(Yawn)...
Paul McCartney and his wife make a stink about Canadian seal hunt
Comment: Besides the obvious dishonesty of posing with cute/cuddly critters who are not even legal prey in Canada, the Premier of Newfoundland was correct - to be consistant, you'd have to outlaw all animal slaughter to be consistant. If anything, I'd go so far as to say these wild seals have much better lives (well, at least when they're not being eaten alive by killer whales) than animals raised on modern factory farms.
In the end though, windbags like McCartney, Pamela Anderson and the rest of the "bored and privileged" PETA goons would be a lot more credible in my eyes if they started every one one of their "humane treatment" campaigns with a stop at the local "Planned Parenthood" clinic - raise a stink there, and perhaps throw a little red paint on the abortionists' cars.
| Scrappy Newfoundland Premier Danny Williams faced off against rock legend-turned-animal rights crusader Paul McCartney during a heated debate on Canada's annual seal hunt Friday night, accusing the former Beatle and his wife of being gravely misinformed. "First of all, the information that hasn't been given is that 90 per cent of these seals are killed by bullets, they are not all clubbed," Williams said in a debate that aired on CNN's Larry King Live, as Heather Mills McCartney shook her head in apparent disbelief. ... "If you take the McCartneys' arguments to the extreme that they are willing to go, there will be no beef slaughter, there will be no pork slaughter, there will be no chicken slaughter, there will be no fish in restaurants, there will be no eggs, there will be no milk for children," Williams said. ... Meanwhile, Newfoundland musician Alan Doyle of Great Big Sea added his voice to the hunt debate saying the McCartneys' photo op on the ice is misleading and unfair. "There has not been a cute and cuddly baby seal hunt in a long, long time," Doyle said in a journal entry from the group's current tour, pointing out that Canada has banned the killing of newborn, whitecoat pups. "Older harp seals are what the sealers are after, but I'll bet these much uglier dudes won't make the final photo." The McCartneys have garnered two days of intense media attention for their protest of the hunt. The couple frolicked with harp seal pups on a Gulf of St. Lawrence ice floe Thursday as a throng of photographers recorded the event. |
Comment: Besides the obvious dishonesty of posing with cute/cuddly critters who are not even legal prey in Canada, the Premier of Newfoundland was correct - to be consistant, you'd have to outlaw all animal slaughter to be consistant. If anything, I'd go so far as to say these wild seals have much better lives (well, at least when they're not being eaten alive by killer whales) than animals raised on modern factory farms.
In the end though, windbags like McCartney, Pamela Anderson and the rest of the "bored and privileged" PETA goons would be a lot more credible in my eyes if they started every one one of their "humane treatment" campaigns with a stop at the local "Planned Parenthood" clinic - raise a stink there, and perhaps throw a little red paint on the abortionists' cars.
posted by The Rambler at 7:19 AM
2 Comments:
The McCartneys mean well but I need my protein... so I'm not going to be a hypocrite.
Morally there's no problem with hunting if you efficiently use what you kill. What are the hunted grown seals used for?
So much for the joke in bad taste from a few years ago:
Sir Paul: Kids, your mum has passed on.... but the good news is: steak and chips tonight!
It's ironic how little changes. In the late 70's the Soviets looked at the outrage America had over seals being harvested by aboriginal peoples in order to make a living and then at the apathy America had regarding the killing fields of Cambodia and elsewhere. The USSR figured it had a free ride in Afghanistan. What they did not figure is Ronald Reagans response. Now we have Orthodox christians being killed in Kosova, people slaughtered in Sudan, and babies being raped in Africa (in hopes of clearing out HIV in adult males) and Sir Paul is doing a photo-op with baby seals. Where are the Polar Bears when you need them?
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