Why is the seal slaughter called a "hunt"?

Doctor_J

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Sat Apr-02-05 01:59 PM
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Why is the seal slaughter called a "hunt"?

I don't hunt, but I thought that the interesting part of it was tracking your quarry, outsmarting it, being patient, and then getting off a good shot with a weapon to finish the deal. That's a hunt.

I don't see much of that with the harp seal kill - the babies just walk up and have their brains beaten in by morons with clubs. DO "real" sport and game hunters consider the seal slaughter hunting?

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RBHam

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Sat Apr-02-05 02:01 PM
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1. It's an economic cull...

Definitely not a hunt...

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drdon326

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Sat Apr-02-05 02:02 PM
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2. Cause it sounds better than INHUMANE ABJECT FUCKING CRUELTY !!

Edited on Sat Apr-02-05 02:19 PM by drdon326

N/C

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booley

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Sat Apr-02-05 02:06 PM
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3. becuase slaughter...

Edited on Sat Apr-02-05 02:07 PM by booley

is harder to spell?

As for sportsmen, you have hunters who think it's fun to kill game while it's locked up in a cage. Not all but apparently quite a few.

Personaly when i see hunters go into a woods naked with only a knife and refuse to eat until they have caught something, THEN I will have respect for the "sport"

But that' s just me.

On edit.. remember though that these seals aren't being culled for sport but to make money. And there's very little that too cruel that people won't do for lots of money.

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drdon326

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Sat Apr-02-05 02:15 PM
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5. Fortunately...I havent seen the pictures this year....

i wish some would take a bat to these "seal murderers" and see how they like getting clubbed to death.

really is disgusting.

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Spider Jerusalem

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Sat Apr-02-05 02:12 PM
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4. I don't know...

try being an Inuit with seal hunting and fishing your only sources of subsistence and trade, and see what you call it...people who hunt because they HAVE to don't care about the thrill of the chase. They can't afford the luxury.

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bunkerbuster1

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Sat Apr-02-05 02:24 PM
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6. Dunno. Why is parking your ass in a stand, waiting for a deer to

eat bait you've set out called "deer hunting?"

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Dutch

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Sat Apr-02-05 02:27 PM
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7. Because scumbags generally like to flatter themselves, I guess...nt

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barb162

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Sat Apr-02-05 02:29 PM
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8. to legitimize and normalize what they are really doing...killing

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Spider Jerusalem

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Sat Apr-02-05 02:38 PM
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9. Hm.

Do you eat meat? Or wear leather? If "yes", then you obviously don't have a problem with killing (as long as someone does it for you)...

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