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OTTAWA (AFP) - Canada on Monday set a limit for its annual seal cull this year of 275,000 harp seals, and announced new rules to make the slaughter less cruel as well as curb international protests over the hunt.

The quota includes allocations of 2,000 seals for personal use and almost 5,000 seals for aboriginal hunters, as well as 16,000 seals carried over from last year for commercial fleets that did not capture their 2007 quota, fisheries officials said.

As well, Canada has adopted recommendations of the Independent Veterinarians Working Group to "ensure beyond any possible doubt that a seal is dead before it's skinned," said fisheries spokesman Phil Jenkins.

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ORIGINAL: Gwynvyd

You just like stiring the shit dontchya? *chuckles*

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Ok.. I have been known to sing this song.. Ok.. it was my singature song for years... so sue me.


The Baby Seal Song

Way up north where it is cold,
And you know there ain't no gold,
Some people make a living off the skins that they have sold.
Some say they hate the killing,
But I find it quite fulfillin’,
And  I hate to see a baby seal grow old.

Chorus:
Don’t bludgeon a seal
Because you need a meal
Do it cause you want to hear
The little sucker squeal! *EEK*
Hit them in the head,
Do it just for kicks,
And poke out their eyes
With your eye-pokin' sticks!

My mother was a little mean
My father just a bit obscene
I guess that's just the way I feel
I know you won't believe me
But my woman wants to leave me
So I think I'll take it out on a baby seal!

Chorus
Green Peace wants to lock me up
For what I've done to them seal-pups
Lock me up and throw me in the Keel
But mama mama don't you cry
Because you know that when I die
I'll be coming back as a baby seal!

I like seals.. I love seals.. the baby ones are adorable. I do not think they should be killed in such awful ways. If there are population expolsions fine... if the native populations need them to survive then a number of them can be culled.

 

I am a balanced animal lover/activist. We scrabled our way to the top of the food chain for a reason. ( we's gots the almighty opposable thumb dang nabit!) That however does not mean we are to take that line from the bible and go ape shit killin everything in sight and raping the earth either....

 

Gwyn,

who is sure she will be forced to sing this soon.