On Apr 4, 5:48*pm, dsi1 > wrote:
> On 4/4/2012 11:30 AM, A Moose in Love wrote:
>
> > Let's kick it up a notch. *Is the killing of seals for their pelts
> > ethical? *Please note that in Canada sealers are prohibited from
> > slaughtering baby seals.
> > Sealing is dying here because seals are cuter than pigs and Paul poses
> > with them.
>
> My guess is that it's not ethical to steal what belongs to another being
> i.e., their bodies. I guess it's OK since a lot of animals kill other
> animals for food too. I gonna feel a lot better when we get that new
> non-conscious meat grown in meat-growing tanks. That will pretty much
> take care of that pesky killin' question.
>
> I saw Varick Frissell's 1931 movie "The Viking" in TV the other night.
> Holy smokes, old time sealing was really dangerous! You guys really need
> seal farms. :-)

'Zero Kelvin' was a good film. The background being a group of
Swedish walrus hunters; then it's man against nature, and man against
man.