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Lest you think anything in this world is cut and dried, check out Alan Doyle's March 2 blog post about the seal hunts.

I don't know much about the seal hunts beyond what I read from organizations like the Human Society and PETA, so this gave me a different perspective.

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[dangerpudding.livejournal.com]

*nod*

There is a balance to be hit, and sadly a lot of the activist orgs don't even look for it, much less hit it.

(If those of us inside can't see the problems, they'll never get fixed. Though - I'd never work with or for PETA, for a lot of reasons. There is a reason I put my time and energy into the orgs I put it into.)

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

I avoid PETA, too.

Me, I want to see the seals left for the polar bears and the people who need to eat the meat, but yeah, the people in tiny northern towns have to buy petroleum products somewhere, with cash that comes from somewhere, no? And I'm not ethically against killing wild animals more than I am killing "domesticated" animals, and sometimes I'm more okay with killing something that's been allowed some semblance of a life than something that's been locked up, fed for the slaughter. But I'm against killing baby animals that haven't even procreated just so we can have snowy white furs, and I'm glad we're not doing that anymore.

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

(Or rather, I hope Alan's right that we're not doing that anymore.)