As someone who grew up in Eastern Canada I can tell you first hand that there is a lot of hog wash being thrown around regarding this issue.
The celebrities so strongly against the “clubbing of seals” definetly do not have a full understanding of the issue. In fact, when Paul McCartney and his wife Heather came to Charlottetown, PEI to be interviewed for the Canadian national news he thought he was Newfoundland :nono:
9 out of 10 seals are killed with guns. The seals have many uses and many families rely on the seal hunt to put food on the table. An over population of seals will also results in a scarcity of fish, an industry vital to the Maritimes.
Fergie, although the seal hunt may not sit well with you & others – do you not agree that there are more important issues in our world today? If all these people making a fuss about the seal hunt in Eastern Canada donated their time and money to boosting the agricultural infrastructure in Africa, more humans, many of which are kids, would be saved then seals die from clubbing in a given year.