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Article: Activists Decry Growth Of Canadian Seal Hunt; High Quota, 'Cruelty' and Lax Oversight Cited
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- April 18, 2004
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The film image shows a hulking seal hunter walking across the ice
in pursuit of a baby seal as it wobbles to escape. The hunter stomps
on the seal's tail, raises his hakapik -- a spiked club -- and bangs
the baby seal on the head, once, twice, until the animal lies still.
The hunter turns the club, hooks the seal's silvery head and drags it
away, leaving a line of bright red blood in the snow.
The camera cuts to a seal appearing to gasp for air, blood running
from its nose as it lies on an ice floe. Not far away, a sealer
sharpens his knife blade. The seal seems to be thrashing as its fur
is sliced from its torso. Behind it, a pile of carcasses rises,
bloodied seals without their fur, black ...