I'd like a Seal sandwich... and can you club that for me?

You know, because when you club a sandwich you get tomato and lettuce and... yeah i'm going to hell...

Ok so this is the primary focus of todays Blog, which was going to start out to be just sealing, but will now be primarily about protestors. And I promise i'll enrage someone soon so keep reading.

This year there is a quota of 330,000 seals to be killed. Sealing-protestors (and not all) dont want any killed.

But this is a debate right? There are pro and cons, reasons why they should and shouldn't be killed. That's how a debate is supposed to go. Measure the pro's and the con's, and meticulously determine which is the right step to take. But the sealing-protestors dont see why it's needed, they just see white snuggly soft seals on their snow white snow with hellish red blood spilled everywhere. And baby seals are totally super cute for the record.

Now this isn't just a jab at sealing-protestors either... it's a jab at all protestors. Abortion protestors for example, stating their causes for pro-life... by blowing up clinics and killing people (again, not all do this). When they're told that there isn't even brain activity until th 4th tri-mester their main argument is "you're killing the potential of life". So does this mean you're abhorently against condoms and masturbating? Becuase you're killing the potential?

Now not all protesting is bad either. Infact I'd probably say that all non-violent, well thought out protesting is good. To be so passionate about something that you would dedicate so much time and energy into it, in some cases dedicating your very life to it is amazing, and quite honestly something I've never had the grace to experience. An old old friend, next door neighbour is very much like this. She has so much passion, so much drive. I might not agree with her all the time, but she does it in a way that actually makes her credible and that people would listen to what she says.

Ok so why is sealing good? Well for starters, the basic need to hunt seals stems directly from man. We both have a common food source, fish. Salmon to be specific if i remember correctly. So what happens if we just leave the seals alone? Well, the 330,000 seals that are alive eat more fish, depleting our own food source. They reproduce, next year there's more, etc etc etc. It's at a point that the seals would actually eat themselves out of food. Not to mention they would eat a lot of food that people would also eat. And a large percentage of the world depends on the food from these areas. Not to mention the food that we actually get from the seals.

However...

Running up to a seal, smashing it's skull, taking it on the boat while it's still alive, skinning it alive, and throwing it's still moving body into the freezing water so it can freeze to death while it drowns is absolutely horrendous. Realistically speaking how sealing should work is simular to how other slaughter-type areas are "supposed" to work. And I say "supposed" because we all know the actual conditions of some of these chicken coops and cattle farms.

If we're going to keep doing this (which really we have to) it should be done humainly and as pain free as possible. We should use all the seal meat, there should be VERY strict guidelines to how this works. Spiked clubs though? Really come on!

Stopping all sealing is impossible the way things are now. You'll never get the government to do it. So the faster you realize this, the faster you can make the changes that actually can (and should) happen.

A Final Message:
To the protestors. Your passion is admirable, and your drive is inspiring, but you need to use enough thought to realize which battles can be won, and which ones can't. There are a lot of people that do this already, but there are alot (like PETA) who dont, and just attack anyone who does something even remotely wrong. Take this fantastic drive that you have and start using it towards actual achievable goals. If you do this, the good and amazing changes you could do would be world changing. Yes we know you want more, and there's nothing wrong with you message, but when it comes to the fight, fight for what you can change, and change it what you will see.