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Could you club this seal?
For the sake of it's pelt?

This seat is in its 'white coat' stage, meaning its only about 10 days old. At this age all it is most capable of doing is suckling from it's mother.

When I was young my mother read me 'The Jungle Book' by Rudyard Kipling which has the story 'The White Seal' - the story of a white seal who terrified of man finds a haven for seals, away from the clubs.

Friday marked the beginning of the seal pup hunt in Canada, and is carried on in Norway, Greenway, Russia and Namibia.
Seals are hunted for thier pelts (or fur), blubber used for oil, meat for pet food and reportedly thier genitals as an aphrodisiac for frustrated Asian men.
They use an instrument called a hakapik to crush its skull and the hook to move the carcass.
It is cruel, morally repugnant and in this day and age totally disgusting.
It has long been argued that the seal pup hunting is a population control measure and to protect other species - why then is such a violent means of killing necessary? Because shooting them would ruin the pelt. The Canadian Fisheries Department claims studies 'have consistently proven that the club or hakapik is an efficient tool designed to kill the animal quickly and humanely.'
However due to improper use the seal endures "considerable and unacceptable suffering," (IFWA) before even reaching a state of unconsciousness.

Although the SUSTAINABLE killing of harp and hooded seals
for food and fur had indeed been occuring for thousands of years by native
peoples of northern lattitudes, the most recent 300 years brought about a new
reason for killing harp seals: COMMERCIAL EXPLOITATION, and with that, the end to any shred of earlier, necessity from sealing.

I consider this unacceptable, and I TOTALLY disagree with this, especially as an alleged means of population control.
BOYCOTT THE CRUEL KILLING OF HARP SEALS, BOYCOTT FUR, BOYCOTT CANADIAN SEAFOOD