On Wednesday, April 4, 2012 2:57:08 PM UTC-10, Dave Smith wrote:
> 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 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.
> >>
> >> 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.



On Wednesday, April 4, 2012 2:57:08 PM UTC-10, Dave Smith wrote:
> 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 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.
> >>
> >> 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.

The problem with lobsters is that they don't have those big, sad, expressive, eyes. OTOH, it's odd that people would want to eat something that looks like a giant bug.