Friday February 15, 2008, 1:32 am
Fur is not an option in the 21 st century, we have thousands of options to wear. There is no need for more massacres.Thank you Arlette for bringing the subject.

Friday February 15, 2008, 2:35 am
Noted! Greed, poor helpless baby seals. A government that wont stop it. Disgusting. Thanks Budy.

Friday February 15, 2008, 3:36 am
THANK YOU, IT'S SO HORRIBLE, SUCH AN INJUST, EVILNESS, PLEASE SIGN IN THE GROUP'ANIMCORD' THE PETITIONS FOR THE BABY SEALS, AGAINST THESE KIND OF MASSACRES, THANK YOU

Friday February 15, 2008, 3:39 am
Wow, they are horrible. These people are horrible. Thank you for sharing this story, Arlette. Noted.

Friday February 15, 2008, 4:01 am
This is makes me so sad and angry. The people that do this to a beautiful Seal are just monsters. How can they look at those precious faces and do something so mean? I would like to ask them that question? Where are their hearts? Veronica is right. PLEASE make a difference and join our group. Noted.:((((

Friday February 15, 2008, 4:58 am
Wow! what a horror story! Imagine just clubbing the poor seals! What are they? Inanimate things or what? Don't these poor creatures feel the pain? The sealers should understand that clubbing the seals just to make a quick buck is not ethical. In fact they should understand how it would feel if somebody had done the same thing to them. Thanks Arlette for sharing this information with us. I really feel for the poor seals! Noted!

Friday February 15, 2008, 5:09 am
Perhaps, clubbing them is a better option. This is so sad and barbaric. There can't be one ounce of humanity in these people. What goes around, WILL come around. And these certainly deserve what may be coming to them.

Friday February 15, 2008, 5:24 am
hi well theres only one way for it then its time for us to take to baseball bats and start clubing these monstescharles and thanks arlette. notede

Friday February 15, 2008, 5:24 am
Noted with anger. Thanks Arlette.

Friday February 15, 2008, 5:30 am
hi thanks arlette..yer its time time for us to pick up baseball bats and start clubing those monsters who are clubing those poor seals

Friday February 15, 2008, 5:36 am
It's the worst side of humanity. Pure greed. They are monsters to attack something so defenseless and innocent.

Friday February 15, 2008, 5:39 am
Yes, Charles...and it wouldn't be any less humane!

Friday February 15, 2008, 6:08 am
I do not understand how anyone could look into those sweet innocent eyes and use a club to destroy that beautiful helpless seal. These monsters then go home to their families and touch their children with those blood-stained hands. How do they sleep at night!!! How do they face themselves the morning after they have behaved so cold-bloodedly?
Noted with a heavy heart for the suffering, torture and murder of these precious, innocent, helpless seals.

Friday February 15, 2008, 6:24 am
This infuriates me and I've had it. These cruel monsters look into those beautiful seal faces and feel nothing but hatred and blood-thirsty. Its time this senseless slaughter ends!

Noted with sorrow in my heart on behalf of these beautiful, precious creatures.

Friday February 15, 2008, 6:44 am
Over twenty years of protest and look where we are ...

Friday February 15, 2008, 6:45 am
This breaks my heart.
noted
Thnx Arlette!

Friday February 15, 2008, 7:42 am
I thought this was banned, the IFAW were heavily involved. Global warming could have just one good use, if it melted the ice and these lovely people had a cold swim..

Friday February 15, 2008, 8:14 am
All this cruelty because of their fur.It just shows there are a lot of beasts walking on 2 legs in this world.
Thank you,Arlette

Friday February 15, 2008, 8:58 am
Enoughs enough. We need to do more than write our MP's and send letters to the editor. It's time we took a strong stand against this horror. We all need to get out in the streets...show the government we are embarrased and demand this to stop.

Friday February 15, 2008, 11:36 am
These helpless beautiful seals deserve to live a full life. Just makes me cry. I truly hope this horrific act will subside very soon. What's wrong with some people. Just doesn't seem normal.

Friday February 15, 2008, 11:44 am
Clubbing is so cruel! Imagine how the innocent seals feel. This hurts me so much that there are still morons who take their frustrations out on these beautiful animals of God. Sadly noted.

Friday February 15, 2008, 12:23 pm
As horrible as this sounds, I wonder how these hunters would feel if we threw their offspring out onto the ice and took a club to them? Or better yet, we take a club to the actual hunters. Makes me ashamed to admit I was born in Canada. There is NO reason to wear fur anymore, so this is just senseless killing. I hope karma catches up with each and every one of these brutal killers.

Friday February 15, 2008, 12:41 pm
When is this Hell going to Stop!!? "the gov.of canada is Evil and so are the people Murdering theses Beauitful seals!!!!

