Wednesday May 6, 2009, 3:15 am
OTTAWA — The federal government has a strong case to launch a World Trade Organization challenge to a European ban on seal products because the decision was based on "people's feelings" rather than hard facts, says Trade Minister Stockwell Day.


"We're moving ahead with an appeal," Day told Canwest News Service on Tuesday, warning that the trade action will proceed unless the European Union Parliament exempts Canada and other countries that he said practise humane and sustainable seal hunting.


"We'll go to the WTO because it's clear in WTO regulations that if one country wants to ban the products of another, it has to have clear scientific, medically acceptable reasons for doing so, and this EU ban is not based on hard science."


The EU Parliament voted 550-49 Tuesday to eliminate seal product imports — such as such as pelts, oil, and meat — a prohibition that would mean a $2.4 million loss for the Canadian industry.


The proposal still must be approved by individual European governments before becoming law and if passed, it could take effect as early as 2010 in the 27 EU nations.


The law would include some exemptions to Inuit communities so they can continue their traditional hunts.


Day said that the vote was based on emotion rather than facts because opponents portray the seal hunt as it was 40 years ago.


But he said that it has changed and Canada deserves an exemption because it follows internationally accepted guidelines. Among other things, Canada no longer allows the clubbing of baby seals while they still have their white coats.


Fisheries Minister Gail Shea defended the government's planned trade action, a challenge that could turn out to be relatively expensive, given that the entire Canadian industry, based on the East Coast, is worth an estimated $7 million.


"When you live in small coastal communities, sometimes there's not many opportunities to make some additional money," she said on Parliament Hill. "We have a number of families who make up to 35 per cent of their annual income from the seal hunt. So yes, I do think it's very important."


Shea described the European Parliament's decision as a "politically motivated" one that was driven by special interest groups who have "spent a lot of money misleading the public in Europe" for decades.


Shea singled out French actress Brigitte Bardot, one of the first of many celebrities to attack the seal hunt. Her high-profile campaign included a 1977 trip to the ice floes off the East Coast, where a famous photograph was taken of her holding a baby seal.


The European Parliament's move pitted sealers against animal-rights groups, who have decried the annual spring seal hunt as barbaric.


"This is a historic moment in the campaign to stop commercial seal hunts around the world," said Rebecca Aldworth, director of the Humane Society International Canada, adding that European parliamentarians who supported the law held up photographs and stuffed seal toys before the vote.


Earle McCurdy, president of the Fish, Food and Allied Workers union could not contain his anger toward the EU Parliament.


"They are trying to tell us how to live, to pass judgment on how we live with no regards whatsoever for the impact a growing seal population would have on our fish stocks," he said.


Robert Courtney, president of the North of Smokey Fishermen's Association in Nova Scotia, said the government will have to cull the fish-preying seal herd if the ban goes ahead and sealers are no longer motivated to hunt.


Newfoundland Premier Danny Williams called on the Conservative government to retaliate by walking away from a pending trade deal with the European Union being negotiated at a Canada-EU summit in Prague.


"While this vote is certainly a blow to the Canadian sealing industry, it comes at a time when the Government of Canada is very well positioned to deliver a strong message to the European Union," Williams said in a statement.


He also called on Harper to urge EU countries to reject the seal ban.


In the House of Commons, MPs from all parties voted to hold a debate Tuesday night to take note "that the seal hunt is a humane and legitimate economic pursuit, and that the European Parliament's recent decision to ban the importation of seal products is misinformed, inflammatory, counterproductive, and should be rejected."


The Department of Fisheries estimates the seal population in Canada at about 5.6 million. It sets an annual quota for the hunt, which this spring was 280,000. The bulk of the country's 7,000 sealers are based in Newfoundland.

Wednesday May 6, 2009, 3:48 am
IF THE CANANDIAN GOVRMENT IS SO CONCERNED ABOUT THE INCOME FOR ITS RESIDENTS THEY SHOULD SUBSIDICE THEM NOT TO HUNT .
CASH IS NO EXCUSE FOR HUNTING SEALS

Wednesday May 6, 2009, 4:07 am
True civilization starts on the day we don't make a "living" with the killings of our fellow species the animals.

Quote: When all the trees have been cut down, when all the animals have been hunted, when all the waters are polluted, when all the air is unsafe to breathe, only then will you discover you cannot eat money. - Cree Prophecy -

Quote: While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?
--George Bernard Shaw--

Quote: "There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion,
but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to animals as well as man it is all a sham.”
--Anna Sewell--

I can't and will not believe that the human being, the so called "thinking person", can't find a peaceful way to live in harmony and peace with all our animals.
I can't and will not accept that the only way to control the numbers of wildlife / animals can only be done by killing them.
My only question is: is mankind só incompetent, as a "higher" being, that killing will be his only answer....???

Noted with thanks Claudia

Wednesday May 6, 2009, 4:29 am
Now is the time to stop regarding life forms & ecosystems as commodities. Now is the time to insist upon superior ethics and compassion,; to disregard the lies and distortions of financial interests and unwholesome traditions. Now !

