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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39http://boycott-canada.com
Patricia McKenna, Irish MEP (Green Party)
http://boycott-canada.com
Boycott Canada!
A million baby seals to be killed
Dublin's Green MEP joins protests at Canadian Embassy.
http://www.pmckenna.com/media/statements/2004/04.05.12.html
. . . . .
Canada is dismissive of the international opposition it faces to this hideously cruel practice and shows contempt for world opinion on the issue. The Canadian Government is now promoting one of the cruellest hunts in history. It is using the seals as 'scapegoats' for its own mistakes having overseen the depletion of North Atlantic fish stocks by over fishing.
http://Boycott-Canada.com
. . . . .
Respect for Animals is a non-governmental organisation dedicated solely to campaigning against the cruel and unnecessary international fur trade.
Respect for Animals (and Lynx before it) believes that it is morally wrong to kill an animal for the fur on its back and by using peaceful consumer campaigns has virtually destroyed the fur trade in the UK. But worldwide an animal dies every second for 'fashion'.
http://www.respectforanimals.org
what exactley are we to boycott? Fair play to all those protesting. It just shows that the persuit of profit will go to any ends even if it means bruatally killing thousands of animals.
Celine Dion
Bryan Adams!
Alanis Morrissett!
Shouldn't be too hard.
Blame canada, Blame Canada...
why are they posing with a squirrel?
Its Patricia McKenna
Im sure there's a joke to made about one liking nuts, the other being nuts but I can't think of it....
(Just messing Patricia....)
"They only look cute and furry in the Larvae stage, few months down the line they entre the next étage and grow wings and start blood sucking, by the adult stage they're completely invisible to RADAR, and go south every 13 or 17 years, something we really don't understand. The chinese do it too..."
http://mcsrt.org/resources/quebec/chronology.htm
I shall @ the next assembly propose sending a team of advisors to Quebec from Catalanland to assist these brave people learn Catalan and train the misunderstood Larvae/Raptors to do useful things, just like top range Dolphins. (little hint- we'll still let them fly south in August).
[¿why it's all coming together, isn't it?)
1534- 1759 - 1968 -1995 - 2005 Allons a la liberté!
Maple syrup?
Fuck no!
Canada rocks!
This is just like South Park: Bigger Longer and UnCut.
Dear Cute thing, the stuffed animal in the pics is not a squirrel it`s a baby seal, it`s quite obvious.
Burn the Canadian flag!
It's a seal pup. That's more or less what they look like when they are born, much bigger, of course, but just as white and fluffy looking. It's that wonderful soft, warm, (and because white) dyeable fur that they are getting killed. And also because the fishing grounds have become so depleted by overfishing that the fishermen want fewer seal.
Of course can't expect you folks to recognize seals since you drove yours to extinction long ago.
BTW -- there's only ONE Canadian province involved in the seal hunting -- Newfoundland. Folks should keep in mind that Canada is a federation with relatively strong provincial governments (local control) and the "Newfies" didn't even become part of the Canadian federation till the 20th century (sorry, as a Yank I'm not that much up on the history of our neighbors to the North to be able to give you a more exact date).
As for maple syrup -- it's produced in the provinces of Quebec and New Brunswick, maybe some in Nova Scotia and Ontario. But sugar maples don't grow in Newfoundland/Labrador -- hell, there are bloody few trees there of any kind. But go ahead and boyoctt Canadian maple syrup if you like. We make the good stufff down here in Vermont, Maine, New York, and my own Massachusetts (but the Vermonters claim THEIRS is the best).
What makes you think seals are extinct in Ireland? That's bollocks!! I live on the south-east coast and I see about 10 a day during the summer.
The seals we have here aren't fuzzy and cute though, they look like flabby earless dogs with rotten leather for skin, and they don't have too large an appetite either. Hence, no killing.
they're seal cubs, no problems there. They grow up into Seals. no complex metamorphosis with those things.
But the cuddlier Canadian things are the Larvae stage of a very dangerous creature.
As soon as we secure independence for Quebec we can publish all the secret files, and then the quislings of Earth defence greenies will look well silly.
