Is it true Canada&Norway are killing seals for fun/as a sport?

I saw this blog on myspace


And it said that Canada and Norway are killing seals


for fun and as a sport?





I want to know if this is true,


and if there are any articles or reports backing this up


and confirming it?


I'd really like to know





Here's the blog where I found the story


http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view%26amp;friendID=140074876%26amp;blogID=261008215Is it true Canada%26amp;Norway are killing seals for fun/as a sport?
No, it's not. At least not in Canada.





There a lot of lies circulating about the seal hunt, but people are only mad about it either because of the large amount of misinformations circulating, (for example a lot of the protestors have pictures of baby white coats, it's been illegal to hunt those in Canada since 1987, or that the seal hunt isn't sustainable.) Or because they don't like the idea of killing seals because they're cute.





The facts are, the seal hunt is much more sustainable than the fisheries (I would like to point out that those same European countries that are banning seal products are the ones who are ocean trolling, which is basically putting a giant net on the bottom of the ocean taking everything up and throwing away what they don't want) completely humaine (the protestors accusations that I have looked up have absolutley no basis nor any proof to support their accusations, except that what they are claiming is happening has been said to be unhumaine by veterenarians, they have no proof that what they say is happening is) and the seal hunt is the main source of income for many of the hunters.





This is an article by the CBC, they're the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. They're a government funded reliable news source.





http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/sealhu鈥?/a>Is it true Canada%26amp;Norway are killing seals for fun/as a sport?
It's so true! Here is the link I found online: http://www.gaiaonline.com/gaia/redirect.php?r=http%3A%2F%2Ftuleni.hit.bg%2Findexeng.html

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why does nobody ever read what I write? Or look at the news articles I've dug up!? The first picture you have in your link is a baby white coat. Whoever killed it either killed it 20 years ago or did it illegally, not as part of the seal hunt. This link you have is full of lies.

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No not real
No it's not true for Canada, the native people kill a certain amount of seal pups each year for food and they sell the pelts to clothing and coat manufacturers. The government and the Native tribe settle on a certain number of seal pups to be killed each year.
That,





Is dumb.





Seals are only killed here in Canada for:





1. Pelts. Mmmm sure love them soft pelts.


2. Food. The Inuit eat seals all the time.


3. Environment. The damned seals eat all the fish.
Killing seals is definately NOT a sport in Norway either. That would be conidered immoral and it is also illegal.
i do not think it is true.

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