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Tuesday, March 28, 2006

Traitor!


Oh no, not anther one. Yes, the parade of celebrities looking to have their name printed in the papers by protesting the seal hunt grows bigger. A lot bigger. Two big boobs bigger.

Yes, Canada's own Pamala Anderson has jumped on the bang wagon and wrote Prime Minister Stephen Harper a letter with the opening lines "As a proud Canadian who frequently travels abroad, I am alarmed that people are starting to see us as a country more beholden to a pack of greedy hunters and the seal skin fashion whims of a few countries than attentive to the massive international outcry against such a barbaric activity."

Barbaric? Hang on now, I sure hope she doesn't think by quoting Heather Mills McCartney that people are going to think she's cool. The seal hunt is not barbaric. Heather Mills McCartney thinks it is because somebody told her that the hunters use clubs, which they do not. They use rifles, like any other hunter. Do people call moose hunters barbaric for shooting a moose with a rifle? No, because moose aren't cute, cuddly animals. But even that's a weak argument, because it's not the white, cute cuddly seals that are hunted anyways. They only go after the big, fat, grey, ugly ones. But the McCartney's will never admit to that. And sure it seems a lot more graphic than shooting a moose, because, well, blood doesn't show up all that well against the foilage of a forest. But red seal blood... on white snow and ice. That shows up well.

Ya know what's a lot more barbaric than shooting a seal? Catching a fish. Think about it... if you have a choice of how you'd be killed, would you rather be shot, quick and painless... or have a hook stabbed through your face and then left to suffocate? But again, the McCartneys and other celebrities will never boycot TSN for showing sport fishing, because fish are not cute and cuddly.

2 comments:

Athique Ahmed said...

I'm from the U.K and this seal clubbing thing has been all over the papers...including loads of pictures of people not using rifles but metal ice picks...or whatever you call them, to beat the seals to death.

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