Would you protest if it looked like a Geiger illustration? Quit.e not at all. That's what's so sinister about these things, they've got us completely sussed.
Look cute, big eyes, look cuddly.
then come August-
the armour plated insect body breaks out of the fur and the wings unfold and they're hungry .... for blood.
Chemical analysis studies in Quebec have shown that most of the maple syrup marketed is actually beat juice (a species of sweet beat with nearly identical taste and colour). It shouldn't matter, except that "maple syrup" is like ten times over-priced...
It is a good time to point out that like millions (I have not seen actual figures worldwide) of fucking animals have been slaughtered in recent years under that heading of mad cow and the sars chicken thing. Much of this killing is a result of farmers livelihoods threatened by the free market who are forced to cull entire herd simply to maintain market prices and not because of the perceived threat of some infected livestock.
Sorry to seem willy nillie, but if animals equaled humans, if true this would be a capitalist holocaust.
And to tie it to today's torture stories, the practice of vivisection contributes to the refinement of torture techniques.
We suck.
we want to invade the USA.
not Canada.
the USA do les than cuddly third worlders,
who don't grow up into bloodsucking monsters,
The Canadians just do Larvae Raptors.
Get your priorites right.,
boycott Bryan Ferry for the moment, but don't lose sight of the real objective XXI century:-
The Break-up of the USA.
hee hee hee
Thanks to everyone who turned up...we also met with the canadian ambassador with the Irish Seal Sanctuary - we could not of done this without the great help of all who turned up. To help aran please e.mail us today
Thanks to everyone who turned up...we also met with the canadian ambassador with the Irish Seal Sanctuary - we could not of done this without the great help of all who turned up. To help aran please e.mail us today
How many countries is that we have to boycott now? USA, Canada, obviously. I guess Spain because of its bull fights, Norway and Japan because of their whaling.
The UK, Italy and Poland because of Iraq. Australia definitely, both because of Iraq and the treatment of Aborigines. Could someone make up a complete list and post it here, as its getting too difficult to keep track of. Not sure if Ireland is on the list or not, as it does allow fox hunting and hare coursing.
The green party have supported boycotts against Iceland and Canada over whaling and seal culls respectively.
They however have not called for a boycott of say Saudi Arabian oil, which is funding Al Queda terrorism on one front, and the corrupt and tryannical house of Saud on the other.
I presume in green party logic, the life of the seal cub is much more important than freedom from torture and the secret police.
Perspective people!
It reminds me of the Clark diaries, no problem selling weapons to the Iraqi (they're just arabs, but killing animials for fur, hideous)
boycott http://www.ask.com
check it out.
you'll agree.
...what's the point in killing something you ain't going to eat. Not much meat on 'em anyway - too small. Very greasy and a bit chewy too. Needs some maple syrup to make it go down. mmmmm maple syrup....
Blame Canada
Times have changed,
our kids are getting worse
They won't obey their parents they just wan't to fart and curse
Mrs. Marsh: Should we blame the government? Ms. Cartman: Or blame society?
Boys fathers: Or should
we blame the images on TV?
Sheila(Kyle's mom):
No,blame Canada, blame Canada
With all thier beedy little eyes have packed thier heads so full of lies, blame Canada, blame Canada,
we need to form a full assault its canadas fault
Mrs. Marsh:Don't blame me for my son Stan he saw the darn cartoon and now hes of to join the klan
Ms. Cartman: And my boy Eric once had my picture on his shelf but now when I see him he tells me to fuck myself
Shelia: Well? Blame Canada, blame Canada, it seems that everythings gone wrong since Canada came along, blame
Canada, blame Canada
Copy shop attendent:They're not even a real country
anyway
Mrs. McCormic!
k:
My son could have been a doctor or a lawyer rich and true instead he burned up like a piggy on a barbeque
Crowd: Should we blame the matches? Should we blame the fire?
