today, the 23rd of march, marked the beginning of this year's slaughter of seals, off the eastern shores of canada. the 'quota' for this year has been increased-due in large part i am confident, in the less successful slaughter of last year, when the weather kept the murder and carnage down a little below the 'official' target of 275,000. this year the quota sits at 338,200...an odd number to set.
already there have been babies slaughtered, heads caved in by the hakapiks wielded by these marauding human beasts rushing across the seals' makeshift nurseries and birthplaces....the imagery is far too graphic to post....blood flowing across the previously pristine white of the ice and snow...bodies lying in pools of life juices before being dragged and tossed into waiting small boats...others being skinned then and there...still moving....twitching and worse...
what evil an animal we are....to first set out and decimate the populations of various fish species, and then, to assuage what little guilt one may have for that, create a scapegoat and thus, a make work project by targetting another species as being the culprits of over-eating those fish populations....all the time fully aware it has all been our doing, as the rogue species of nature....
when will this ever stop???