Wednesday May 6, 2009, 4:54 am
amazing how any country can try to rationalize their vicious slaughter of any animal by deeming it necessary for human survival. aren't we fortunate that animals don't think that way? Day is a selfish s.o.b.,he is proving he cares nothing for the people, only for the money he will miss.
ty Claudia

Wednesday May 6, 2009, 5:02 am
Some really scary comments on that blog - but the newest one is really good -
"Linda
May 05, 2009 - 4:08
The time has come for change. I am tired of my TAX $$ being used to support the seal hunt which I oppose. 13Million dollars is what the govt says will be lost. In the big scheme of things this is nothing, compared to our govt making threat of banning sales to Europe!!! That is only $25 BILLION a year. common guys get your act together. Not only has this seal hunt hurt us financially and will continue to hurt us, if the try to fight the EU, (out of our pockets), it has put Canada into a position with other countries in the world as being barbaric. We all know the overfishing is the problem of the lack of cod fish in our water, but our government and sealers/fisherman have to point their fingers at the seals. The seals/cod were just fine until we overfished the COD. Another issue that our Canadian government choosed to igonore until it was too late! They were told a long time ago to put a ban on cod fishing, and they refused to listen until it was to late! Now we blame the seals! Please do not waste my TAX $$ anymore support this outdated/and barbaric seal hunt! Time to move on Mr. DAY and do the job you were voted in to do. There are other issues at hand you could be spending your time one. Most Canadians do not want this seal hunt to continue!"

Wednesday May 6, 2009, 5:56 am
I HAVE SIGNED A LOT OF ANIMAL RIGHTS PETITIONS, but it was becoming clearer and clearer, on the pattern, against free enterprise!!! Sure animals need right also, but at what cost, my brothers fur trapping business was destroyed, by the barbaric tactics of the animal rights gangs, I need to convince him to write a book, they cost him thousands in sabotage, thievery, trickery and deceit, are these the tactics of righteous people, of zealots, hell bent on destroying man kind??? Last week an animal rights activist, refused my friend request, just because I was a civil rights activist, now I know why: because they are against civil rights!!! I TOLD MY SELF A WHILE BACK, that the first time I heard that these petitions caused human suffering, would be the last time that I would ever sign one!!! I did not sign the last seal petition, because it plainly stated that it was against the sealing industry as a whole!!! However, I read one letter here that said that their is no ban against all sealers, that would make this ban economic hypocrisy, against a chosen few!!!
The anti sealers may have won, one battle, but lost this activist, and just may have created an opponent, "the truth shall set us free" and lies, slander, misinformation, propaganda,and intimidation, are not forms of truth!!!

Wednesday May 6, 2009, 6:19 am
Is there not enough economic hardship already??? Is their not enough commodities on the "BLACK MARKET" as it already stands??? Laws only create outlaws, they turn common people into criminals, just to survive!!! NO PROHIBITION, has ever solved the intended problem, they have only created monopolies, and criminals, the seals will suffer more, when outlawed, because humanity goes right out the window!!! Who will benefit from this prohibition??? Who funded it??? the competition??? How much tax payer money will it cost to retrain those who lost their trades, and in unemployment benefits...!!!
We need to work toward balance and moderation, as Jesus taught, not abstinence as the "NOT-SEES"!!! CAN'T WE ALL JUST GET ALONG??? Why does everything have to be a war of all or nothing??? I for one am sick of this division!!! I would have to agree with SHAKESPERE "KILL ALL OF THE LAWYERS", FOR THEY MAKE MONEY FROM BOTH SIDES OF EVERY ISSUE THAT THEY CAN DIVIDE!!! UNITED WE STAND, DIVIDED WE HAVE FALLEN!!! DIVIDED AND CONQUERED!!!

Wednesday May 6, 2009, 7:29 am
Chief Dubie i agree with a lot that you have said,but why does it always have to be about money,yes we all have to make a living,but man is too greedy,regards your brothers fur business,yes some activists can be over the top,i don't know all the details,but sorry, im glad there will be less animals killed because of what happened to your brothers fur business. Im proud to call myself a animal activist,nothing over the top i might add.

Wednesday May 6, 2009, 7:36 am
I agree with you on they lawyers issue CHIEF DUBIE! but on the other hand where would we be without them if to convict all the murderers chiefs and exstorsoinists this world knows! We don't live in a pretty world and it would be an utopia to think we ever will. Human kind is to complex for that. But we can still hope! I know the annimal rights activists have been known to use onorthodox measures to get the job done, but that's born out of disspair, when you walk into a brick wall time after time you tend to( at one point ) go for the same tactics the opponent usses, sabotage, thievery, trickery and deciet.( you fight fire with fire) Those are mankind tacticks as long as man has walkt the earth and ( sad to say) will always be. They only thing we can do is find a way in between, and that's the hard part. But I'm convinced that there's no need for this seal industry as a whole, it's a sad thing the way these pour creatures are slaugterd and get the blame for the lack of fish in the sea. It's not for me to judge your brother's fur trapping buseniss although the picture in my mind makes a grewsom one. The only honorable way was the indian way they respected the annimal they pict to kill to eat and clothes them. The reason they kill annimals today has for the most part to do with money, the bic bucs and holds no regard what so ever for the annimal they are killing!! We don't need there skin, seal skin or any kind for that matter to get dressed there are plenty of other option's for that. Don't get me wrong I eat my piece of meat,... but very little, we don't need that much to stay healthy anyway. Think if we all ate meat only once a week things would look a whole lot prettier in a decade or two. And sure a lot of people would be forced to look for another proffesion( like meat farmers for instance) but man survives, they always have and always will, it's in there nature, they addapt. But killing harmless annimals just for there skin can in my view not be counted as a profession, it's plain murder!
I realise reading your story, this put's me in a difficult position to, being both for annimal and human rights!!
Again there must be a middleway!!
But plz don't give up on the annimal rights issue!!
I will be your friend if you like!
You can't be all that bad! LOL!

Wednesday May 6, 2009, 7:55 am
Have you ever seen what a boycott can do to someone's economy. Once thaey permenantly ban the seal hunt, those opposed to it need to give Canada their business in support.

Wednesday May 6, 2009, 10:05 am
Thankz Claudia, the Canadian minister of fisheries Loyola Hearn sux...

Wednesday May 6, 2009, 10:39 am
The Seals do not belong to Canada, they belong to the Earth. They belong to all people to care for them, no one has the right to kill them.

