I'd rather try something more challenging, like shooting canned hams in the grocery store.

I don't know how easy it would be if you got close though. You'd have to shoot it from far away. I'm also from San Diego, and I've heard many stories of people being mauled and bit by seals. Apparently they can get pretty vicious if you get close. And also, they tend to hang out in big groups, so you would be vastly outnumbered.

Mauled by seals? Vicious seals? Vastly outnumbered?
Razela, maybe you should see if the Childhood Goat Trauma Foundation has a branch for Seal Trauma.
If you've ever seen any films or photos of commercial seal hunts (Greenpeace always has plenty of these to show), you know that it's exactly as I've described it.

I can`t believe it, How can they say that to seal hunt is exciting??? How can you people believe that to make suffer an animal in extinction and cause an ecological impact without any reason more than the entertainment can be exciting?????? the world is the way it is because there are people disgusting like you living in it. Maybe we should go out an hunt you. I hope you sleep quietly at nights.
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I can not believe how callous you all are. Can you imagine being clubbed to death. These animals are harmless. The seals in Canada and Norway live for the most part far far outside of human populated areas. The humans seek them out, bust into there homes, and put them selves in "danger of being bitten or mauled" out of greed and ignorence. Anyone who is bitten by a seal or killed by a seal surley deserves it. The seals are not vicious nor are they overpopulated as some people might say(as a reason to justify there brutal murders) and even if that were so human beings are a horribly overpopulated,invasive, and destructive species and yet clubbing infant babbies for profit is still a crime. The "overpopulation" excuse just does not cut it. Hunters think they are doing the animals some big favor by killing them. They call themselves conservationists? HA thats laughable. Hunters say that the animals will die of starvation if it were not for there efforts to spare the species. That's all bullshit and propiganda, it is untrue and the hunters know it. If I were a seal I would much rather starve to death than be clubbed to death anyway. I am sure if the seals had a choice and said to a hunter "Hey I know you want to spare my species from starving by shooting me, but I would rather just starve, please drop your weapon and let me die how I will" the hunter would still kill the damn seal and cash its body in for what ever money it was worth. Hunters care only about there own agenda's and nothing else. They care nothing for "the greater good of the species" and in all cases of extinction or endangerment it was the fault of those same hunters who claim that there clubs do good. Even if a tiny few seals were unable to survive because of "overpopulation", it would benifit the species as a whole. Animals unable to survive are in some small way inferier to the rest of the population, and by dying from natural wild causes this will prevent inferior animals from passing on there inferior traits to offspring, therefore strenghting the entire population. Furthermore the only animals that are profitable are babbies that are less than 12 days old and still have there babby fur. Seals are clubbed for there coats, and baby coats are the softest, prettiest, and most marketable and so the victoms are the most helpless, those animals that are 0-12 days old are brutally murdered. Hunting seals does not benifit the seals, or does it benifit any other form of life, except for humans who are fuled by a lust for money, in this case blood money.

hi there,
well,,,,just wanted to say that hunting seals should be banned and if anyone found doing so should be slaughtered to death

I just saw one of those email messages with a powerpoint presentation on baby seals being murdered. WHAT A GRUESOME ACT. I can bet a billion on the fact that these hunters have never had kids of their own or held even a human baby close to their heart. These so called hunters are just BEASTS and should not be considered part of humanity. Maybe one day someone should go to their home and tell them that they have become too overpopulated and that someone of their family needs to be slaughtered in front of their own eyes. How did these people grow up; probably by skinning their mothers alive for meat? ROT ON EARTH, HUNTERS...

It's sad to see how much anger can result from ignorance and misguided propaganda. Although I've never hunted a seal and will probably never do so I can honestly say that the process seems to me to be as humane as any other "animal harvest". People who find this violence and blood shed apallying may want to consider their entire way of life before condeming people to die. I am a vegetarian and have been for years I do not agree with the modern process for harvesting meat. For those of you who hate seal hunters I suggest you take a trip to your local slaughter house and get a whiff of whats taking place all around you on a daily basis. Outside the brutally efficient mass destruction of animals for human consumption there is always that nagging little fact that close to 4 million stray cats and dogs are euthanised (put down) in the USA every year. There are also flaws in the arguments raised by the necessity of killing these animals for pelts. People rarely stop to think where their new plastic boots or clothing come from. Well most of these products are petrolium based which means that oil is needed to produce them. As any true "activist" would know the pursuit of oil is one of the most henieous human activities on the planet and the USA is the main "hunter". Recenlty the Bush administration tried to push forward a bill to drill right in the middle of an alaskan wildlife reserve and almost succeeded. However the proposal was denied due to pressure from the Canadian government. I am all for the ethical treatment of animals but we must discern what these ethics are and how they will be most effectivly understood. A child in africa dies every three seconds. If we can't even protect ourselves how will we ever save the seals?

