AR-News: (CA)I stand with the seal hunters

[Animalconcerns]

[opinion from Globe and Mail]

My time at the Newfoundland seal hunt - the last great gasp of that era -
is admittedly coloured. I fell in love with those the late Irish Times
columnist Flann O'Brien might have called The Plain People of the Rock.
...
I wondered what the ordinary reader would make of the story, or more
important, take from it. Would the animal-rights folks, and a protest
movement still in its infancy, be given a boost? Would a celebrity emerge
as the new Brigitte Bardot and pose, as she once did, cuddling up to a pup?

Two decades or so ago, in the contest between the welfare of
Newfoundlanders versus the welfare of seals, I never had any difficulty
picking sides, and still don't. It surprises me, because I am usually
sentimental about animals. But I am more sentimental, I suppose, about my
fellow Canadians, and their efforts to find honourable work in that
hard-luck, hardscrabble part of the country.

full story:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040410/COBLATCH10/TPComment/Columnists

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