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Once they find the seals, the true horrific nature of this bizarre event unfolds. In the first phase of the hunt (in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, dominated by sealers from the Magdalen Islands of Quebec), sealers typically approach the seals and then club them with 'hakapiks' (long sticks with a hooked blade at one end). After clubbing the seals, they are supposed to perform the 'blinking-eye' test, checking whether the seals blink, before skinning them. If the seal is not dead, sealers may dispatch the seal with a variety of methods, including kicking in the face and/ or continuing to beat the seal pups on the head with the hakapiks. The sealer may move on to other seals before skinning them or may skin them at that time. He will drag the seal to the boat with the hook end of the hakapik. If the sealer did not bother to check whether the seal was dead, the seal may conscious when the hooked blade is plunged into its mouth or head. An analysis by a panel of veterinarians showed that about 40% of the seals are actually skinned alive.
Russia, Canada's largest pelt market, banned seal product imports in August 2011. This fantastic news means that the sealing industry will be even more decimated than it was as a result of the ban on seal product imports by the European Union in 2010.
Originally posted by sweetstuff
First of all, Canada's national sport? Maybe you should educate yourself on the facts a bit, as the majority of Canadians, myself included live no where near any seals, nor engage in any seal hunting and there have been protests, as well as letters written to parliment on the practice which I agree is horrific.
However lumping all Canadians in as seal killing clubbers would be no different than me calling all Americans war hounds, etc. Deny ignorance.
Originally posted by BobAthome
Actually if u look close,,,
most of the Seal issue,,has moved forward,,too,,
Radioactive Seals,,,keep up,,
its not Brigit Bardo,,,
and the sixties,,commrad.
un person.
Originally posted by SarnholeOntarable
reply to post by Six6Six
Yep,pretty sad eh.Poor helpless babies....what a blood bath.But still every year there's a harvest.
Off topic>Watch this kind of inhumane crap fall upon us soon
Originally posted by Six6Six
reply to post by sweetstuff
Well a country is as a country does. You have voted for your current government and they are still not acting on this quickly enough.
IT seen worldwide as a Canadian THING. Its been going on for decade!! More people in canada last year protested for the legalization of POT that for the stopping of SEAL clubbling!! Why is that?
Originally posted by Dreamer99
I am Canadian. I don't club seals. No one I know or have ever known has, to my knowledge, ever clubbed a seal. I have been aware of the problem for some time, and am not surprised by it. For you, however, to insinuate that I, a 'common Canadian', would have no problem with this is as far from the mark as you can get. Most Canadians live nowhere near any seal population, how can we rely on seal clubbing? I suppose you imagine I'm typing this from an igloo, too.
Educate yourself before you attempt to educate others.
Originally posted by Six6Six
Originally posted by SarnholeOntarable
reply to post by Six6Six
Yep,pretty sad eh.Poor helpless babies....what a blood bath.But still every year there's a harvest.
Off topic>Watch this kind of inhumane crap fall upon us soon
Im going to get all sort of crap for this from the Canadians on here. But its ok when they point out the attrocities of other countries.
Have you noticed most of the first replies to my thread bashed the Americans straight away. Even though im not American!!