Wednesday May 6, 2009, 3:04 pm
Cannot belive in this (excuse me), shit ! Again and again and again....!And again! EUROPE made a decision, people of EUROPE made a choise! BAN SEALS PRODUCTS! WHAT PART canada DO NOT UNDERSTAND! WHAT A HELL! EUROPE IS A CIVILIZED UNION! EUROPE HAS YOUR OWN CRITERIA FOR DECISIONS, WHAT ONLY LINKS IT AND HIS CITIZENS THEY CONCERN, IT DOES NOT OWE JUSTIFICATIONS TO ANY COUNTRY! RIGHT! IS THAT CLEAR canada!? I´M RAGE AND VERY FURIOUS, YES I AM..! #######

Wednesday May 6, 2009, 3:28 pm
You must remember everything as what's going on now until the end of time we are going to be challenged with Dark Entities (People as this, always going against the grain of salt) it's written in their choice of action before coming back here..But it's 100% up to us to find a legitimate choice in handling these affairs in making the right decision for every single animal on land to the mammals in the deepest of our Gigantic Oceans. If we all come together in the most Positive affect in dealing with these matters I guarantee you, we will come out in the favoritism in turning the Law around to protect our Rights for the Seals and all else that we are protecting the right of.

Wednesday May 6, 2009, 3:42 pm
In the last 100 years, the world has changed dramatically and the wide open spaces have been taken over by the huge growth in human population and many animals have been hunted to near extinction or just had their lands taken for food production and their numbers have dropped dramatically. Even the reserves (a tiny area from that they used to roam) that they live in are being abused by the local populations causing a clash between them and the animals they are supposed to protect. There is now an economic shift in that people now want exotic pets so huge numbers of the animals are killed to take the young who often die from ignorance. The few remaining survivors of a species are hunted for their value in Chinese medicine, exotic food eaten in Indonesia or their tusks providing poachers with a small amount of easy money and a giant loss to the species.

The other change during these years is industry, belching out uncontrolled pollution from the mercury in the Amazon to the clouds of carbon monoxide from fossil fuel and the dumping of rubbish in the oceans leading the animals to suffer from becoming toxic to themselves, the predators and, ultimately, to us.

Because of this, I believe that what is left of the wildlife (land, air & sea) and the plant life belongs to the world and that the countries have an obligation to protect them.

This means, to me, that the objection of virtually the entire world to seal cubbing (not just Canada) should be faced by the Canadian government along with the fact that they can no longer prove that this mass slaughter is sustainable.

We need to continue to refuse to deal with companies that use skin or sell it as cubbing continues in other countries as does fur farming.

I understand where Chief Dubie is coming from but all animal suffering comes from human exploitation because of economics. Remove the outlets and let the sealers retrain, other people have done. I have retrained from the job that I first did (not to do with animals) so has my husband, life is tough - deal with it. In fact, if you want to consider the fishermen, they have massively overfished the seas for just about everything and there needs to be a moratorium on fishing world wide. They are taking their own jobs away and destroying the oceans at the same time. Where is the sustainability of that?

In fact, we need to review all forms of animal cruelty as it appears that the ill treatment duing the disgusting methods of factory farming in Mexico may have been the source of the Swine Flu. When we talk about peoples' rights to economically ill treat and abuse domestic or wild animals for the sale of money, then we condemn ourselves morally and physically.

Wednesday May 6, 2009, 4:22 pm
They're scared... obviously. =)

Wednesday May 6, 2009, 4:47 pm
@Gail Shea: I have nothing to say but ...I`m giving you the finger!!
As I have stated before , WTO stands for World Terrorist Organization , so anything could happen but I hope The EU wins!!!!
Long Live The Seals!!!

Wednesday May 6, 2009, 6:38 pm
There is no contradiction in being an animals' rights defender and being a human rights defender, there's no contradiction in being rational and having feelings... I am a human rights activist and an animals' rights defender as well because I feel that all living creatures are my brothers and sisters; I am completelly able to think rationally about all this on the basis of my knowledge and beliefs' system.
As part of a global community, we have the right of questioning and proposing new laws to protect those who cannot defend from themselves, and that's what is taking place nowadays. The traditional way of life is not always the best, and seals' hunters could adapt to other ways of living that don't imply cruelty against defenseless creatures, but, again, we need a broad consensus (proper legislation) together with individual attitudes that don´t promote seals fur commerce. But... these attitudes are obtained through education, and, again, we need consensus and legislation to promote them!
Rounding off, values change and laws change too. Let's include everybody's rights (taking into account all living creatures) in the new agenda.
Forgive my English, it's my second language... :-)))

Wednesday May 6, 2009, 8:39 pm
"I do not see a delegation for the Four Footed. I see no seat for the Eagles. We forget and we consider ourselves superior. But we are after all a mere part of Creation. And we must consider to understand where we are. And we stand somewhere between the mountain and the Ant. Somewhere and only there as part and parcel of the Creation." - Chief Oren Lyons, Oneida in an address to the Non-Governmental Organizations of the United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland, 1977

