Seal clubbing is a horrible act that kills thousands of seals every year. Some do it for their pelts and some do it as a sport. The people that do it for their pelts usually skin them alive. Can you imagine not being able to do anything while people cut you and pull off your skin? There are even places that have seal clubbing festivals. And the government in Norway is considering making seal clubbing an event for tourists. How can epople support that? It's the same thing as a person bashing in the head of someones baby. The only difference is that they go to jail for it.




A recap of the slaughter of 2006 When sealers in the southern Gulf started killing, they found that only 20% of the seals had completely moulted. Since raggedy jackets (see photo above) don't bring as high a price, some waited it out. In the end, they killed more than their quota of 18,000 seals. In the northern Gulf, in just a couple days, sealers killed over 88,000 seal pups. All told, over 108,000 innocent pups were killed in the Gulf. This is 16,000 over the quota. There are no penalties for exceeding the quota. What's more, this is the only the official count; this doesn't include pups they wound, who escape and die later.
In addition to the slaughter by Maritime sealers, seal pups have been washing on shores, dead, presumably from drowning. Pups only learn to swim weeks after they are born, so they depend on good ice conditions; but this year, the ice conditions were the worst in recorded history.


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