Europeans To Rule on Seal Product Ban this Month
Posted by Peter Endisch on July 11th, 2008 at 15:32 PDT (Animal Welfare)
The lives of millions of seals around the world are now in the hands of the European Parliament. A bill to ban products made from the inhumane slaughter of seals will be put to a vote of the 27 member nations of the European community between July 16th and July 23rd.
Inhumane killing will apply to all seals that are slaughtered by clubs and will affect the market for seal products from Canada and Namibia especially. European Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas has confirmed that inhumane killing will be applied to death by clubbing.
Mr. Dimas appeared confident it will pass. “We have strong support from the French presidency,” he told the wire service Agence France-Presse.
“When you club (seals) them it is probably the most effective way to do it,” said Jim Winter, a founder of the Canadian Sealers Association. “It’s a huge hypocrisy.”
“Gas chambers were the most effective way of killing Jews,” said Captain Paul Watson. “Effectiveness is a NAZI like justification for cruelty. The slaughter of seals has no place in the 21st Century and Jim Winter is simply a paid public relations whore who would justify the slaughter of human babies if he were paid to do so.”
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nikdo said,
July 11, 2008 at 15:36 PDT
You’ve got to love Paul Watson. He does not mince words with criminals, such as Jim Winter, a founder of the Canadian Sealers Association or Loyola Hearn, minister of Department of Fisheries and Oceans.
Loyola Hearn is a twit that has no place in Canadian politics and I am counting the days till he gets booted out.