Wednesday May 6, 2009, 8:52 pm
I did not intend to offend any one, I think that the whole world is out of balance, including my self, I have been on a 45 hour hunger strike
http://www.care2.com/c2c/groups/disc.html?gpp=21011&pst=1204776, we all have the same enemy, the worlds governments, with their greed, and special privilege!!! For all of our sakes, animals and plants included, we need to find balance, dare I say that we need to learn to compromise!!!
Condemning the fur trade did not save one animals life, drive down any road in the world, and you can't help but notice that it is littered with the carcases of those animals that we forbidden to free enterprise, because the oil companies, can make more synthetic materials!!! The same with the war against Hemp, the only thing that you can't make from oil that you can make with Hemp, is pollution!!! Yes Hemp is the most useful plant on earth, it would end world hunger, end the greenhouse effect, end the fuel crisis, but the government gave out sovernity, and our free enterprise to the monopolies, such as the oil gangsters!!!
My wife just did 3 months in jail for back child support, yet her Mom and I have been paying this ransom, because of our bigoted society, she can not get a job, because she is a convicted felon, for back child support!!!
We all have a right to be gainfully employed, in a world where money is everything!!! I had to be retrained so many times, I am untrainable!!! And the government tried to murder all of us Hippies in St. Louis in 1984, with yuppie flu/ cfids, in tainted Hawaiian Ganja bud from the government!!! Zero tolerance means zero Hippies!!! The constitution did not give animals rights over humans, or human rights over animals, or children rights over those of the parents, or parents the right to murder their children!!!
You just can't create balance out of an imbalance, without compromise, and zero anything is out of balance!!!
I don't want to outlaw vegans, but they sure want to out law meat eaters, no balance just total control, over what I eat!!! Wild animals need wild habitat, but it is legal to cut down their whole world, but the logging industry, has learned to replenish the Forrest, or there will be none!!! Replenish, is the name of the game, no more extinctions, including peoples!!! We need to figure out what a healthy population would consist of, maintain that level, since we dare play god, in the first place...control...guarantee everyone dignity of life with a job, since we are less than animals, without money, we have no sanctuary, no reserve, no right to live off of the land!!! If you let any species, bread unchecked, you will have an imbalance that will be unrepairable!!! That is why the worlds governments, have decided to reduce the worlds population to 500,000,000,that is one half of billion, from the 12 billion on the earth!!! GUESS WHAT??? ALL FREE THINKERS ARE ON THAT EXTERMINATION LIST, THAT INCLUDES ME, AND PERHAPS YOU!!! All life will cease to exist without balance, and as the governments pick and choose who will live and who will be eaten, they have lost respect for anything but money!!! It took a lot of money to wage this seal campaign, why, because someone or something will benefit monetarily!!! It is always about the money!!!
Read the next 20 animal petitions, how many are at war against an industry of the ages??? Robin hood said that the king did not own the wildlife, but all of our petitions has given the king ownership of all life!!! We have given the government control of our reproductive organs, our lungs, our blood, our air, our water... in fact, name one thing that we have not given authority of over to the government!!! Everything and everyone is connected, and if one falls, we will all eventually fall, and the zero dominoes, are falling all around us!!!
Every law that we pass comes with some kind of enforcement, until all we will have left is enforcers, and offenders, time to build a fence around the world, we take our statice quo for granted, while we deny others the same respect!!! More people work for the government, than in the free market as it is!!! Since the fake fuel crisis of the '70s Americas jobs have left the country like the passengers of the Titanic, THEN THE FLOODGATES WERE OPENED FOR ILLEGALS TO FILL ALL OF THE JOBS, THAT ALL OF THE POW'S OF THE DRUG WARS LEFT OPEN!!!Now the war against living off of the land and free enterprise, is turning the rest of us non governmental legions, into slaves!!! Take our jobs, give us money!!! WHY IS IT LEGAL TO PUSH PEOPLE ONER THE EDGE, BUT AGAINST THE LAW TO BE THE ONE BEING PUSHED???

Wednesday May 6, 2009, 9:57 pm
Dubie,
Your not off the mark at all. As I have lived in the Pacific Northwest my entire life I have witnessed the destruction of the wild places. The destroying of land, air and water...and the murdering of the vital predators that kept the balance in nature for millions of years. Why? Human arrogance and greed for not just money but self satisfying arrogance.

For anyone that is interest about just how the farming and ranching was subsidized by your own tax dollars...and still is today..follow the links below. A great read for your own education, and perhaps you won't just drive that farm anymore without being angry at our government for what they have used your hard earned money for.


Welfare Ranching: The Subsidized Destruction of the American West
http://www.publiclandsranching.org/book.htm


http://www.care2.com/news/member/562953694?sort=submitted

Welfare Ranching: The Subsidized Destruction of the American West PART VI False Hopes and Counterarguments: Ways to Stay Blind

Welfare Ranching: The Subsidized Destruction of the American West:Ranching Economics and Livestock Subsidies: The True Cost of a


PRAIRIE DOG GONE :Livestock and Exotic Weeds in the Intermountain West


A WEST WITHOUT WOLVES :The Livestock Industry Hamstrings Wolf Recovery

RANCHING IN BEAR COUNTRY: Conflict and Conservation

GUZZLING THE WEST'S WATER : Squandering a Public Resource at Public Expense

LAND HELD HOSTAGE A History of Livestock and Politics

Welfare Ranching: The Subsidized Destruction: Ranching Myths Ranchers Are Good Stewards of the Land: TRUTH


What You Don't Know: Welfare Ranching - Public Lands Grazing

Earth Satellites Tell the Truth: Grazing Threatens Wildlife Habitat in West

Buffalo Field Campaign

Thursday May 7, 2009, 12:21 am
And the truth will set you free,Natives americans believe Animals are our brothers and equal to us.The creator made these creatures,not for us to kill to extinction.Of course if you thinking about money,then they don't matter.Animals were here first,and they deserve respect.If you can't understand that go on spiritual vision quest.Humans are disconnected thats why all this bloodshed is happening.

Thursday May 7, 2009, 3:45 am
I don't recall ever being taught that civil rights gives us the right to destroy another life. people get so caught up in what they want and need and completely forget all else. we have NO RIGHT to slaughter for our own selfish gain.
thank you David t. well put.

