Seal Clubbing does more harm than good

Well thank you for being a jerk.... 1. By law, you have to keep clubbing the seal in the forehead until you know for sure that it's dead. Sealers are supposed to "palpate" a pup's skull after they've clubbed it, to feel the caved-in bone beneath the skin and blubber. Or they can perform the "blink reflex" test, which consists of touching the seal's eyeball—if it blinks, you've got to club it again. (Few sealers actually perform these tests, though; some say they can 'feel' the skull collapse as they make contact with their clubs.) This proves that hunters most of the time don't even know if the seal is dead! The seal could be skinned alive! How would that feel? As I have stated before 79% of hunters don't check if the seal is dead before skinning it and 42% of cases there was not enough evidence that the seal was dead. Imagine how it would feel to be skinned alive? Imagine yourself seeing this gruesome sight and you're feeling all that pain. Seals probably go through this every day. 2. First of all, if you wanted to you could buy a seal cub purse in London or Paris or anyother major European city. You cannot deny that seal cubs are being slaughtered, if you want some concrete evidence here: (this is a little graphic, so don't look if you don't like seeing dead animals.) http://www.canadiantouristboard.com... tell me that is not real (heres the souce if you need it...) http://www.canadiantouristboard.com... 3. I meant sources. I know what a source and an argument are and they are different. I meant sources. *sighs* 4. Ok thank you... but as we have seen, people clearly take this issue as a game, and turn it into one, as my opponent's emo buddy has done. Conclusion: My opponent has stated NO main points and has only provided rebuttal to my points. My opponent has yet to state why seal clubbing does more good than harm. And finally he has not stated any sources at all. By the way, the sources I stated are relevant... they're about seal clubbing. Let me restate my points (copied from first round): 1. Cruelty to animals According to recent studies done by the Canadian Veterinary Medical Association (CVMA), the hakapik, when used properly, kills the animal quickly and painlessly. However, the aforementioned CVMA report also urges "continued attention to this hunt" due to nine types of "violations and abuses." The Royal Commission on Seals and the Sealing Industry in Canada, also known as the Malouf Commission, claims that properly performed clubbing is at least as humane as the methods used in commercial slaughterhouses, and according to the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO), these studies "have consistently proven that the club or hakapik is an efficient tool designed to kill the animal quickly and humanely." Another study, conducted by the IFAW, an anti-sealing group, disputes these findings, however, detailing "42% of cases where there was not enough evidence of cranial injury to guarantee unconsciousness at the time of skinning, and 79% of cases where sealers did not check to ensure that the seals were dead prior to skinning them." 2. Kills young pups despite Canada's ban on the commercial hunting of suckling pups. The HSUS explains this by saying that images of the legally hunted "ragged jackets" are nearly indistinguishable from those of whitecoats. Also, they state that according to official DFO kill reports, 97% percent of the estimated million harp seals killed in the last four years have been under three months old, and the majority of these are less than one month old. For all these reasons, there is no doubt that PRO has won this debate. -=VOTE PRO=-