Clubbing in Canada?

I have signed and also petitioned major outlets to stop using Canadian seafood.

Great cause, thanks for promoting it.

It is sickening....

Just got an update, I was wrong, the clubbing begins in a few days!!!

Well said, Andy.

Hunting methods were studied by the Royal Commission on Seals and Sealing in Canada and it found that the clubbing of seals, when properly performed, is at least as humane as, and often more humane than, the killing methods used in commercial slaughterhouses, which are accepted by the majority of the public.

A 2002 report published in the Canadian Veterinary Journal found that the club or hakapik is an efficient tool designed to kill the animal quickly and humanely.

Sealers in the Magdalen Islands (Gulf of St. Lawrence) and on Quebec's Lower North Shore, where about 25% of the hunt occurs, use both rifles and hakapiks while sealers on the ice floes on the Front (in the waters east of Newfoundland), where 75% of the hunt occurs, primarily use rifles.

The seal hunt is a sustainable, humane and economically viable way of life. People need to educate themselves about the realities of the hunt instead of taking the word of know-nothings like Paul McCartney and Pam Anderson as gospel.

I refuse to sign, on the grounds I don't disagree with it.

- The image of clubbing seals may be barbaric in your opinion, but the clubs they use are very good at dispaching the pups quickly and, if done properly, it's not a painful death at all, and is as humane as any other method of killing.

- It makes a lot of money for the people who carry out the hunts, the money they get from selling the pelts and meat amounts to tens of millions of pounds.

- There are quotas on how many can be killed, and it also serves the purpose of a cull, keeping the numbers down, while not damaging the population.

The only reason I can see people disagreeing with it is the old 'ow, but killing is eeeeevil and they're soooo cute'* sort of stuff, and frankly that doesn't hold any water whatsoever.

* They may say other things to support themselves, but that's the only reason that will get people to think it wrong, IMO.

Andy and Chinkus said it well. I live in Newfoundland and you anti- people need to really understand what you are talking about and from what I have read none of you do. You are just parroting what you have heard someone else say and object to it because they are cute.

Are you going after the polar bears and the killer whales next to make sure that they get their supper in a more humane way? Or maybe they should be vegetarians as well?

I've signed up the poor seals

I've signed, and gotten everyone in my family to sign too! :)

I've signed,got my family to as well.

ive signed up

everybody else should do

ps i dont think the link works