SEALS ARE DELICIOUS, SO LET'S KILL AND EAT THEM (Interview) - Polidicks

[QUOTE][IMG]http://assets.vice.com/content-images/contentimage/127299/whitecoat-seal.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE] [QUOTE]Seal hunting gets a bad rap. The phrase probably gives you a visual of agro dudes cracking the skulls of helpless seals with giant wooden clubs, and everyone from Morrissey to American celebrity chefs is pissed off that it's still a tradition in many parts of Canada, including Newfoundland and Labrador. The EU has banned seal meat from their markets, and China won’t touch the stuff after a trade agreement that was signed in 2011. Despite this, seals are still hunted for the same reasons they've always been—their soft, cuddly, pelts and uniquely flavored meat—and last week, the Canadian, Newfoundland, and Labrador governments announced that they are investing almost $500,000 into a pilot project to place seal meat into specialty grocery stores. Hunting styles have changed since the bad old days, and though things are still bloody out on the icebergs—in the best case scenario, a seal is killed by a shot to the head followed by a coup de grâce with a hakapik, a 12-ounce metal pick that has a hammer on one end and a sickle on the other—the Canadian government says current hunting practices are as humane as they can be. Additionally, Canada has so many seals that they're threatening coastal fish populations; killing them in many situations is actually doing the ecosystem a favor. Amid all this controversy, Canadian restaurants are still serving seal meat. I spoke with Todd Perrin, the chef at the Mallard Cottage, one of the places where you can get seal when its in season, to get his perspective on the international shitshow of opinions surrounding the culture of this fatty meat, and learn why he's so determined to keep it on his menu. [B]VICE: What do you think about the American chefs who signed the petition to boycott Canadian seafood to protest seal hunting?[/B] Todd Perrin: The idea of the baby whitecoat getting bashed over the head by the rough Newfoundlander—that's been outlawed for years. I think that those chefs were sold a line of propaganda by anti-sealing groups that are using inaccurate, dated observations. [B]Do you think that this petition will affect the seal hunt?[/B] Can they run their operations in the United States without Canadian seafood? Yes. Signing a petition against seal products is not going to do much, but if you boycott the Canadian seafood industry as a whole, the petition will turn the big fish on the little fish, so to speak. [B]How are seals hunted today?[/B] Seals are shot with high-powered rifles [and] finished off in a humane way with a hakapik. The pelts, the fat, and all of the meat is used a la offal style. The government regulates the hunt, but that’s not to say that everything is always perfect. The seal hunt is no worse than any other animal hunt. [B]Why do you think that there is such an international focus on seal hunting right now?[/B] The European Union reinforcing their ban on seal products has brought a lot of attention to it again. I think it’s also because of the fundraising value that it has for animal-rights lobbyists. Picture a cute, cuddly, baby whitecoat seal. People identify with it—something that chickens, cows, and moose don't have. There is no way that some housewife in New York City is going to send you $50 if you mail her a postcard with a picture of a chicken on it. [B]Do you serve it at your restaurant?[/B] Yes. We will have it on our menu when the seal hunt begins in springtime. We like to braise the flippers and make a stew from them, or serve pulled seal meat, which has a very similar texture to pulled pork. We also cook the loins like lamb, make seal carpaccio, smoked seal meat, fresh sausages, terrines, and even seal oil ice cream. That didn't turn out very well. [B]...[/B][/QUOTE] [B]Read the rest of the article[/B]: [url]http://www.vice.com/read/the-world-is-hung-up-on-seal-hunting[/url]

what the fuck are you doing

Is today Weird Ass Vice Article Day?

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what do they taste like

why there is such a huge opposition to seal hunting: [IMG]http://cdn.hdwallpaperspics.com/uploads/2013/01/Baby_Seal.jpg[/IMG]

[QUOTE=Fire Kracker;43206976]what do they taste like[/QUOTE] Like meat

If they're overpopulated, people are killing them humanely and they're using the meat and pelts. I don't see what the problem is.

