I'm not picking on Canadians. If this were happening anywhere else, even where I live here in the USA, I still wouldn't be picking on anybody.
I personally do not agree with hunting as a "sport" one bit, but I think that seals don't have to be killed. People don't need seals for anything, I'm sure there are more than a few alternatives. People can wear vegan clothes, and eat more common meats besides seal meat. I think the notion of veal is gross, and I personally do not eat veal, even though I do eat meat. I see no reason for people to eat veal and support that sector of the beef industry, when they can just as easily eat the more commonly available and traditional meats like plain old beef.
I don't understand what is meant by taking this cause head on instead of from the side....this is the cause, you can't lump them all together. I mean, you can if you want to, but I prefer to seperate things and work on them individually...seal hunting is an issue, but which bigger issue are you suggesting it is part of?
I see it as seals are wild animals, and you just don't do that to wild creatures. Wild animals and domestic animals deserve equal rights and welfare protection. Slaughter of domestic animals has alot of thought put into it as to the most "humane" method possible, so, does this seal hunting get as much thought and scientific evidence possible put into it that showed that this method of killing them is the most "humane"?
And what apparently much bigger cause is this a part of, that makes this seal hunting look so small and unimportant? Maybe you're just used to it because its part of your culture, and you maybe grew up with it. Its nothing new or surprising to you.
I'll accept that if you truly feel people are making a big fuss over nothing, then I see your point.
For example, in some country in south america or someplace around there, there is a tribe of people who are canibals, in that they eat the nutritious marrow of human bones. We cannot say that there is something or anything wrong with that, because we should be respectful of other people's cultures. If anybody wants to try to stop those people from eating humane bone marrow, than go ahead, but they probably think that some stuff that we "normal" people do is pretty screwed up too.
Seal hunting is pointless. The way I see it, it's just a bunch of people who need to make a living, and possibly even enjoy doing it, like it's a sport. Why else do they do this, if there is no justifiable reason to? Its not like everyone is going to freeze or starve to death, or die of not being fashionable, if seal hunting is eliminated. Maybe its one part of something bigger that I happen to care more about than whatever the bigger picture is.