928...Bridget Bardot Speaks

For those of you who are not history buffs the name Bridget Bardot may not resonate.

She was a film star back in the olden days, starting her career around the same time Gordie Howe did and for the past 3 decades she has been an animal rights activist, specifically picking on the Newfoundlanders who harvest less than 60,000 seals a year.

CBC News reports that this year's master plan from People For The Ethical Treatment of Animals poster person Ms. Bardot to stop the seal trade is to organize a boycott of Canadian maple syrup.

I know, makes no sense.

According to Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Canada produces about 85 per cent of the world's maple syrup, the rest presumably is from Vermont and New England. We schlep more than $213 million of the liquid gold to almost 45 different countries. I love that, almost 45 different countries---I presume we sell it to 44 different countries.

If the foreign markets dry up they could just sell the excess to my mom; I swear, she must drink the stuff.

Ms. Bardot, who is 75 but, due to the fact that she never wore sunblock looks closer to 175 than 75, was a sex symbol and actress and unbelievably hot, appearing in 16 films.

She is not just an animal rights activist showcased by PETA, oh no. She is also a convicted racist in her homeland of France.

Five times.

Think about that when you are putting syrup on everything tomorrow morning.

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582...EU Approves Seal Product Ban

I have said it before and I will say it again.

Let's ban the seal hunt and pay everyone in the industry a nice big chunk of change to retire from the bidness.

Then the World Wild Life Federation and People For The Ethical Treatment of Animals can move on to some other, loftier issue.

I still wonder why they, WWF, PETA, Bridgette Bardot, are so vexed by the seal hunt, seals being killed by the thousands, yet have no problems with lambs, who are killed by the tens of millions. Reference Post 17o for more information.

Lambs have souls too. Plus they are cuter.

My little rant comes on the heels of a Canadian Press report that the European Community, over the objections of member states Denmark and Romania, has decided that they will ban seal products from the EU.

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173...Wrong Again, I Am

Post 170 I stated that the World Wildlife Federation was against the seal hunt.

As John pointed out in his comment, my bad.

http://www.panda.org/faq/response.cfm?hdnQuestionId=11320030954082

Is the link to the WWF's balanced approach to the seal hunt.

Nothing about lambs though.

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170...WhySeals?Instead of Lambs?Here is why.

Ever wondered why they, they being the World Wildlife Federation, Bridget Bardot, People For The Ethical Treatment of Animals, Paul McCartney and on and on have such a hardon re the seal harvest? Especially considering that when you break it down, the 57,000 seal seal harvest is minute when it is compared to the slaughter of 20 million plus cuddly, cute and playful New Zealand spring lambs.

No contest in the cuteness department between baby seals and lambs, lambs win hands down, so why doesn't the WWF, PETA et. al. freak out on the farmers of New Zealand?

I will tell you why, because the true target, the hunters, are easy. The hunters of seals are Inuit [non Edmonton Eskimos] and rural Newfoundlanders. Outsiders. Way, way, way outsiders. The men who silence the lambs in New Zealand are involved in the biggest export business the Kiwi's operate. Insiders. Way, way, way insiders.

Take on big agri business and there is a price to be paid. Take on a bunch of dudes trying to make a few, as in few dollars, e=z.

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166...Why Seals?

Why are they, they being the World Wildlife Federation, Bridget Bardot, People For The Ethical Treatment of Animals, Paul McCartney and on and on so over the moon about seals?

The seal industry is minute compared to the slaughter of lambs and other cute animals that we like to eat and make into gloves.

Why aren't they, the above they, storming the shores of New Zealand to protest the slaughter of the lambs every year, a slaughter that is exponentially higher in numbers [26.4 million lambs were offed in 2008 according to Meat & Wool New Zealand; on its website The Humane Society of the United States says 57,622 seals were killed, no time frame] than the seal harvest?

Just a question.

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