^^^^ well i agree in a sence, but wut did god put animals on earth for.... companionship and food, i am totally against hunting for sport, but at one time ppl needed meat to survive, now we have alternets, i am no vegetarian, and could never become one because i rely too much on meat and i beleive that is somewut the porpess for SOME animals.... dont get me rong i luv animals and if i could become a vegetarian i would, but then if everyone decided to become a vegetarian we would have the trouble of over population, makes the food chain come to mind

The seal hunt is very important it is a income a way of life and a good meal.It is in no way any more cruel then killing any other animal,I myself do not want to see any animal suffer.I would love for some of those people to contact me so we could discuse this and get each others point of view

The seal hunt is a friekin JOKE! The seals did NOTHING!! They are defensless... You guys who want to KILL animals make me sick!!! Hitting an animal on the head with a sharp rod is bullcrap!
It's horrid...i got a email with the pictures.!! God put animals on this earth for a reason, and I would kill every single human whoever killed an animal for a so called "sport" if I could, just so they could see how it felt to DIE! Stop the nonsense!

i am wondering if some of those animal lovers ever had gravy or wore shoes where do they think that this came from lew howell newfoundland

WTF!!!!! WHO THE HELL WOULD CONSIDER HITTING SEALS, KILLING THEM, AND THEN TAKING PICS OF IT? HOW WOULD THEY LIKE IT IF WE HIT THEM,KILLED THEM, AND THEN TOOK PICS? I BET PEOPLE OF THERE KIND WOULDNT ENJOY LOOKING AT IT. THEY NEED SOME SENCE KNOCKED INTO THEM.......WHY DONT WE DO IT WITH A SHOVEL. WHY WOULD YOU FIND KILLING SEALS AMUSING AND ANNOUNCE IT AS A "SPORT" THEY SHOULD BE SLAUTERED.

Clubbing of sels should be condemned. It is not about how would you like it, because people are murdered everyday. Another point arises from this-would you prefer one fatal shot to the head or being battered continuously to death. There is unnecessary suffering and pain in sporting seals. I understand the certain points of veiw saying just because there cute you save them. I also understand the veiw of the necessity of meat. For pure profit and human intent of greed is ridiculous. If conservation of the seals and overpopulation is the case, is there not more humane ways of killing them. As for the sport, there is not and sympathising nor tollerance. We'll help the seals. Australia cares. Tradition can kiss my ass. x

Okay this is fucking dumb. Animals weren't created to be killed for fun. It would be okay if you had to kill them to survive, but this IS NOT how God intended the world to be. Animal cruelty, that's all it is, you are to fucking blind to see the consequences. They have no voice. They have no defense.

WHO THE HELL DO YOU PEOPLE THINK YOU ARE!! i dont kno wut you people see in this, it is not a sport, were is the fun in this, this is cruel in everyway possible do u relize that u people are MURDERS!! when i look at these bulletins posted about this kinda stuff i just wanna cry! wut do you see when you look into those baby seals eyes, who the hell put u in charge of thier lives! they are nothing but little seals that cant get away, so why, why i ask you, why would you do this to something so sweet and loving!!!!! when i look into the their big baby eyes i want them to live! you have no heart, and no soul, but when i look at you, i see a PSYCOPATH!! i hope you cant sleep at night for wut u have done! i hope ur happy

SEAls.... If seals did not look so cute, would people care? What if they looked like squid, would everyone still be so concerned? Probably not. In order to safe fish populations this has to be done.

seal hunting is inhumane and SHOULD be stopped.
the cruelety is bararic & disturbing. it doesnt matter HOW they look like. nor does it "have to be done" im sure those words would be spoken by a sealer who sadisticly likes to watch innocent lives suffer. its the fact they are suffering for no reason. for products no one needs to survive.