Friday February 15, 2008, 12:42 pm
I'm with Maggi. The hunters should be clubbed to death and see how they like it! I'm so disgusted with the human race. No respect of the wondrous creatures who live here, the environment, the oceans, forests and skies.

Friday February 15, 2008, 1:28 pm
None of these "options" are good ones. The killing is senseless; there is no need for humans to wear fur. People involved with these murders are barbarians. It's getting increasingly difficult for me to read these stories and hear about this 'news' and not turn into a raving luantic. Give *me* one of those clubs and let *me* do my own 'hunt' and I guarantee you I would come back with the remains of something but it would NOT be a seal...

Friday February 15, 2008, 1:38 pm
I dont understand why people can be so inhumane to such precious and new life too - theres no need for it and it is absolutely horrible, and all these stories do get more difficult to read, and quite upsetting to hear about - I sincerely hope that we can all make enough of an impact to stop these barbaric happenings

Friday February 15, 2008, 2:15 pm
Too bad the human-animals exist! All they do is torture and murder the defensless. How many did you torture/mass murder today by Eating/Wearing them! Schools should be teaching Veganism -- not brainwashing SATANism. If you stopped doing Evil than maybe your small pathetic brain would save these wonderful God's Babies...

Friday February 15, 2008, 2:27 pm
Everyone is exactly right. How these ruthless murderers can look into the seals HUGE, BLACK, EYES and then CLUB THEM TO DEATH IS BEYOND ME !!!

Every time I click for the Canadian Baby Seals it KILLS ME. I mean, the first picture is of a happy face seal but after I click it takes to the saddest, baby, seal I've ever seen. I can't stand it, I just can NOT stand it !!!!! PLEASE DEAR GOD DELIVER PEACE TO OUR SWEET, INNOCENT, SEALS....PLEASE STOP THE CLUBBING !!!!!!!!!

Friday February 15, 2008, 2:27 pm
We are getting closer to victory for the seals-- the fact that it is in the forefront of the news and is getting much more media is a victory -- The reduced demand for this blood fur is also a victory. We may not be done with the fight but face it we have come a long way for these poor creatures! Let's keep the hope alive that this archaic practice will soon be just a story of history.

Friday February 15, 2008, 2:39 pm
noted with great sadness and anger.

Friday February 15, 2008, 3:24 pm
Ther is a force out side of our mentality.It is called nature.We do not understand it but if we humans keep acting towards the other beings,who we are supposed to live alongside of,then we will find that nature will hit us where it hurts us most!It may not be in my lifetime but it will happen..UK

Friday February 15, 2008, 3:44 pm
It's amazing these hunters haven't got the message from the rest of the world that this is unacceptable. What do they tell their kids they do for a living? I can't believe their families would support them. Why didn't our petitions work? What's the next step?

Friday February 15, 2008, 3:47 pm
It is all about money!! Always the fucking money. I am with you charles, I come with you, but I would like to cut them up, cut of their penises and leave them on the cold ice to die!!!!!!!! The Canadians should be ashamed to still do this. This is as bad as the whaling/dolphins in Japan. Yuk! It must be stopped! Thanks Arlette

Friday February 15, 2008, 4:51 pm
Many people nowadays won't even wear fur so the poor seal is being clubbed to death for NOTHING!!! I wonder how those jerks would like it if someone clubbed someone they love to death in front of their face??? I can't even imagine the horror and pain the mother and babies endure!

Friday February 15, 2008, 5:00 pm
I blame the people that buy the damn fur coats!!!
If no one bought them, Who would need to kill
WAKE UP !!!!

Friday February 15, 2008, 5:02 pm
DO NOT , DO NOT BUY FUR ANYTHING!
WHAT ARE THEY DOING W/ THE FUR?

Friday February 15, 2008, 5:18 pm
Of all of the tradgedys I learned about on care2, this is one that rips the very soul out of people.(((MURDER))) This is one of the most barbic, SLAUGHTER< MURDER OF LIFE.....AND IF YOU CARE!!!!, really CARE. PLEASE please educate yourself and pass it on....THIS MUST STOP!!! BOYCOTT CANADIAN SEAFOOD....EXPOSE THE FUR INDUSTRY!!!!

Friday February 15, 2008, 5:46 pm
to me they are all murders:get me over there and they would not like seeing me:
it makes me so si ck seeing this.

Friday February 15, 2008, 7:22 pm
I have been part of the protest group..... I have to say that I was worried if I had got hold of one of those clubs it would have changed the whole scene somewhat. I had never seen evil face to face before.

Friday February 15, 2008, 8:36 pm
That picture makes my blood boil. Fur is not necessary and it only hurts animals. Well stated, F Mcculloch.