[QUOTE=Sir_takeslot;43207003]If they're overpopulated, people are killing them humanely and they're using the meat and pelts. I don't see what the problem is.[/QUOTE] Muh cute animals! Killing is wrong!

but because they're cute guys that doesn't matter save the seals #whalewars #sealsarepeople2

[QUOTE=Jagur;43207027]but because they're cute guys that doesn't matter save the seals #whalewars #sealsarepeople2[/QUOTE] Cute goes out the window if they're tasty.

"So a seal walks into a club" Hurr Hurr

[QUOTE=dwt110;43206983]why there is such a huge opposition to seal hunting: [IMG]http://cdn.hdwallpaperspics.com/uploads/2013/01/Baby_Seal.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE] The cutest ones are always the tastiest.

Seals are dicks they'll just waltz up and eat the salmon right out of our nets all the time.

Terrible creatures, males known to attack and repel females until her pup either starves or is killed by other shithead seals, so he can fuck her. Can't wack 'em hard enough to be crueler than that.

i don't think vice gets to count as a reputable news source. too many of their stories could be posted [URL="https://twitter.com/Vice_Is_Hip"]here[/URL]

[QUOTE=zakedodead;43207315]Seals are dicks they'll just waltz up and eat the salmon right out of our nets all the time.[/QUOTE] This too. Salmon eatin, baby killin, lazy beachbum shitheads.

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The cuter they are the harder you are supposed to hit them over the head

[img]http://www.navysealfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/navy-seal-photos-sea-assault__16_.jpg[/img] good luck.

I find the killing the harp seal very offensive.

If they're overpopulated, and threaten other wildlife, then they've gone from being an endangered species to a sustained one. In which case, seal hunting is entirely justified, as it is with other sustained species like deer and caribou. However, as with all hunts, regulation is important to avoid them becoming endangered again. Of course, we don't eat them for the same reason we don't eat cats or horses. They're cute (or smart, or plotting world domination), and it seems cruel to do so.

Its wrong because these Seals have absolutely no chance of escape, unlike deer or most other game while have an actual chance, seals have no chance kf escapeing when a man with a club goes after them.

McSeal, coming to a McDonalds near you soon!

[QUOTE=Native Hunter;43207917]Its wrong because these Seals have absolutely no chance of escape, unlike deer or most other game while have an actual chance, seals have no chance kf escapeing when a man with a club goes after them.[/QUOTE] Except that seal hunting is done with rifles, so seals have about as much of a chance of escaping as any other animal.

[QUOTE=Sir_takeslot;43207003]If they're overpopulated, people are killing them humanely and they're using the meat and pelts. I don't see what the problem is.[/QUOTE] i don't have a problem with hunting for food and resources, but hunting because of "overpopulation" never sits right with me, being part of the most overpopulated species on earth.

[QUOTE=Klammyxxl;43207962]i don't have a problem with hunting for food and resources, but hunting because of "overpopulation" never sits right with me, being part of the most overpopulated species on earth.[/QUOTE] Let's say there's an overpopulation of deers and not enough carnivores to eat them. Then the already overpopulated deers keep breeding and overpopulate some more. What do deers eat? Delicious greens in their environment. But because there is so much deers, they keep more than the nature can replace these fucking delicious greens, and the ultra fucking delicious greens just disappears. Now the entire population is in trouble because the super mega fucking delicious greens are all gone. That's a problem, hunters fix them.

Seals are massive fat fucks that eat too much. They are only fluffy for like a year and then they become massive lobs of flubber Basically they are so fat that if we don't kill them they can break the food chain and the laws of population control

Alot of the folk over here do seal hunting every once and awhile and stick to their own tradition as their ancestors did. It ain't bad; it's how people survived back in the day and if you didn't kill any seal, you wouldn't be able to feed your family nor yourself. People seriously need to look on the other side instead of screaming "HOLY SHIT THAT SEAL IS SO CUTE STOP KILLING THEM NOW!" I've also heard that whacking them over the head is illegal (if they're alive) and that you must shoot them with a rifle instead. Whacking for double tap is another story. I might be wrong.

I could go for some seal.