Take a look at HSUS.org right now. The whole main page has been dedicated to addressing the seal slaughter that began this weekend. In addition to finding updated news from HSUS and information on how you can work to end the senseless killing, you can also watch video activists have been shooting on the scene, including footage of an attempted ramming of their boat by the sealers. For more on that incident, you can also read this story I found.The "hunting" is fairly bad, thanks to the warm weather (no one seems to be pointing a finger at global warming), which has forced the sealers to shoot the seals as they lie trapped on tiny chunks of ice, rushing to scoop them up and skin them. Unfortunately for the "hunters," many defenseless seals died at the hands of nature, due to a lack of ice for them to survive upon.
I don't necessarily think drowning is preferable to being shot to death, to be honest, but the Canadian seal "hunt" as a whole is so shallow and despicable that calling it a hunt is akin to calling deep sea trawling "fishing." The terms make it sound like something you or your dad or grand dad might have done together when you were a kid, but nothing could be further from the truth.
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