Comments on: Oh, Canada

By: Hélène

Hélène — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:17:39 +0000

I am from Canada and I am part Native from the Mik’ Maq Tribe and I DO NOT find any justification, excuse, reason to EVER ‘beat a person or an animal to DEATH. Whether a mouse, whether an elephant - ALL deserve a chance to live and a chance at life. These people who agree and participate in such inhumane and cruel treatment have had ‘their minds gone mad’. Please World : DO NOT THINK that all Canadians, all Native people are heartless. I have never hunted in my life and will never do so. I have always fought for animal rights and continue to do so. My heart is sick when I witness the barbaric world in which I live in. I treasure my life but if I could go back before my birth - would I choose to come to such a cruel world ? I answer no. What would it take for every human being to realize that all forms of life, even if it differs from our own, is precious ? I cry for the seal who is beaten to death. I cry for the bulls who suffer for hours at corridas. I cry for the dogs and cats in China who endure horrible torture of being skinned alive. Can one imagine the pain ? I cry for farm animals whose lamentations of pain are never heard as they are butchered. I cry for the Greyhounds who can no longer run and who are discarded like garbage (often hung in Spain). I cry for the dolphins who are stabbed to death in Japan. I cry for rats, mice and rabbits and all the others who languish in cages, in laboratories living constantly in a high stress environment and what pain, do they also
endure ? I cry for children who know, no love. I cry for my soul who is constantly in agony because of ‘knowing’ what my world is made up, of. This is my world and so, it is yours also … What a shame, isn’t it ?
A Native elder wrote :
You should know me and I should know you ;
Because what you do not know, you will fear ;
And what you fear … you will want to destroy.
I know also that I will carry this suffering up until the last minute on this earth.
It is not the Canadian that is bad. Nor, the American or the French, or the Japanese … it is the minds of certain individuals that go mad over greed, money … power.
I take comfort in knowing that the dogs that I have had the privilege of sharing my life with, have known no suffering. No one has abused them or deprived them of any basic needs. I protected them like I would a child … for they are ‘children’, are they not ? For those out there who are sensitive to the word ‘children’ … let me change it to ‘little ones’. I share my life now with Céleste - a beautiful Spirit of a dog. I look at her - lying so peacefully on my couch as I write this and I give thanks. In her little mind - there is no such thing as suffering or lack of food. There is no such thing as abandonment nor cold nights, tied up to a tree. She is 7 years old and only has had good humans around her. Bless your life and the life around you. It is so fragile.
I am ashamed of the Canadian government. Anyone who can justify any act of cruelty to any sentient being has also gone mad in the head.
Hélène from Québec, Canada

By: Bill

Bill — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 16:20:57 +0000

I am from Canada and this makes me sick. The seal slaughter has to be stopped, its inhumane and horrible. How can anyone take part in murdering innocent animals? Its disgusting. Most Canadians are completly against this slaughter, I just wish that our government would wake up and see how horrible and unnecessary it is.

By: Craigh

Craigh — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 01:26:35 +0000

You are all blaming Canada and Canadians for the seal hunt, this medieval hunt is committed by a minority of Canadians in fact most dislike the seal hunt.

By: Craigh

Craigh — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 19:16:39 +0000

Sandy Porter,
Canadians are aware of what goes on in their OWN COUNTRY.
I despise the seal hunt and am ashamed of it as a Canadian, but I cannot ignore false information.

By: Craigh

Craigh — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 19:10:14 +0000

Sandy Porter,
The Canadian seafood and tourism industries get most of their revenue from Canadians themselves. The boycott cannot be about all things Canadian because there are too many Canadian products around the world to weed them out. (eg. Oil and gas) The revenue lost is probably less than the revenue generated by the brutal seal hunt. Canada is one of the world’s wealthiest nations, if we can afford to live without the seal hunt, then your boycotting taking place is not hurting us very much. (My brother is an accountant)

By: Craigh

Craigh — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 18:54:28 +0000

Vanessa Valera,
It is a minority group of Canadians that commit this atrocity.
Most Canadians disdain the seal hunt.

By: Craigh

Craigh — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:30:56 +0000

I love the work PETA does, I felt that the maple syrup boycott will not be helping their cause.

By: Craigh

Craigh — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:27:46 +0000

Audrey Clark, are you speaking to the sealers or to all Canadians in general?

By: Craigh

Craigh — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:03:49 +0000

As a Canadian I am ashamed by the cruel seal hunt. On one of my many trips to this site I found an article saying that maple syrup is vital to the Canadian economy and the subsequent boycotting of it would deliver a serious hit to our ” Wallet”.
The revenue generated by the maple syrup industry is roughly equal to 1/5000th of the Canadian GDP (Gross Domestic Product. It is also four times less then the GDP of one of the poorest countries in the world (Burundi). It costs more than 213 million to build a skyscraper. A more effective boycott would be on Canadian tourism or agriculture.

By: Hannah

Hannah — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:13:58 +0000

My mother and pastor of my church always taught me that God wanted us to care for all animals, not slaughter them heartlessly. I support all animals, but come on, baby seals have done no harm to Canada, not to mention that they are some of the most beautiful creatures in the world!

*The Inuit people only hunt ADULT seals and they only kill about 10,000 yearly. There is no Inuit involved in the commericial baby seal hunt.
*Seals aren’t overpopulated, for God’s sake. Most seals only eat fish and squid that prey on cod so the Canadian fishermen actually should thank them.
*If those Canadian sealers, who are actually commercial fishermen, stopped killing baby seals, then they’d make more profits since currently a lot of people worldwide are boycotting Canadian seafoods.

Basically, there is no reason for Canada to kill those cute, harmless creatures. It’s a disgrace to the human race that such barbaric killing is being done on defenseless animals like this. Until this seal massacre stops, I’m boycotting Canadian seafood, sorry:(