Or the doctors who allowed
him to expire
Sheila: Heck no, blame Canada, blame Canada, with all their hockey hollabaloo
Ms. Cartman: And that bitch Ann Murray too Everyone: Blame Canada, shame on Canada, for the smut we must stuff the
trash we must stash the laughter and fuck must all be undone we must blame them the cause of fuss before
somebody thinks of blaming us
The slaughter of the babt seals sickens me!!! Many times before they are dead they skin them alive. Canada is one sick country. I am sure glad it isn't part of the USA !!!!!!!! Ione Wilson
Arrrrrrr.
Ya might not want to hold those baby seal dolls to close to your heads! Some canadian might mistake it for a real seal.
Arrrrrrrgh!
:-)
So the sausage sucking Irish think it's OK to kill pigs and chickens, but not seals? Hypocrites. Boycott your own frigging slaughterhouses.
This makes me boil. Like anyone in imperialist Europe has any right to take a moral high ground to anyone else. I suppose you would, once again, insist on taking away whatever vesitges of aboriginal culture remains. Don't pretend like the so many Irish weren't WILLINGLY in the front lines of small pox shock troops to kill natives here in Eastern Canada. Choke on your pork fat, you pasty fucks.
are killed for food. The seal aren't.
btw I'm a vegetarian.
The arsehole Green Party of Canada SUPPORTS the seal hunt. Go figure. So much for a "global" green movement.
P.P.S. The point behind all this vitriol, is that there is enough injustice generally, and cruelty to animals specifically, in Ireland, I know, I used to live there. The seal hunt, while I oppose it, is less cruel than factory farming. There are more worthwhile fights, closer to home, and all of the fanfare of attacking poor fishermen halfway around the world distracts attention to the larger issue that exists EVERYWHERE -- the billions and billions of animals enslaved, slaughtered and casually consumed daily.
Canadian seals are being murdered, for no apparent reason!
I have started a team to help spread the word and raise funds to fight the Canadian government's plan to kill nearly ONE MILLION harp seal pups in the next three years. I know you care about animals, so please take a moment to
visit my web site.
http://www.kintera.org/faf/r.asp?t=4&i=23015&u=23015-44610408&e=95237081
Yum yum, very tasty.
http://protectseals.org
go to video gallery
http://www.kintera.org/faf/r.asp?t=4&i=23015&u=23015-44610408&e=96806152
http://www.ifaw.org/ifaw/general/default.aspx?oid=562
go to watch video
These pictures and videos might make people think twice and become serious about the Canadian Seal Slaughter.
I hate people who kill seals in Canada, but not all people in Canada kill seals. It is only those Newfoundlanders who do it when they can go to the store and buy meat when the meat such as cows or pigs are slaughtered humanely.
We Mesolithic may have done it at one time or another
but were mostly mesolithic flint users who used flint
for fire instead of eating worm infested raw meat.
http://www.boards.ie/cgi-bin/dnewsweb/dnewsweb?cmd=article&group=soc.culture.celtic&item=9608&utag=
I would say Boycott America with those poor intelligent
chickens being slaughtered. I would also say boycott America because they eat cows and pigs which fall into the same category as placental mammals just like the seals.
I like the the taste of seal every now and then, but what
about the seals who eat fish? Chickens aren't mammals and neither are fish. Do fish have feelings
too? I would guess the typical blonde like Pamela Anderson could answer this question.
http://www.animalconcerns.org/newsearch.html?searchfor=boycott
...or is the Seal trade the only thing Canada gets Jingoistic about?
Quote: 'Just yesterday (25 January), Belgium became the first EU country to ban trade in seal pelts – the ban is to come into force in three weeks, much to Canada's disappointment.
Last year, Canadian fisheries minister Loyola Hearn told Belgian politicians to think about Canadian soldiers who died in Europe during the first world war before slamming the door shut on Canadian seal products, according to the Associated Press.'
more news at
http://euobserver.com/9/23356
A piece of twisted spin if ever I saw it. Unworthy of you and definitley not supported by the Canadian appeal to Belgium to remember a debt that Belgium owes to Canada.
or is it all a joke? .... not to the Newfoundlanders that depend on seal clubbing jobs