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Can Taylor Swift help Canada's seal meat industry, senate committee asks
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here in the states, 'clubbing baby seals' is a basic euphemism for 'evil'
its beyond strange to hear there is not only a market for seal meat, but that it is flat out an accepted industry. i have no horse in this race though, id eat it.. or the horse
I remember habing a T-shirt Hell shirt that showed two baby seals in swanky attire dancing under a disco ball, with the words "Stop Clubbing Baby Seals" in glittery rhinestones.
Haha I just checked and not only does that site still exist it looks exactly the same as I remember from like 20 years ago
I've had horse a couple of times. It's pretty good.
What would you compare it to?
That's a good question. It's kind of it's own thing, kind of gamey though. It's not got much fat in it. This being said, horse isn't produced for consumption in my country and as such the meat is procured from horses that have lived life as pets pretty much exclusively.
There is a lot of misinformation on both sides about the commercial seal hunt in Canada. Which makes it difficult to get the truth.
But to call people who are engaging in the hunt using traditional or modern methods as evil is some fucking bullshit. Most times it's a group who don't understand the nuances, using a standard that doesn't apply.
Now, saying that there aren't problems with the hunt would be rather disingenuous, and most of the anti-hunting groups deliberately misrepresent the facts because seals are cute. At the same time, the industry associations and hunters themselves are biased.
There is a way to ethically hunt seals, and having a market to sell the meat and fur is imperative for that. I'm not passing judgment on the hunters if the animals don't suffer, and they stick to the quotas and guidelines set forth by the DFO.
It also looks horrific because ice is white and stains with blood easily, so as opposed to shooting a deer in grass, killing a seal looks incredibly gory.
Aren't seals endangered? Forgive me if I am wrong but there is no ethical way to hunt an endangered population. Unless they are targeting populous seal populations, which of those there are not many.
Wikipedia has them listed as Least Concerned. So, not in a way that would have conservatory issues associated due to population.
Like I said there is a lot of disinformation surrounding the topic.