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Default Is Eating Meat Ethical?

On 04/04/2012 8:50 PM, A Moose in Love wrote:
> On Apr 4, 7:47 pm, > wrote:
>> On Apr 4, 2:30 pm, A Moose in > 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.

>>
>> Are you going to eat the seal?

>
> The Inuit eat seal meat. I understand that it's a horrible meat to
> eat if you are used to western tastes.


If seal pups looked like lobsters people would have no problem dropping
them live into a pot of boiling water.