Canadian Governor General eats raw seal heart to support hunters

[Mindwarp]

Canada’s Governor General began her Arctic tour by gutting a freshly slaughtered seal, pulling out its heart and eating it raw, according to media reports.

http://www.canada.com/news/Governor+General+eats+seal+heart+support+hunters/1629555/story.html

[AckAck]

Let's see Palin do that with a wolf or a moose.... :p

Brian

[Snuffy]

Bet she has ...

[Hans Jaeger]

Aw gee, she upset the Europeans. :eek:

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2009/05/26/jean-seal.html?ref=rss

I guess it's a shock for them to realize that native Inuit not only eat seal meat but eat it raw. How barbaric!

Next on the menu --- Inuit-caught whale.

I guess they'd better stick to their own gastronomic delights like caviar and foie gras.

BTW - did you know that carrots scream when you pull them out of the ground? The next PETA project when they find out about it.

[Hans Jaeger]

Further detail...

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/641536

Eating meat from any available source is a necessary way of life in the Far North, much more so than for us city slickers with our steaks and hamburgers, pork chops and chicken.

[Blue Devil]

Eating meat from any available source is a necessary way of life in the Far North, much more so than for us city slickers with our steaks and hamburgers, pork chops and chicken.

Hey, ...them city folks get their meat strait from Nature...

...at the grocery store, ...in Styrofoam containers, ...wrapped in cellophane...

[bzhyoyo]

Aw gee, she upset the Europeans. :eek:

I don't know who you're talking about. I don't think it even made the news here.
Now, there are some veggies in Europe that will surely be shocked, but I don't think they're the norm.
I know you're joking Hans, but it's just for everybody's information.

[Hans Jaeger]

I don't know who you're talking about. I don't think it even made the news here.

That may be so, but it's big enough news here. We're still colonial barbarian enough to think that Europeans are, how shall I say, effete about the matter and tend to be a little starry-eyed about cute little white seal pups (which are not hunted any more).


I know you're joking Hans, but it's just for everybody's information.

I was joking about the carrots, but not about everything else. ;)

[Snuffy]

... I was joking about the carrots, but not about everything else. ;)

Actually I've heard carrots scream ... I didn't think it was joke!

[MaskRider]

Good find Mindwarp. I linked to this story in a post at the San Diego Union Tribune today where a debate rages about whether and how seals should be removed from a local beach. Tongue in cheek I suggested that perhaps the Governor Gen of Canada was on the right track.:D

[Hans Jaeger]

Good find Panther. I linked to this story in a post at the San Diego Union Tribune today where a debate rages about whether and how seals should be removed from a local beach.

Can you give us a link for that, please?

[Toastmaker]

Actually I've heard carrots scream ... I didn't think it was joke!



Then you need to get better quality LSD. . .


:thumbs up:

[Hans Jaeger]

Here's another link...

http://www.thestar.com/gta/columnist/article/641654

In Canada, this story has legs.

[MaskRider]

Can you give us a link for that, please?

I didn't write an article or anything like that. I was just participation in the discussion thread related to an article.

The article is about a judge issuing an order for the removal of several hundred seals who, over the last decade or more, have set up housekeeping in a little artificially set off area of La Jolla Cove that was originally intended as a Children's Pool or beach. Needless to say over the years it has become a bit of a toruist attraction- even though it sits opposite a neighbor hood in La jolla. Naturally there is a large outcry from animal rights folks who don't want to see the the seals driven away.

Here is a link to the article- I don't think it requires being signed up or anything:

Banished From the Beach (http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/may/28/1n28seals005344-banished-beach/?metro&zIndex=106752&dsq=10161553#comment-10161553)

Here is the link to post in the comments section of the article. (http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/may/28/1n28seals005344-banished-beach/?metro&zIndex=106752&dsq=10161553#comment-10161553)

[Mindwarp]

You know what's really funny, I bet alot of the idiots stating this as barbaric probably have eaten sushi AT LEAST once! lol

Why isn't sushi barbaric? Raw meat is raw meat.

[Mindwarp]

You know you're a success when peta takes aim at you:

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/273254#tab=comments&sc=0&contribute=&local=


In what is sure to be a controversial campaign, the animal rights organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is taking aim at the Canadian maple syrup industry to increase pressure on the Canadian Government to abolish the seal hunt.


BWWAAHAHHAHHAHHHAHHAHHA!!!!!

[Hans Jaeger]

I didn't write an article or anything like that. I was just participation in the discussion thread related to an article.

I wonder which participant you were? Disclaimer - I did not read all the comments. :)


The article is about a judge issuing an order for the removal of several hundred seals who, over the last decade or more, have set up housekeeping in a little artificially set off area of La Jolla Cove

An amazing situation in many different ways, not the least of which is the estimated official cost! If barking dogs works so well all they need is a guy there for a while with a German shepherd or two, and that will probably be problem solved!

