Help End the Cruel Harp Seal Hunt

<10x@teluös.net> wrote in message news:mqalv2ljb48r85l6g36biaii0ekr21e5bs@4ax.com...
> On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 13:33:32 -0000, "pearl" <tea.RemoveThis@signguestbook.ie>
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> >"SaPeIsMa" <SaPeIsMa.RemoveThis@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:12vl4ie6jc0oc0c@corp.supernews.com...
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> >> "pearl" <tea.RemoveThis@signguestbook.ie> wrote in message
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> >> > "Arved Sandstrom" <asandstrom.RemoveThis@accesswave.ca> wrote in message
> >> > news:320Kh.115098$cE3.90778@edtnps89...
> >> >> "
> >> >> Why? Unless you're a vegetarian, tell me why seals are not meant to be
> >> >> eaten, but poultry, cattle and fish are.
> >> >
> >> > "[Animals] were not made for humans any more than black
> >> > people were made for whites or women for men." - Alice Walker
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >> And who is Alice Walker that we should take her seriously ?
> >
> >http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22alice+walker%22&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
> >
>
> She writes excellent fiction. Good credentials for environmental
> comment...

She has excellent credentials for social commentary.

'Alice Walker was active in the Civil Rights Movement of the
1960's, and in the 1990's she is still an involved activist. She
has spoken for the women's movement, the anti-apartheid
movement, for the anti-nuclear movement, and against female
genital mutilation.
.......'
http://www.luminarium.org/contemporary/alicew/

<10x@teluös.net> wrote in message news:05blv2996k4vjj3s3bmqn12aub4nrtd9le@4ax.com...
> On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 14:11:51 -0000, "pearl" <tea.RemoveThis@signguestbook.ie>
> wrote:
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> ><10x@teluös.net> wrote in message news:hg3lv219gjv8ab3u1hakfgaeov6oi03erf@4ax.com...
> >> On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 12:23:01 -0000, "pearl" <tea.RemoveThis@signguestbook.ie>
> >> wrote:
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> >> ><10x@teluös.net> wrote in message news:9lghv2dtq5g0nura5t5oneojikgeqjv8i2@4ax.com...
> >> >> On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 14:17:30 -0000, "pearl" <tea.RemoveThis@signguestbook.ie>
> >> >> wrote:
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> >> >> >> >http://venus.nildram.co.uk/veganmc/polemics.htm
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> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> So what do those who hunt seals turn to for food
> >> >> >
> >> >> >In this "hunt" most of the meat is left on the ice.
> >> >>
> >> >> Where it is utilized by birds, and eventually fish.
> >> >> Remember seals eat fish. Sometimes the shoe is on the other foot...
> >> >
> >> >Read these pages:
> >> >
> >> >Something is Rotten in the Gulf of St. Lawrence:
> >> >Eco-logical reasons to abolish the Canadian harp seal hunt
> >> >http://www.fisherycrisis.com/seals/hypoxia.htm
> >> >http://www.fisherycrisis.com/seals/rottenhypocrisy.htm
> >>
> >>
> >> There is something rotten in the gulf of St Lawrence. It came out of
> >> the sewers and tailpipes of all of the factories and homes in the
> >> watershed that drained into the St. Lawrence drainage.
> >> Seals have very little to do with it other than they suffer the
> >> pollution.
> >
> >False. Read those pages.
>
> You are wrong. THose pages only tell part of the story. The St.
> Lawrence has served as a sewer for Upper and lower Canada, Northern
> New York State, and Michigan for at least 200 years. There is 200
> years plus of industrial pollution there. To blame it on seal hunters
> who are active for two to three weeks a year is ludicrous.

'The Canadian harp seal hunt is doubly injurious to the health of the
ecosystem in the Gulf of St. Lawrence because, not only are large
numbers of important predator/scavengers prevented from
performing their natural ecosystem-cleansing role, but massive
numbers of seal corpses are dumped in the Gulf yearly and allowed
to rot on bottom. There is nothing living in this region today that is
capable of consuming thousands of tons of dead seal flesh.that is,
there is nothing there that can do this job except oxygen-greedy
bacteria. This presents a second compelling eco-logical reason* for
imposing an immediate ban on seal hunting in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
.....'
http://www.fisherycrisis.com/seals/hypoxia.htm

'DFO scientists have recently published their finding that a massive
region of the Gulf contains bottom water oxygen levels so low today
that cod and other fish can be (and likely are being) sickened or
killed as a result. The cod stock in the northern Gulf is in such bad
shape that it has been listed under the Species At Risk Act. Under
the Fisheries Act it is illegal to damage fish habitat by adding any
"deleterious substance" to the water. "Deleterious" to current
conditions in the Gulf is the addition of any more rot-fodder to
the bottom water, because such pollution will only cause hypoxic
conditions to intensify. This is not a new concept.

Why, then, does DFO allow seal hunters to abandon hundreds of
thousands of seal corpses on the ice in the middle of the Gulf?
Sealers normally remove only the pelts, and leave the seal corpses
to rot. This practice, added to unknown numbers of wounded seals
that escape to die later, results in a rain of sinking, rotting seal
corpses that can only work to further stifle - quite literally - the
recovery of cod stocks. Dead seal flesh dumped annually into the
waters of the Gulf by sealers likely exceeds 1000 tons, and the
ensuing rot can certainly suffocate cod. However, no permits for
"at sea disposal" of bulk organic waste appear to have been issued
to the sealers, (although the law normally requires permits for the
disposal of far smaller quantities of fish waste), and no appropriate
"environmental impact assessment" has been done (although, as
the agency responsible for enabling the seal hunt, DFO is obliged
to do this under the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act).
What a mess - and to think that this seal hunt has been sold to the
public as a "cod stock recovery plan."
.....'
http://www.fisherycrisis.com/seals/rottenhypocrisy.htm