From: frodek@forit.forut.no (Frode Kileng)
Newsgroups: alt.save.the.earth
Subject: Re: seal hunters and green peace
Date: 23 Aug 92 14:53:28 GMT
Reply-To: frode.kileng@tf.tele.no
Organization: Norwegian Telecom, Research Dep., Tromsoe, Norway

In article <1992Aug23.092528.7271@news.iastate.edu>, txdv1@isuvax.iastate.edu (Angela KAY Rolling) writes:
    for those of you who do not question what green peace puts forth here is 
    some valuable information and miner thought leaps that you have not made.
    
    green peace saposidly filmed seel hunters in action. the film shows them
    bludgining the seals to death.

The seals was and is still not bludged to death.  The hunters use something
thats called a 'hakkapikk' in norwegian.  Thats a club with a nail on the end.
The seals are killed immediatly when the nail on the club is 'bludget' into
the brain of the seal.

BTW. it was also proven that one of theese films was arranged by Greenpeace
(killing seals just to get it taped...)
    
    1:bludgining is a messy way to kill somthing-a lot of blood is spred about

Yes a seal contains much blood.  The combination of red blood and white ice 
makes a special effect on people, a combination that the PR people at 
Greenpeace have learned to use.  (You see, you will have the same effect 
if you take a cow to Arctic and kill it there....)

    2:blood on any thing creates a stain that ethere ruens the iobject or 
    drasticly reduces the value.

    3:furs are almost allways ruened by blood stains.
    conclusion->the pelts of seals who have been bludgebed to death are horably
    stained and thusly ruined for any practical use. killing seals by bludgining
    is incredably counter productive.

The nail on the club make a small hole in the seals head.  The hole is no problem
for the preperation of the skin and it's easy to wash the blood off the skin.  
So no 'object' is ruined.

    ??*also,why whould hunters alow green peace to tape them any way?????
    
Yes, it makes one wonder.  Besides from the films arranged by Greenpeace 
itself the reason may be :
	1. The hunters is barbaric and loves to show the world all the
	   nasty things they can do to cute baby seals.
	2. They have nothing to hide because their methods is clean.

    seal hunters kill the seal by herding them into a corral and shouting them
    with a dart contaning uthinnasha-the same thing that is given to pets when
    it is nessasary to put them to sleep.
    
This looks like one of the usual statements from Greenpeace about norwegian
seal hunting.  Hey, we barbaric norwegians eat the seal-meat, why should we
poison it ?

    ELF-KIN

Have you ever heard about the ecological disastre the years after
norway stopped the seal hunting ?  This time Greenpeace was absence. 
The seal population in arctis growned so much that seals escaped south in hunger.  
North Norwegian coast was flooded by seals.  Some of the seals starved to death,
others ended up in fishing nets and the rest ruined the fishing industry.

What Greenpeace have forgotten is that the ecological system is complex
and that you have to look at the whole system, not just specific species.
If we stop harvesting the higher levels of this ecosystem the load of 
the lower levels will be much higher.  So as a consequence of this,
we have to reduce or stop fishing if we're stopping harvesting the
higher levels.  It's just a small problem with this.  The nothern part of
Norway is completely dependent of the fishing industry.  

I'm not a biologist but the last norwegian member of the 
board of Greenpeace Norway, a professor in biology, backed out because
of Greenpeace's lack of credibility in ecological questions.

What I really hate Greenpeace for is that I've not been able to get
some whale-meat this year.  Their anti norwegian scientific hunting 
program campaign made a huge demand on the meat.  I tried to get me some 
whale and seal meat saturday when the 'the artic sea days' was arranged in 
Tromsoe, but all the meat was gone ....


Regards 


Frode Kileng
One of the barbaric norwegian whale and seal eaters
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