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Article: Isn't it time to stop killing baby seals?: ; Oh, Canada; follow the U.S. and the Russians
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- April 16, 2009
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WASHINGTON - It isn't every day that one's very own hakapik
arrives in the mail.
It is probably reasonable to assume that I'm the only person on
my block to be the un-proud possessor of the aptly named bludgeoning
and hacking instrument used to slaughter baby seals. 'Tis the
season.
April 15 may be tax and tea-party day in the U.S., but it was
baby-seal death day in Canada. Although the season began March 23
(19,411 down), the largest phase was to begin Wednesday, during
which sealers will destroy and skin another couple hundred thousand
seals, most between 25 days and three months old.
It's a living. I guess.
Like most, I've known about the baby seal hunts for decades and
have averted my ...