Thursday May 7, 2009, 6:35 am
Elephants, are still being slaughtered, despite the ban, ivory has gone up, just because it is forbidden, the black market thrives when the free market is no longer free!!! Drugs are plentiful, despite being on the Black market!!! Guns are plentiful, in fact you can get almost anything that you'd ever want from the under ground market place!!! Prohibitions and boycotts, are just playing into these gangsters hands, just give them something else to control!!!
I agree that the seal hunt is a barbaric practice, but mankind can be barbaric from time to time, the justice and prison system is barbaric, but we must remember that it is these barbarians, that rule the world, war is barbaric, to animals as well as people, yet it is legal, where are your petitions against war???...
Is there actually a humane way to murder??? Don't hold my hand, while you stab me in the back!!! Go to any food processing plant, and you will see slaughter, from chickens, to cattle...their lives are as brutal as their deaths!!!
No one seems to want to look in the mirror at themselves, it is easier and more profitable to look at and judge others, there is not one person worthy enough to cast a stone at another living soul, but never no shortage of stones flying!!!
I do agree that we have used up our planet, and it has become time to sow rather than reap, we have used up our fresh water, fresh air, natural resources, Forrest, seas and oceans, yet capitalism requires more, and more, I'm am not a capitalist, I'm a realist, if I had my way I would shut down the machine for a thousand years, as it states in the Bible "remember this my children, that a thousand years to man, is but a day to the creator, but remember the sabbath!!! We have forgotten the sabbath, as well as the moral of the story!!! You can even buy real estate on the moon, capitalism has no bounds!!!
Alexander the Greats plan of world conquest was "DIVIDE AND CONQUER" and even on this site we seem to be divided, it groups, animal vs human, this division will conquer us all!!! I don't condone the slaughter of defenseless animals or people, but the animal rights people seem to forget that even humans are animals, and the human rights people may forget that animals have rights also, but in true reality both issues are but one: all live is sacred, but so is the right to live!!! Mankind, has been living off of animal slaughter from the beginning of time, and that at the end of every age, we turn upon our selves and devour ourselves, and this time may be the rule, not the exception!!! All of these industries that are under attack, were well established, even before the fascist were thought of, and if we are not mature enough to find a compromise, than we are not human enough to be the top of the food chain, and will be replaced, just like our predecessors, the Dinosaurs!!!

Thursday May 7, 2009, 7:51 am
Chief Dubie im pleased to read your a realist,me too,its a mad terrible world out there,in all forms of things,sorry to read your wife was in prison,i just wanted to say,man has to change,we all have too,the world is so corrupt,and personly im sick of it,anyway this is about the seals and Canada and its a good start to stop this cruelty.I've read your posts with respect and interest.Thank you.

Thursday May 7, 2009, 9:43 am
This is BS, this ban should take place world wide and the US is doing nothing in getting the seal products banned. This is not based on emotion, seal hunting does not bring in that much revenue. thanks Claudia

Thursday May 7, 2009, 1:34 pm
Everybody stand strong. We do not need the blood money.Also how healthy is it for a grown person to beat something to death. I can't imagine its good. Harper's a fool if he rejects the ban. Good for you EU.

Thursday May 7, 2009, 2:25 pm
THe thought that came to me when I heard Canada was defending their stance on seal slaughter is we need to evolve. At one time, people also thought it was 'right' and honest and lucrative to have slaves. There is NO excuse for the slaughter to continue. Money is NOT the be-all and end-all of the planet! There are many, many ways for the government to find the money with cut backs( in unnecessary expenditures) to compensate sealers.

Thursday May 7, 2009, 5:28 pm
I agree David T. Why do they think they have to kill and kill they don't. It's all about greed and green backs!!! Stop the stupid stinken killings!!!! we are not superior over animals at all,.Thanks Claudia

Thursday May 7, 2009, 6:08 pm
okay for those who don't know i'm canadain and against the seal hunt have been for approx 30 years -

just had a conversation with someone from newfoundland - he informed me that if someone clubs a seal - like in the tape from the maratines nova scotia - they will shot him and leave him to die - that's the newfies point of view - they don't club to them it's illegal - like both side of the stories -

me i know what politics are involved - i have always blamed our own coast guard for other countries overfishing in our waters - and our own government cannot afford to protect our waters - so - the easy way out is to let the citizens think that it's the seals that take the cod stock - not the other countries - ...... you figure out the rest ... and i'm still against the seal hunt no matter what - and the government of canada are fools to think that it is acceptable behaviour -

Thursday May 7, 2009, 6:16 pm
sorry meant to say that a newfie would shoot another person and leave him to die if he was to club a seal - CLUBBING is illegal in Newfoundland...

Thursday May 7, 2009, 11:53 pm
Native american made offering and prayers to the animals before they were killed.They used every part of the animals,nothing was wasted.Inuit indians still practice this,Skinning defendless animals while still alive is beyond cruelity.I hope the same fate falls on these cowards,despicle subhumans.Remember what goes around comes around...

Friday May 29, 2009, 1:43 pm
I am a Canadian and we all agree that Stockwell Day is an asshole. This sadly does not surprise me.

Saturday May 30, 2009, 6:39 am
As I posted on the following article, I will post it again here...misinformation about diet, and the need to break away from old habits, and bad diet habits that SRE NOT HEALTHY DESPITE WHAT ONE'S CULTURE HAS PRACTICED FOR GENERATIONS.

