In addition, more than 400 restaurants and companies have joined our seafood boycott. Seal partisans include celebrity chefs, hot dining spots, nationally respected corporations. They are joined by nearly 220,000 individuals who have also pledged to reduce or end their Canadian seafood purchases.
The Canadian seafood industry is joined by another key Canadian industry reporting setbacks in 2005. According to the Tourism Industry Association of Canada, U.S. tourist visits to Canada are also in a steep slump. The HSUS has repeatedly asked Americans to think twice about traveling to Canada until the slaughter is ended for good.
http://www.hsus.org/marine_mammals/protect_seals/canadas_seal_hunt_paying.html
[Editor's note: This time of year, Vive gets 8-10 'End the Seal Cull' type of stories submitted a day. Usually, it's the 'drive-by' type submitter, like this anon, who will hit all Canadian discussion boards with the same story. This is the only one we'll probabaly print this year, because it's about an economic issue, not a moral one. Thanks - Dr Caleb]
[Proofreader's note: this article was edited for spelling and typos on March 24, 2006]
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Canada’S Seal Hunt: Paying The Price
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So, when the US drills for oil in the Alaskan wildlife preserve, and the inevitable oil spill happens (like it did last week near Anchorage), and villiages in the Yukon will have their only means of survival for the last 3000 years wiped out (the Caribou herd), the HSUS won't mind if we give the same advice to Canadians?
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"I think it's important to always carry enough technology to restart civilization, should it be necessary." Mark Tilden
This is a totally economic issue. If a boycott actually hurts, the seal hunt will be called off. But it has to hurt more than the revenue generated by the hunt.
That has to be the most oxymoronic phrase I have heard in years.
US delpeted uranium weapon residue contaminating Afghanistan, Iraq, and God only knows how many other parts of the world and they're concernined about baby seals?
The US is the biggest energy glutton on the planet, they consume the lion's share of reasources, and they're concerned about baby seals?
People in third world countries are dying as both direct and indirect results of US foreign policy, and they're concerned about baby seals?
Does anything else about all this love and compassion for for cute little baby seals when all the above is happening make anyone else here sick as it does me?
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"and the knowledge they fear is a weapon to be used against them"
"The Weapon" - Rush
I understand the theory of making sure your yard is clean before complaining about your neighbors, but if that was the case then Canadians shouldn't be involved in any international forum until we had established an utopian state here. Who then are we to complain about landmines, nuclear weapons or human rights while we pollute our landmass, air and water; while we have our aboriginals living in 3rd world squalor; while we have child poverty; etc...
I don't like some Yank telling us what to do with our seals either, but I'll tolerate their dissent because I want others to tolerate our own. I'll tolerate them, but I'll also tell them to go shove it (I think we agree on that point). So long as they keep bringing aged French actresses here to protest, I'm not going to worry much. You are not going to get much play in the US using anything French these days.
Canada is not a utopia, and any such place would stop being a utopia as soon as the first human being entered it.
But everything I said in my earlier post is easily verifiable, all you need to be is interested enough to look.
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"and the knowledge they fear is a weapon to be used against them"
"The Weapon" - Rush
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So both Global National and a US Consumer Protection group did a little research on this article. Here are some statistics on the groups participating in this ban:<br />
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31% of the Restaraunts are vegetarian.<br />
47% of the Restaraunts didn't serve Canadian seafood products *before* the 'ban'.<br />
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Of the restaraunts listed in the article: "Legal Sea Foods, Down East Seafood, Whole Foods Markets, Wild Oats Market, The Plitt Company, The Miami Crab Company, Palomino Foods, and Monterey Fish Market" *all* still carry Canadian seafood, and Legal Sea Foods denies it has banned Canadian Seafood.<br />
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Click on 'Troy Reeb Reports' for the whole thing.<br />
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<a href="http://www.canada.com/globaltv/national/story.html?id=34ef328c-371b-4a7a-bd57-f9e0f4194efa">http://www.canada.com/globaltv/national/story.html?id=34ef328c-371b-4a7a-bd57-f9e0f4194efa</a>#<br />
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It's pretty sad when a supposedly repected group like the US Humane society has to outright lie to make it's point.<p>---<br>"I think it's important to always carry enough technology to restart civilization, should it be necessary." Mark Tilden<br />
At last an intelligent reply.Nadinemsaunders, Thank you.
If I may add, these same hunters don't go whale hunting nor eat blubber anymore either. Spittoons and racoon hats are ways gone by as well. I had wondered as to why no complaints were ever made over the new trend of leather interiors in cars. I then realized or maybe hope, that the leather used, is the same from the livestock we eat. Seals are not killed for their meat. Canada fishing is a joke. Few Canadians eat the abundance of fish caught. The entire world is the market and the entire world has fishermen. There is no more room in the market or in the sea for what was once a lucrative endeavour. More fish nor more fishermen is ever going to bring it back.
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Expect little from life and get more from it.
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"When we are in the middle of the paradigm, it is hard to imagine any other paradigm" (Adam Smith).
I guess that would depend on how many shells were needed to make a coat for the wealthy and how much of the lobster is used for food. Fish aren't cute or cuddly and mostly used for food, yet over-fishing is a concern. Animal-rights activists don't storm fishing grounds but then that is a different matter.
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Expect little from life and get more from it.