Friday February 15, 2008, 9:21 pm
“It is hard to fathom that anyone is still wearing fur. It is so plain to see that killing animals for their fur is completely barbaric. The only purpose is vanity.”
~Joaquin Phoenix

"There are times, and these not infrequent, when tears come to my eyes when I see, or read, or hear of the wretched plight of animals in the hands of humans. Their pain, their suffering, their loneliness, their innocence, their death. Anger. Rage. Pity. Sorrow. Disgust. The whole creation groans under the weight of the evil we humans visit upon these mute, powerless creatures. It is our hearts, not just our heads, that call for an end to it all, that demand of us that we overcome, for them, the habits and forces behind their systematic oppression. The fate of animals is in our hands. God grant we are equal to the task."
Tom Regan, 1938- In Defense of Animals

Saturday February 16, 2008, 12:37 am
Hi, Oil M, you are exactly the type that would say something like that: your age, you need to mature a little, You sound exactly like my 30 year old son. No feelings, no sense, selfish to a T. I bet you are having trouble holding down a love relationship with a woman! But I am sure you are getting enough one night stands. Because of types like you this world is in such a mess. People that don't care for anything else, but themselves, you could not give a thought for a suffering animal, I am sure you are a macho meat eater as well, lots of meat, ham and bacon, Not a worry in the world, just make no 1 happy. Yuk, go to h.... or read Deepak Chopra' books, you really need them, if you want to grow up into a feeling , sensious being... good luck.

Saturday February 16, 2008, 1:15 am
:o( so sad

Saturday February 16, 2008, 3:38 am
AGREE WITH RUUD HULSPAS, AM DUTCH TOO, AT IT SINCE 1968, I WAS 15 THEN, THEY NAMED US DREAMERS, I GUESS THEY WERE RIGHT, NOT GETTING ANYWHERE. BUT KEEP ON GOING TILL I DROP.
BASTARDS AND BASTARD GOVERNMENTS, WE ARE THE CONVEYORBELT PRODUCTS TO FEED THEIR SICK GREEDY MINDS. WISH THEM STRAIGHT INTO LIMBO

Saturday February 16, 2008, 4:19 am
Are the sealers killing baby seals?

The Canadian government keeps insisting that only adult harp seals are killed. Yet, the following questions marked "#8 and #9" are taken verbatim from the DFO website:

8. How old must harp and hooded seals be before hunters can take them?
Harp seals can be legally hunted once they have moulted their white coat, which occurs at about 12-14 days of age. However, they are not usually hunted until they reach the "beater" stage of development at around 25 days old.

9. Why do hunters target young animals?
Young harp seals between approximately 3-4 weeks and one year of age are called beaters - so named because they tend to slap the water when they swim. Beater seals provide the most valuable pelts and market conditions are stronger for this type of pelt.

Twelve to fourteen days is not the definition of an adult seal. Nor is 25 days (which is three-four weeks). The seals from birth to four weeks old are helpless and cannot escape or defend themselves from their killers. These are seal pups. Seal pups are baby seals.

So when seal defenders state that the sealers are killing baby seals, what they mean is that sealers are killing baby seals

When the Canadian government states that the sealers kill only adult seals, they are redefining the meaning of baby seals. Baby seals cease to be baby seals and become adult seals at 12 days old according to the government definition. So when government and industry spokespeople say that the sealers are killing adult seals what they really mean is that sealers are killing baby seals

Saturday February 16, 2008, 4:21 am
If there was any doubt about !

Saturday February 16, 2008, 6:49 am
It sickens me that anyone would treat another living thing in such a horrifying, brutal manner.They can't call themselves human beings.Oh and by the way Oil M. why are you even on Care2? It's clearly obvious that you don't "care" about anything.

Saturday February 16, 2008, 7:06 am
Oil M you are not only ignorant, you are equally arrogant to think that because man is the top of the food chain that he needs to destroy other creatures for his own selfish purposes. Way back in the day before fabrics and artifical furs could be created man needed to hunt for food and fur to eat and stay warm. Not so in today's industialized society. How anybody can look into the eyes of a beautiful baby seal and then wield a spike through it's skull and still sleep at night and feel good about themselves is beyond my comprehension. It turns my stomach and boils my blood. It is ignorant people like you who propigate this inhumane treatment of the other inhabitants of this Earth. Leave this website and do not show your face here. This place is for those who care about other creatures NOT those who defend those who killl the innocent and defenseless.

Saturday February 16, 2008, 7:20 am
It is disgusting and sad what they do with these baby seals. I once saw a poster of an adult seal with a club in its flippers and a clubbed human baby beneath it ,dead. Such a powerful poster and the message it was conveying. I can't for the life of me see how one can hurt such beautiful creatures or any creature and live with him or herself.