Governor General eats raw seal heart to support hunter
http://www.care2.com/news/member/228611102/1151583

Thursday May 28, 2009, 11:42 pm
Okay Diane & Ic=van...
If you will listen instead of insisting that the seal hunt is the be all end all of the Inuit existence perhaps you can learn a few things.
I am an Alaskan. I am a retired nurse.
The health of the Inuit in Alaska, and most cultures that rely 100% on sealWhy? Becuase they have relied so heavily on this diet their diabetes is increasing.
Why? Because their diets DO NOT INCLUDE ALL OTHER HEALTHY FOODS LIKE VEGGIESS AND DAIRY PRODUCTS AND FRUIT, WHEAT AND GRAIN PRODUCTS.
IN FACT THEY ARE UNDERWEIGHT AND NOT HEALTHY BECAUSE THEY RELY ON THIS AS THEIR ONLY STAPLES.
YOU CANNOT HAVE THIS AS A STEADY DIET BECAUSE IT WILL KILL YOU OR REDUCE YOUR HEALTH PROGRESSIVELY.
THE HUMAN BODY HAS TO HAVE THE BALANCE DIET OF MANY FOODS AND NOT ALL FISH AND THE DEAL MEAT AND BY PRODUCTS THEREOF.
THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT LEARNED A LONG TIME AGO THE WAY TO PLACATE THE NATIVE PEOPLE IS BY CONTINUING THE HABITS AND WAY OF LIFE THAT THE NATIVE PEOPLE HAVE ALWAYS HAD....BY NOT HELPING THEM WITH THE PROGRESS OF OF CHANGE...THEY HAVE BENEFITTED AND PLACTED AND KEPT THOSE THAT HAVE RELIED ON THE INDUSTRY FOR A REASON.... DOWN....FOR THE NATIVE AND PEOPLE THAT HAVE LIVIED NO OTHER LIFESTYLE..AND KEPT THE COST DOWN FOR THE GOVERNMENT.
THINK IT OUT FOLKS.

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NOW PLEASE CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING....

"If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men..." ~ St. Francis of Assisi, Roman Catholic friar, founder of the Franciscans order

"Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man." ~ Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

"Love of animals is a universal impulse, a common ground on which all of us may meet. By loving and understanding animals, perhaps we humans shall come to understand each other." ~ Dr. Louis J. Camuti, first US veterinarian to devote his practice to felines only

"He who harms animals has not understood or renounced deeds of sin ... Those whose minds are at peace and who are free from passions do not desire to live at the expense of others." ~ from Acharanga Sutra - Jainism - Non-Vedic Religion of Old India

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"Murderers ... very often start out by killing and torturing animals as kids." ~ Robert K. Ressler, Former FBI Serial Killer Profiler

"If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men..." ~ St. Francis of Assisi, Roman Catholic friar, founder of the Franciscans order

"The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them, that's the essence of inhumanity." ~ George Bernard Shaw, Irish Playwright and Essayist

"The animal liberation movement is saying that where animals and humans have similar interests - we might take the interest in avoiding physical pain as an example, for it is an interest that humans clearly share with other animals - those interests are to be counted equally, with no automatic discount just because one of the beings is not human." ~ Peter Singer, Australian Animal Activist

"Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages." ~ Thomas Edison, American Inventor and Scientist

"Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man." ~ Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

"We have enslaved the rest of animal creation and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form." ~ William Ralph Inge, British Author

"Living with animals can be a wonderful experience, especially if we choose to learn the valuable lessons animals teach through their natural enthusiasm, grace, resourcefulness, affection and forgiveness." ~ Richard H. Pitcairn, American Veterinarian, Pet Nutritionist and Author

"Most people have forgotten how to live with living creatures, with living systems and that, in turn, is the reason why man, whenever he comes into contact with nature, threatens to kill the natural system in which and from which he lives." ~ Konrad Lorenz, Naturalist

"For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love." ~ Pythagoras, Pre-Socratic Greek Philosopher

"I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground." (Reply to friends who chided him for delaying them by stopping to return a fledgling to its nest.) ~ Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States

"Love of animals is a universal impulse, a common ground on which all of us may meet. By loving and understanding animals, perhaps we humans shall come to understand each other." ~ Dr. Louis J. Camuti, first US veterinarian to devote his practice to felines only

"He who harms animals has not understood or renounced deeds of sin ... Those whose minds are at peace and who are free from passions do not desire to live at the expense of others." ~ from Acharanga Sutra - Jainism - Non-Vedic Religion of Old India

"Atrocities are no less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called 'medical research.' " ~ George Bernard Shaw, Irish Playright and Critic

"Show me the enforced laws of a state for the prevention of cruelty to animals and I in turn will give you a correct estimate of the refinement, enlightenment, integrity and equity of that commonwealth's people." ~ L.T. Danshiell, Animal Rights Advocate

"The awful wrongs and sufferings forced upon the innocent, helpless, faithful animal race form the blackest chapter in the whole world's history." ~ Edward Freeman, English Historian and Commentator

"Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be touched gently, because the time is short. Civilization is another word for respect for life...." - Elizabeth Goudge, author of The Joy of the Snow

"If [man] is not to stifle his human feelings, he must practise kindness towards animals, for he who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals." ~ Immanuel Kant, German Philosopher

"I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs ...[they] are an obligation put on us, a responsibility we have no right to neglect, nor to violate by cruelty." ~ James Herriot, English Veterinarian and Author

"As custodians of the planet it is our responsibility to deal with all species with kindness, love, and compassion. That these animals suffer through human cruelty is beyond understanding. Please help to stop this madness." ~ Richard Gere, American Actor

"All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it." ~ Samuel Butler, British Author, Painter, Photographer, and Art Critic

"Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote." ~ Paul Harvey, American Radio Commentator

"Cruelty to dumb animals is one of the distinguishing vices of low and base minds. Wherever it is found, it is a certain mark of ignorance and meanness; a mark which all the external advantages of wealth, splendour, and nobility, cannot obliterate. It is consistent neither with learning nor true civility." ~ William Jones, English Philologist and Jurist

"We are fellow passengers on the same planet, and we are all equally responsible for the happiness and the well-being of the world in which we happen to live." ~ Hendrick Van Loon

