tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18167066.post114144159198472578..comments2023-08-21T10:04:34.307-05:00Comments on Lumoto's Woes: Friday report - and asking a favorLumotohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13301508867497072681noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18167066.post-1141514448114854032006-03-04T17:20:00.000-06:002006-03-04T17:20:00.000-06:00Indeed, I'm fully aware of the inhumane treatment ...Indeed, I'm fully aware of the inhumane treatment of our cows and chickens, etc, and if I could change it I would. And yes, I sign petitions for them, too, and I do boycot KFC! If there were a law passed tomorrow that all slaughter houses were to be closed and out of business, I would get me some tomato plants and cheer!<BR/><BR/>I enjoyed the dabate. Take care.Lumotohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13301508867497072681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18167066.post-1141513309503034772006-03-04T17:01:00.000-06:002006-03-04T17:01:00.000-06:00Most of these seals ARE shot, quickly and efficien...Most of these seals ARE shot, quickly and efficiently. Regardless, when you club an animal, they are knocked out before they know what is happening.<BR/><BR/>What is actually inhumane is how the animals filling your own dinner plate are treated. <BR/><BR/>I would be careful using the word barbaric to describe the practices of another culture. Learn first, judge later. <BR/><BR/>Also be careful signing anything of which you are uninformed. That includes petitions. Especially if you eat meat... Like they say, if you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18167066.post-1141511537424981492006-03-04T16:32:00.000-06:002006-03-04T16:32:00.000-06:00Thanks for the snapshot of your world. Living near...Thanks for the snapshot of your world. Living near the Gulf of Mexico is indeed a world away. It sounds like maybe control of the foreign trawlers might be prudent. Mankind creates all sorts of problems that Nature could handle just fine if left alone.<BR/><BR/>Of course I realize that we all need some animal bi-products; but as technology increases, like with synthetics, etc, that dependence lessens. <BR/><BR/>Most assuredly it's all round truly a tragic situation, but regardless, the torture of any living thing should never be allowed, permitted, condoned, sanctioned, excused, no matter how ancient the practice. To say to club it to death so it won't starve to death.... I would hope society could move past barbarism. <BR/><BR/>If the man must have it to feed, clothe his children and there are no other alternatives, then shoot it in the head, quick and sudden death. I would guess that the situation of choice of starving opposed to hunting is rare. <BR/><BR/>Where I live hunters are far too plentiful (Texas). All with their rifles in their racks in their big pickup trucks and bragging what game they shot. They paid a fortune for hunting leases and are in absolutely no fear of starving to death, and even go to these canned hunts calling themselves sportsmen! I can't stand that mentality! Then they try to say, but the deer are encroaching on the neighborhoods and need to be shot. But at the same time, they hunted wolves to almost extention, allowing the deer population to go unchecked. See? Leave nature alone! Respect nature and try to be part of it instead of analiating it. Why did they have to hunt down the wolves to begin with? Well, that's another issue. <BR/><BR/>But be that as it may. Nobody is asking me to solve these problems, only to sign a petition of protest every now and then.<BR/><BR/>Cudos to you for being vegetarian. Maybe one day I'll take that step and do the same.<BR/><BR/>And for what it's worth, I seriously doubt Humane Society will be able to stop the hunt. I'm sure it's safe for another hundred years.Lumotohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13301508867497072681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18167066.post-1141509199335385122006-03-04T15:53:00.000-06:002006-03-04T15:53:00.000-06:00I am a vegetarian, but I have to say this: Please ...I am a vegetarian, but I have to say this: Please inform yourself before you go willy-nilly trying to get people to sign petitions for things about which you know very little (and that may just be stretching it).<BR/><BR/>If you are worried about animal torture, how about this: If seal hunters don't control the seal populations, the lack of cod stocks in the Atlantic oceans (depleted by foreign trawlers) will allow an even greater number of these adorable creatures to starve and die. But there's no blood or people involved, so I guess that's ok.<BR/><BR/>Or how about this: Sealers are honest, hard-working folk who participate in an age-old industry that is part of their culture. If we place further sanctions on the hunts, what happens to sealers families? Children? Oh sorry kids, dad can't put food on the table this week because Paul McCartney says so.<BR/><BR/>Here, seal is eaten seasonally... every year my mother participates in a charity-based seal-flipper dinner that is hosted by one of the many local churches... The money goes back into the community. Furthermore, seal oils are used to cure the protective clothing that is so needed in harsh northern climates.<BR/><BR/>But then again, those seals are just so darn cute. Definitely cuter than cows... who cares how much capital is made off their mass slaughters every year.<BR/><BR/>I've grown weary of the ethnocentrism that continues to allow high-horsed celebrities to nose in on cultural practices that they know absolutely nothing about. The real tragedy of the story is the lack of cod for both the native Newfoundlanders and the seals... but no one wants to cuddle up in a photo with a slimy old fish.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18167066.post-1141504970923842352006-03-04T14:42:00.000-06:002006-03-04T14:42:00.000-06:00I suppose nothing if your conscious will allow you...I suppose nothing if your conscious will allow you to bask in your own self-indulgent comforts knowing what the poor unfortunate seals had to endure. But better them than you, right! You didn't feel a thing. <BR/><BR/>Let me say this -- I do eat beef, chicken, pork and fish (that's about it!) and do have some leather goods, though it's at a bare minimum the more I learn of how these animals are treated. My biggest complaint is the "sport" mentality of a something that inflicts pain and cruelty upon the innocent. There must be a more humane way to deal with these things. <BR/><BR/>Thanks for your comment.Lumotohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13301508867497072681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18167066.post-1141504133623248612006-03-04T14:28:00.000-06:002006-03-04T14:28:00.000-06:00Seals are tasty. Put 'em in a pie and eat them al...Seals are tasty. Put 'em in a pie and eat them all up. Make a jacket or slippers outta the fur and now you got a full belly and warm feet! Now what's wrong with that!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com