Who thinks 'culling' of seals is totally wrong?

Question

i think people who do this should be shot. its cruel and barbaric. how would they like to be whacked over the head with a spiked club.

Answer 1

If it is for the personal needs - like the Inuits -, I would call it hunt and not culling. And the hunt is something between you and ONE animal, and you wouldn't kill a mother or a baby or more then you need in short term because you think about tomorrow.

If it is for the need of some people who like to show off in seal coats or boots it is completely useless. The culler claim that they make their living with that, but only because there is still a market. You should penalize the buyers of these items, then the 'hunters' will be starving.

Answer 2

I ask the same thing while your eating a steak.  Watch the youtube movie on turkey packing plants.  Think what you may, but in the end its all MEAT.

Answer 3

No, it is commercial harvesting of a useful and renewable resource.  The cull is well managed and the seal population is stable.

Answer 4

If the seal population is dependent on a fish stock that is collapsing, as in the case of the North Atlantic cod, removing one seal means another has a chance to live instead of starving.

Part of our problem on the Labrador is that people have been arguing for a sustainable harvest. If the numbers of seals is down, they insist that we must have been harvesting too many.

But that reasoning overlooks the availability of cod to feed them.

When the prey of a predator, like a seal, is in decline, there is no level of harvest that is sustainable. Leaving more seals eating fish actually reduces seal survival. Reducing the number of seals actually increases seal survival as long as seals are starving.

When we see polar bears starving, a part of the problem arises from wide open waters betwen land and ice, but a far greater problem for them is that seals have starved, that fish are not plentiful.

Should we ban harvesting polar bears? Would it improve the supply of seals or fish?

So, while harvesting seals where polar bears are and are starving might seem a bad idea, for the benefit of the bears, yet where the seals are starving from want of Northern Cod, I have to say this is not totally wrong. (Labrador has no bear population, so seals propagate to the point of starvation in absence of their main predator.)

Answer 5

Its cruel , but imo they need to eat  & make a living so it really does not bother me at all.

Answer 6

no more wrong than culling people

we are all earthlings

and in Gaia`s eyes have the same rights

It is easy to say that the seals are eating the fish

but they have always eaten fish and their numbers were governed by natural predators.

But we also hunt them

Humans breed with out restraint,

are we gonna end up killing everything that eats the same things we do,

we should be looking more towards breeding fish on a large scale .instead of raping and pillaging the oceans

And, if in the future,  we have killed and eaten everything

And continued to contaminate soils and waters and destroy arable lands, so that even the growing of crops becomes difficult

And continued to increase our numbers so that there are more people than cabbages

the only thing left to eat will be us

(that was a joke ,I think)

Answer 7

I think that is really wrong.  I have seen pictures in the newspaper of a man hitting a seal over the head with a hammer.  It was horrid.  I have read some of the other comments.  I ate steak and other meats.  I don't think of them as being killed but they are.

Hope this helps!

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Answer 8

this is a way of life for people on the east coast whether Native or other,I sometimes wonder if some of the 'brutal' beatings are not staged for the bleeding hearts.Any man providing meat for his family is not going to turn it into 'hamburger'on the ice mixed in with bone and guts material and also a seal hide is not very valuable pounded and beaten with hammer holes or spike holes it.The meat is also used by the Native peoples.Hey were do you think veal and spring lamb come from,and yes fish die of oxygen starvation while they wait to be filleted alive and sharks drown in the huge drift nets they get caught in left buy commercial trawlers we are a barbaric race but we need to survive

Answer 9

We're facing an issue like this in Oregon.  Though not as direct perhaps as the traditional seal clubbing we've grown up with since the 1970's.

You see, Sea Lions are "competing" with fisherman for fish.  So someone at Fish and Wildlife decided the best way to deal with this situation is to "cull" the Sea Lions - they call it "wildlife management."

Many folks have pointed out that if fish runs were healthier there wouldn't be a need to take this action to "save the fishing industry."  Stuff like restoring and protecting habitats, reducing toxic discharge, working with other nations to protect the world's oceans, our climate... h**l taking better care of our inter-related environment could probably go a long way to making sure our fish populations remain healthy and abundant.

But that's all abstract - not as direct as killing the Sea Lions for competing with humans for food.

So yeah, I think "culling" is morally wrong because it is a short-sighted solution that allows for ignorant action that is destructive to God's creation.

Thanks!

Answer 10

Everyone is getting off point. Its not about why they are being killed but how they are being killed. These are baby animals that are being walked up to and beaten to death. They are not killed for food but for there coats. The meat of the animal is left on the ice to be found later by its mother. It truley is a senseless slaughter.

Answer 11

Culling is what they are doing to protect the salmon supplies.  The clubbing is what some people are doing for a so called hobby!  Both are wrong!  The people that doe this as hobby should be charged with a crime just like people who have dog fights.  Why kill seals so that the humans have fish to eat?  There are plenty of other things for humans to eat.  Veggies, fruit, etc.  Man needs to stop s******g up the natural process.

Answer 12

It is Absolutely WRONG. It is not needed to eat for survival, its to make money and it should be STOPPED and made illegal, in the same respect they are doing with the whaling. How can this be stopped??Is there a petition or something?? I watched on the news lastnight, it made me cry. FFS, Humans are the worst animals in the world, sometimes,  All we do is take take take. Leave the seals ALONE!!!!

Answer 13

Fortunately no one cares what your opinion is on the subject, the seals are not an endangered species and the hides of these seals are of commercial value to the folks harvesting them. Seal clubbing is much less cruel than fishing where the animal is pulled out of the water and dies slowly of suffocation and yet virtually no one complains about fishing.

Yes we're all aware how animals are slaughtered, it's never a pretty sight but it serves to remind you that virtually everything we eat requires the death of something.