"...this rage - I have never forgotten it - contained every anger, every revolt I had ever felt in my life - the way I felt when I saw the black dog hunted, the way I felt when I watched old Uncle Henry taken away to the almshouse, the way I felt whenever I had seen people or animals hurt for the pleasure or profit of others." ~ Ellen Glasgow, American Author

"When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble." ~ Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama), Indian (India) founder of Buddhism religion and philosophy

"The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them. That's the essence of inhumanity." ~ George Bernard Shaw, Irish Playright and Critic

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." ~ Martin Luther King, Jr., Civil Rights Leader

"Anyone who has accustomed himself to regard the life of any living creature as worthless is in danger of arriving also at the idea of worthless human lives." ~ Albert Schweitzer, Alsatian Theologian, Musician, and Medical Missionary

"Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages." ~ Thomas Edison, American Scientist and Inventor

"To inflict cruelties on defenceless creatures, or condone such acts, is to abuse one of the cardinal tenets of a civilised society - reverence for life." - Dr. Jon Evans, England

"Human liberation will begin when we understand that our evolution and fulfilment are contingent on the recognition of animal rights and on a compassionate and responsible stewardship of nature." ~ Dr. Michael W. Fox, Animal Activist

"If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans." ~ James Herriot, English Veterinarian and Author

"The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life." ~ Albert Einstein, American Theoretical Physicist

"Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity; and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom." ~ George Bernard Shaw, Irish Playwright and Critic

"Never doubt that a small group of concerned citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." ~ Margaret Mead, American Anthropologist

"I will not kill or hurt any living creature needlessly, nor destroy any beautiful thing, but will strive to save and comfort all gentle life, and guard and perfect all natural beauty upon the earth." ~ John Ruskin, English Author and Critic

"Our treatment of animals is important to our own internal state. If we are to expand our horizons, to grow to understand what the relatedness of each and every thing means, then our love and appreciation of all life is essential. Our respect and reverence for all living things will be reflected in our own living." ~ Bill Schul, Author of The Psychic Power of Animals

"Many people have learned through relating to animals what it is to care for and accept responsibility for another being." ~ Richard H. Pitcairn, American Veterinarian, Pet Nutritionist and Author

"It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life. Towards this end, experiments on living animals in classrooms should be stopped. To encourage cruelty in the name of science can only destroy the finer emotions of affection and sympathy, and breed an unfeeling callousness in the young towards suffering in all living creatures." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt, former First Lady of the United States of America

"Love is what extended her life. She had to give it as much as receive it to be happy. Dogs [indeed, all animals] extend our lives, if the truth be known." ~ Diane Bethel, Web Developer of WagSouth productions speaking of Charmin, her American Eskimo who lived 15 years

"It is not just that animals make the world more scenic or picturesque. The lives of animals are woven into our very being - closer than our own breathing - and our souls will suffer when they are gone." ~ Gary Kowalski, Author of The Souls of Animals

"They say he's a sociopath because they don't know what else to call him. He has some of the characteristics of what they call a sociopath. He has no remorse or guilt at all. And he had the first and worst sign - sadism to animals as a child." ~ Thomas Harris, Author of Red Dragon (other related books by Harris are The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal)

"I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it." ~ Author Unknown

"If a man aspires toward a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals." ~ Count Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist and Philosopher

"Our treatment of animals will someday be considered barbarous. There cannot be perfect civilization until man realizes that the rights of every living creature are as sacred as his own." ~ Dr. David Starr Jordan, American Biologist and Educator

"We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature." ~ Rachel Carson, American Author and Marine Biologist

"Every year tens of thousands of animals suffer and die in laboratory tests of cosmetics and household products...despite the fact that the test results do not help prevent or treat accidental or purposeful misuse of the products. Please join me in using your voice for those whose cries are forever sealed behind the laboratory doors." ~ Woody Harrelson, Actor

"The brute animals have all the same sensations of pain as human beings, and consequently endure as much pain when their body is hurt; but in their case the cruelty of torment is greater, because they have no mind to bear them up against their sufferings, and no hope to look forward to when enduring the last extreme pain..." ~ Thomas Chalmers, Scottish Religious Leader

"True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation." ~ Joseph Addison, English Poet

"Life is life's greatest gift. Guard the life of another creature as you would your own because it is your own. On life's scale of values, the smallest is no less precious to the creature who owns it than the largest..." ~ Lloyd Biggle Jr. (1923-)

"A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as well as that of his fellowman, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help." ~ Dr. Albert Schweitzer, Alsatian Theologian, Musician, and Medical Missionary

"My doctrine is this: that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and we do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt." ~ Anna Sewell, English Novelist

"Providing food and shelter is not proving love for your pet. Those too, but proper care and protection from harm make the truest sense of responsible pet ownership." ~ John D. Carraway, DVM, enscribed hanging office plaque of his professional motto, FancyBoy and JoJo's vet

"First they went after the Communists, and I did not stand up, because I was not a Communist. Then they went after the homosexuals and infirm, and I did not stand up, because I was neither. Then they went after the Jews, and I did not stand up, because I was not a Jew. Then they went after the Catholics, and I did not stand up, because I was Protestant. Finally, they went after me, and there was no one left to stand up for me." ~ Martin Neimoller, German Pastor who spent 8½ years in a Nazi concentration camp

"He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals." ~ Immanuel Kant, German Philosopher

"Animals are such agreeable friends, they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms." ~ George Eliot, Female English Novelist (Mary Ann Evans)

"We cannot glimpse the essential life of a caged animal, only the shadow of its former beauty." ~ Julia Allen Field (1937- )

"The awful wrongs and sufferings forced upon the innocent, helpless, faithful animal race, form the blackest chapter in the whole world's history." ~ Edward Freeman, English Freelance Historian and Journalist

"The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality." ~ Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

"A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives." ~ Albert Schweitzer, Alsatian Theologian, Musician, and Medical Missionary

