Cold War Heats Up

The sealing protest has taken a dangerous turn, as tempers flared between protestors and hunters on the first day of the seal hunt. Angry hunters have hurled bloody seal guts at animal rights activists who came too close. Thus marks the start of a potentially dangerous escalation, as activists claim that they will next attempt to spoon with the hunters, and hunters are threatening to throw entire walruses at the protestors.

In other news: much of the wind has been taken out of seal hunt protestor and former-silver screen sex symbol (shudder) Brigitte Bardot's sails as it was revealed that she is, in fact, a crazy right-wing rascist.

The hunt has prompted calls from the McCartneys and Bardot for a global boycott of Canadian seafood products. Unfortunately for the Humane Society, less than 21% of the restaurants that the Humane Society claims is boycotting Canadian seafood is actually doing so. 31% of the restaurants on the list continue to sell seafood, and 45% have never served Canadian seafood.

I'm not a particularly large fan of organizations that twist their facts in order to make a point, and I think that's what's going on in this case. When I think of the Humane Society, I think of household pets being rescued from cruel and abusive households, and basic guidelines governing suffering for animals that will eventually make their way to the shelves in a grocery store. The Humane Society is putting a bad face on animal rights activism, just so they can make some extra money.

For shame, Humane Society. Amnesty International doesn't get to invent human rights violations, so you don't get to invent facts to support your stories, either.