News Travels Slowly These Days

The world has spoken and it wants Canada's dead seals no more.

The United States leaving behind the practice of seal killing decades ago,  the imposing figure of Russia's Vladimir Putin putting a stop what he called "a bloody industry", and the nail-in-the-coffin decision of the European Union banning the import of seal products, leaves Canada alone.

By themselves, with no customer, the handful of commercial fishermen who cruelly kill thousands of seal pups each year look to the taxpayer for funding, and the Department of Fisheries and Oceans for purpose, to continue to kill seals.

The market for seal pelts is closed. 

The DFO has tried and tried to cater to the last remaining participants by having it appear to the public that the seal hunt is necessary, but there is no country in the market for dead seal.

For 25 year's the Canadian government has tried to shove seal fat down the gullet of the Chinese. They don't want it, and the growing animal welfare voice of China, becoming tired of their own country's practices, has become highly offended.

Canada continued the killing, even though the fishermen, violating Marine Mammal Regulations, admitted that they kill seals and don't even bring them in because there is no money in them.

The government, reeling from losing their fight of the EU's decision at the World Trade Organization, tried to make the public believe that maybe, just maybe, the dead seals heart valves could be useful.

But no.

The taxpayer will continue to pay for fishermen, who already have full-time jobs at fishing, to go out to kill seals "for sport" as they put it, but see no return on the investment.

The seal hunt is dead. 

The old joke, "The 80's didn't come to Canada til like '93", is all we're waiting on....for the Canadian government to find out it's ended.