"Cherish the wonderful ways our animals are models of living life to the fullest, loving unconditionally, embracing the passion within, and being completely in the present moment." ~ Susan White

"I have always felt that the way we treat animals is a pretty good indicator of the compassion we are capable of for the human race." ~ Ali McGraw, American Actress

"The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men." ~ Leonardo Da Vinci, Italian Painter, Sculptor, Architect, Musician, Engineer, and Scientist

"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." ~ Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Statesman and Philosopher

"Of all the creatures, man is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he's the one that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain. The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot." ~ Mark Twain, American Novelist

"You have to love animals for what they are or leave them alone. The best thing you can do if you love them is leave them alone and see that other people do too." ~ Pat Derby (1942- )

"What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, men would die from great loneliness of spirit. For whatever happens to the beasts, soon happens to man. All things are connected." ~ Chief Seattle American Indian Duwamish Tribe

"True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it." ~ Milan Kundera, Czech Novelist

"If only we can overcome cruelty, to human and animal, with love and compassion we shall stand at the threshold of a new era in human moral and spiritual evolution - and realize, at last, our most unique quality: humanity." - Jane Goodall, Author of Reason for Hope

"Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is...whether its victim is human or animal...we cannot expect things to be much better in this world...We cannot have peace among men whose hearts delight in killing any living creature. By every act that glorifies or even tolerates such moronic delight in killing we set back the progress of humanity." ~ Rachel Carson, American Biologist and Novelist

"We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does not allow us to impose such sufferings on them. It is our duty to make the whole world recognize it. Until we extend our circle of compassion to all living things, humanity will not find peace." ~ Albert Schweitzer, Alsatian Theologian, Musician, and Medical Missionary

"The man who kills the animals today is the man who kills the people who get in his way tomorrow." ~ Dr. Diane Fossey, Woman in the Mists (Dr. Fossey was killed by someone who killed animals yesterday.)

"To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards out of men." ~ Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States

"The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of humanity." ~ George Bernard Shaw, Irish Playwright and Critic

"Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people. Wherever one notices them, they constitute a sign of ignorance and brutality which cannot be painted over even by all the evidence of wealth and luxury." ~ Alexander Von Humbolt, German Naturalist

"The quiet conscience is the invention of the devil. No one of us may permit any preventable pain to be inflicted even though the responsibility for that pain is not ours. No one may shut his eyes and think that the pain which is therefore not visible, is nonexistent." ~ Albert Schweitzer, Alsatian Theologian, Musician, and Medical Missionary

"You cannot do a kindness too soon, because you never know how soon it will be too late." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Essayist and Philosopher

"It is as if life had said, 'I am going to send you into a world of cruelty. I shall make you sensitive to pain, fear, heat, cold, hunger and starvation. In this world of cruelty, I shall make you defenseless. In addition, I shall strike you dumb.' This is the kind of world that animals are born into." ~ Grace Johnson, Animal Activist

"All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action." ~ James Russell Lowell, American Poet and Essayist

"Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. The roots of cruelty, therefore, are not so much strong as widespread. But the time will come when inhumanity protected by custom and thoughtlessness will succumb before humanity championed by thought. Let us work that this time may come." ~ Albert Schweitzer, Alsatian Theologian, Musician, and Medical Missionary

"To close your eyes will not ease another's pain." ~ Chinese Proverb

"The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation, and misery on this earth." ~ George Eliot, Female English Novelist (Mary Ann Evans)

"These birds and animals and fish cannot speak, but they can suffer, and our God who created them, knows their sufferings, and will hold him who causes them to suffer unnecessarily to answer for it. It is a sin against their Creator." ~ George Q. Cannon, Animal Activist

"Cruelty to dumb animals is one of the distinguishing vices of the lowest and basest of the people - wherever it is found, it is a certain mark of ignorance and meanness." ~ Jones of Nayland

"It is totally unconscionable to subject defenseless animals to mutilation and death, just so a company can be the first to market a new shade of nail polish or a new, improved laundry detergent...It's cruel, it's brutal, it's inhumane, and most people don't want it." ~ Abigail 'Dear Abby' Van Buren Testifying before the House Judiciary Committee in support of the Consumer Products Safe Testing Act, March 1988

"The Animals of the planet are in desperate peril and they are fully aware of this. No less than human beings are doing in all parts of the world, they are seeking sanctuary." ~ Alice Walker, "Selected Writings," Living by the Word

"Love of animals is a universal impulse, a common ground on which all of us may meet. By loving and understanding animals, perhaps we humans shall come to understand each other." ~ Louis J. Camuti, D.V.M., First American vet to devote his practice exclusively to cats

"I abhor vivisection. It should at least be curbed. Better, it should be abolished. I know of no achievement through vivisection, no scientific discovery, that could not have been obtained without such barbarism and cruelty. The whole thing is evil." ~ Dr. Charles Mayo, Founder of the Mayo Clinic

"Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented." ~ Elie Wiesel, Romanian-American Writer

"If a good relation with God makes people good and benevolent in their relation with animals, for its part, benevolence toward animals could awaken in man's heart feelings of admiration and praise for the grandiose work of the Creator of the Universe." ~ Marie Hendrickx, Theologian of the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith

"Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way." ~ John Muir, Environmentalist

"While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?" ~ George Bernard Shaw, Irish Playwright and Critic

"We need another and a wiser and perhaps more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature, and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them [other animals] for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the sense we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren; they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of earth." ~ Henry Beston, The Outermost House

"The more that people live with animals, the more they know how precious they are and what they do to enhance our lives." ~ Doris Day, Actress, Animal Activist
"All that breathes is precious. Who is to say that the suffering of an animal is less worthy of solace than the pain of man? The spark of life is no dimmer simply because it is encased in fur or leather." ~ Anonymous

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