Seal hunt letter from Parksville/Qualicum News BC!!!!!

[Omaha Steve]

Parksville/Qualicum, BC

Baby Seal Killing is a Disgrace

July 7, 2006

On Sunday July 2, Anthony Marr, a passionate protector and lover of animals and activist passed through Qualicum Beach while travelling from Victoria to Campbell River.

This is the distance representing the length of 260,000 dead seals lined up nose to tail, of the 325,000 seals slaughtered in Canada every year.

Although most people are disgusted with the way these baby animals are bludgeoned to death annually, there are still some people who equate the seals with the demise of cod stocks or fish in general.

Reading the website of Anthony Marr I discovered some interesting facts. Go to www.HOPE-CARE.org if you want further information.

My answer to the people that still think that seals should be killed to preserve the fish stock is that there is killing and then there is slaughtering inhumanely and skinning baby seals while still alive. Clubbing the baby seals in front of their mothers is barbaric.

If you read the website, you will see that the seals did not kill the cod industry but man did. As you read on you will also see that killing the seals is counter productive to fish numbers.

The whole world is watching Canada and we do not project a good picture with this. To quote Mahatma Gandhi: "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." In that regard Canada is failing miserably.

It's time to stop this practice and time to be a more civilized and more compassionate country.

R. Kraft
Qualicum Beach