I'm sure the seals can set up housekeeping somewhere else.

[Hans Jaeger]

You know what's really funny, I bet alot of the idiots stating this as barbaric probably have eaten sushi AT LEAST once! lol

I actually like it when do-gooders take a stance like this. I think it does them more harm than good with the general public, which, if I read it right, has a lot of sympathy for traditional aboriginal ways.

[Hans Jaeger]

Comment continues...

http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/story.html?id=1640750


But far be it from us to nitpick. If the Environment Commissioner thinks a traditional aboriginal way of life is "bizarre," so much the worse for him. No doubt if he were ever invited to a traditional pig-slaughtering ceremony in the isles of his native Greece, with its equally intricate and intimate plenitude of carnality, he would turn around at the first sight of blood and run the other way.

It is odd that the {EU} Environment Commissioner's opinion should be solicited at all, anyway. Governor-General Jean has been accused of conspiring to conflate the traditional Inuit seal hunt with the commercial one in Newfoundland and the Gulf of St. Lawrence. From a purely environmental perspective, both easily pass muster for sustainability. Criticisms of both are not even overblown environmentalism; they're just plain fake environmentalism. They may, on the other hand, be good morality, from the standpoint of those who have never soiled their fingers with a Chicken McNugget (or for that matter, a tasty hunk of Greek Loukaniko sausage).

But then, what would an ethical vegetarian say to an Innu who was simply eating, and feeding a guest, according to the traditions of his people? Is the issue that their love of seal meat makes them morally inferior human beings? Or is it just that a Governor-General ought not to compromise her own innate superiority by hunkering down and eating with them?

[Mindwarp]

Just for comparison:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1189161/Pictured-The-brutal-slaughter-pilot-whales-annual-Faroe-Island-tradition.html

[Snuffy]

Nice. :prop:

[Blue Devil]

I didn't write an article or anything like that. I was just participation in the discussion thread related to an article.

The article is about a judge issuing an order for the removal of several hundred seals who, over the last decade or more, have set up housekeeping in a little artificially set off area of La Jolla Cove that was originally intended as a Children's Pool or beach. Needless to say over the years it has become a bit of a toruist attraction- even though it sits opposite a neighbor hood in La jolla. Naturally there is a large outcry from animal rights folks who don't want to see the the seals driven away.

Here is a link to the article- I don't think it requires being signed up or anything:

Banished From the Beach (http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/may/28/1n28seals005344-banished-beach/?metro&zIndex=106752&dsq=10161553#comment-10161553)

Here is the link to post in the comments section of the article. (http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/may/28/1n28seals005344-banished-beach/?metro&zIndex=106752&dsq=10161553#comment-10161553)

They didn't mention that the seal activity, ...attracts sharks.

...and that the ~$700,000 current proposal for seal abatement was for a loudspeaker system to play recordings, ...of barking dogs. (seals don't like it)


Neighbor kid down the street could do the job for ~$350, ...and does (to his immediate neighbor's distress) every Friday night.

For a conservative part of the country, ...San Diego city and county politics is sure shot full of wing-nuts and morons...

How do they ever get elected...?

[Hans Jaeger]

Thanks for that Faroe link... very timely.

Sustainable population, traditional harvest, culturally ingrained, no wastage... I can't think of a thing so wrong with it that I would campaign against it.

None of us likes the actual act of slaughter of animals for food, but if you want meat somebody has to do the dirty work.

As one who has gutted and prepared moose, deer, rabbits, grouse and ducks for consumption, I know it's an unpleasant task but ultimately it leads to a source of pride in providing your own food for your family's table. Those who buy their meat pre-packaged in a grocery store or served up in restaurants (which is most people) should have the sense to see items like this and move on, having only taken a lesson in what it means to consume an animal. The process of killing it and preparing it is not as pleasurable as the taste on your fork.

[bzhyoyo]

In Canada, this story has legs.

can't talk for the other European countries, but here this story has none. Seems only two people in Europe knew about this story and were upset. The fact that they work for the EU institutions has not given them any importance in the media.

[Hans Jaeger]

So if it's not news everywhere then it's not worth talking about?

Perhaps it should be visible news in Europe since the sense is that Europeans are up in arms about those poor seals. That's the impression that one gets from the talk and the actions of EU officials.

[bzhyoyo]

So if it's not news everywhere then it's not worth talking about?

That's not what I meant. I just wanted to compare the fuss it seems to make in the media in Canada and the relative non-event it is in Europe, nothing more.

I can tell you that with the elections for the European parliament next week, there's plenty more to make the news here and that Europeans care much more about the victory of the Barca in the football Champion's League!

[Hans Jaeger]

..relative non-event it is in Europe, nothing more...
Europeans care much more about the victory of the Barca in the football Champion's League!

Then the EU parliament's ban on seal products (and the "environmental commissioner"'s reaction to eating seal) is nothing more than an elitist knee-jerk reaction to issues they don't understand.