Someone once said “Species don’t suffer. Individual animals suffer.” That’s my attitude when it comes to words like “sustainability” in reference to animals, and “wildlife ‘management’”.
2006 Seal Hunt video diaries
2006 Seal Hunt Cruelty Exposed
“Angry sealers hurled bloody seal guts at animal rights activists as tempers flared on the first day of the seal hunt Saturday.
“Protesters charged the sealers with their inflatable Zodiac motorboats and the sealers returned in kind, hurling seal intestines and curses whenever the activists got too close….”
Read it all: CBC News “Temperatures, tempers soar as seal hunt starts on East Coast”
ENS News:
“Sealers Block Environmental Observers From Reaching Seal Hunt”
Related articles by Matthew Scully, originally printed in
The National Post, a Canadian paper (last year):
“Canada’s Season of Shame is Upon Us”
“Canada’s Cowardly Face”
“As Christians, we’re called to offer a better way, one that is less violent, more compassionate, more sensitive to the less fortunate, and less arrogant. We’re called to offer the teachings of Jesus Christ in every situation, even if we don’t name those teachings as Christian. But we cannot separate our secular lives from our spiritual lives… to do that undermines the integrity of what it means to live as Christians. Our baptismal covenant is an all or nothing set of affirmations, without qualification or condition.”
– The Rev. Liz Zivanov (quoted with permission)
I am reminded of the following question and answer in our Service of Baptism:
Do you renounce the evil powers of this world which corrupt and destroy the creatures of God?
I renounce them.
That’s my last word on this topic — until next year.