Sadly noted.

Saturday February 16, 2008, 9:42 am
It's the worst side of humanity. Pure greed

Saturday February 16, 2008, 4:41 pm
Canada has one of the worst reputations in the world for treatment of animals, mainly because of the seal hunt. Our pathetic government cares nothing about the wildlife. Their excuse in the past has been the Native way of life that would be destroyed, when in reality it is the furriers on Spadina that profit. The only way to stop the hunt is to convince all these senseless women to quit buying fur, which makes for a really hard fight (which indeed has been going on for over 20 yrs). Arrogance, vanity and a conviction that only they hold any importance in this world is tough to overcome. Maybe all that botox will shorten their life span. We can only hope. And as for you Oil, I feel sorry for you. Your attitude is just plain sad.

Saturday February 16, 2008, 4:58 pm
Greed, selfishness and heartlessness. Boycott Canada. Don't travel there, don't buy their products.
I still for the life of me cannot even conceive what sort of being (because they are barely human) can actually take a club and beat a poor defenseless creature to death . . . it's beyond me, so barbaric and senseless. It needs to stop.

Saturday February 16, 2008, 4:59 pm
Forgot to thank you for sharing & posting this.

Saturday February 16, 2008, 5:04 pm
They also use fur seals for skiing, langlauf, or what ever it is called, they put seal fur strip on the underside of the skies, so they can get a better grip walking uphill.
The other thing that Canada is famous for is the way they treat pigs, one of the biggest exports. And huge cruelty going on there too. Or killing bears for the English queen's guard. Yes they still use real bears, that are cruelly trapped in Canada for the hats.

Saturday February 16, 2008, 5:05 pm
It's so sad this hasn't ended yet.
But there is hope, for the EU is about to bann seal products from Canada, and this will be a major crash in the proffits...
Lets hope and keep on fighting

Saturday February 16, 2008, 7:12 pm
No matter how it done, it is just outrageous, do they really think these baby seals don't feel pain?

Saturday February 16, 2008, 11:30 pm
This is barbaric, the worst of us. Noted, thanks Arlette.

Sunday February 17, 2008, 1:31 am
thanx arlette for posting & nadia & laura for mssg'n ... this is truly bad & sad & there is another factor that makes it BARBARIC EVIL & EXTREMELY SADISTIC& PERVERSE : In a FEW short MOS. (about 6 give or take) these seals will molt like a snake or a butterfly shedding its chrysalis/cocoon . about 30 years ago greenpeace pioneers (robert hunter {r.i.p}& paul watson {now w/ seashepherd})had proven that with NO HARM to the seals ,during the molting season , that the fur could be collected easier and w/ less trauma & effort ( for seals & humans ) than collecting wool from sheep..& could still be used for the same things and retain the same qualities as fur acquired by murdering & skinning the babies..

Sunday February 17, 2008, 12:19 pm
this is very sad, we need to stop these horrable things from happening. its all about GREED.

Sunday February 17, 2008, 4:10 pm
This is all about greed. The people who where fur should see a film on what these animals go through before they buy it. Maybe they'll think twice. Sorry, it really creeps me out. I hate seeing them get hurt.

Sunday February 17, 2008, 8:06 pm
SOOOO BARBARIC!!!!!....
HOW COULD ANY HUMAN WITH ANY FEELING DO SUCH A THING???...SHAME ON THEM!!!!...AND AGAIN--SHAMEFUL TO THEM TO DO THIS HORRID ACT OF TORTURE!!!!...CARE2 MEMBERS HAVE A MAGICAL WEEK, WITH MUCH PEACE OF MIND AND BLESSINGS!!!...THANKS ARLETTE FOR POSTING THIS ARTICLE IN THE NEWS!!!...CAROL..

Tuesday June 30, 2009, 9:47 am
You people are all uneducated about the subject, I live in Newfoundland Labrador and the seal hunt is held anually, the ban on seal products in Europe is having a horrible affect on the fisherman and women who need the seals for economic stability. Oh and it's illegal to kill baby seals (The ones with the white coats as in the picture above.) The reality of this is that it's not inhumane, the club almost always kills them instantly. Have you people ever seen the way they kill cows, they line them up and slit their throats letting them bleed out, thats way more barbaric.

Tuesday June 30, 2009, 5:03 pm
I agree with Daulton B. Killing baby seals has been illegal since 1986. So before you so called "activists" go on a rampage about the seal industry make sure you get your facts straight. Also the club has been rated the most human way to kill an animal. As Daulton B. said about the cows and todays pigs are getting cutt by the throat and are left to bleed out too. And I can't stress how much you guys need to get your facts straight before you start talking. Also there are 8 million seals worldwide and the population is increasing. So . . . there you have it.