When the Canadian government tries to justify this kind of slaughter, then you know just how "noble" the human species really is. Today the annual seal cull begins, as human beings make money from clubbing seals to death. The seals' crime? To compete for fish stocks against humans. Just like foxes, badgers and every other animal on earth killed for daring to "compete" with us, the truth is actually very different.
Seals, badgers, foxes and so on have lived on this planet side-by-side with humans for countless thousands of years. We have supposedly evolved to think and empathise with what goes on around us. We certainly make good use of these evolutionary advantages, but when push comes to shove we're unwilling to accept the responsibility that goes with them. Rather than look at our own increasingly unsustainable lifestyles we strike out at other creatures. It's their fault we breed like rabbits on heat, consume more than our fair share of the world's resources and generally spend time interfering with the natural order of things. Seals eat to survive, we harvest fish stocks to make money.
No doubt it'll be their fault too when we finally go over the edge and prompt the mass extinction that will devastate life on earth and reveal just how dependent we are on our own planet for life, never mind anything else. In the meantime, discover just how noble the human species is when clubbing seals to death by reading today's Sunday Mirror (see here). Read it, weep and then do what we humans - myself included - always do. Turn a blind eye.
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