make it pvp event so they canbe takin out blizzard !!!!

im sorry, i can hear you over the sound of me eating tasty sea kittens...

Why can't we play horde side and help skin some seals?
Skinning isn't hard to level, but then... don't all good statements need 2 sides?

I don't know how much I like Blizzard letting them host such an event. The blizzard-specific stuff like DEHTA and Nessingwary are one thing, but I'd much prefer keeping my mmo in my mmo and my PETA in my PETA.

They are not two great tastes that taste great together.

PETA should just go sit down and get their facts straight for just once in their veggie lives.

Yes, sealers are going to be killing 338,200 seals this year around Newfoundland, Cape Cod, Labrador, and places North or Iqaalut and Nuunavut. Out of a booming population of close to 2 MILLION, this number is rather small. This hunt is to control the population and increase the fishing stocks for the fishermen in the area who need to eek out a living for their families. It's not like sealers are going to wipe out the harp seals or leopard seals in one hunt. Kind of hard to do that.

The meat does not go to waste either. At the end of each kill day, when the seals are skinned, the meat is auctioned off to the native residents of the area who consider seal meat a delicacy. Has hell of a lot more protein in it than beef.

And no, the sealers are not going to kill white coats. The killing of any seal younger than 6 months is strictly prohibited. Anyone caught in the possession of a white coat pelt or a dead white coat is heavily fined ($5,000 US and up) and their license is revoked FOR LIFE. Seeing as this is the only other source of income aside from fishing (which sucks these days in terms of money) no one in their right mind would dare take the risk. After 6 months the white coat takes on the coloring of the adults and is weaned from Mom's milk. They are on their own at this point.

It is also illegal to approach or touch white coats. The McCartneys found this out first hand when, last year I believe, they came to Canada to protest the hunt and were slapped with a fine of $50,000 US each for that picture they had taken with a white coat.

I find it highly laughable that Europe would turn it's back on Canada's seal hunt when they were and are the biggest purchaser of seal products in the world.

PETA is just a bunch of tree-hugging, bean curd eating idiots who would rather pervert the truth to their cause than actually sit down and fact the cold hard facts. It's hypocritical of them to say all this about the seal hunt when their star-power members wear fur and leather coats and leather boots while trying to make us swallow their veggie tripe.

Sorry if I sound annoyed, but I am. I am Canadian and I support the hunt for the simple reason that it gives much needed jobs and income to people who otherwise would have none since the depleation of the fishing stocks.

Besides, killer whales and polar bears kill a lot more of the seals that the sealers do. What's PETA going to do about them?

Ehm, correct me if I'm wrong, but...

How is breeding cows, using their milk for all sorts of food and drinks, using their hide for all sorts of leather and slaughtering them for their meat (which I enjoy eating) the same as clubbing a seal and then ONLY USING THE FUR as a resource? Excuses me? I do agree that PETA-members are strange in the head and their methods are sometimes abominable, but come on! Do all the people who think clubbing seals is 'kinda ok' also think that breeding other animals only to slaughter them for their fur is 'kinda ok' too? And I really hate the "Oh, but we HAVE TO kill the seals, otherwise they'll eat all the fish"-attitude. Seals have been living in their territories for far longer than we humans are living there and hey, guess what? They never ate so much fish that it went extinct! That's the only kind of BS in this whole story, because if WE HUMANS hadn't interfered in the natural cycle of life of both seals, their prey AND their predators, they would all still be living in 'harmony' (or balance, so you will). So it's our fault that there are too many seals, because we either killed their predators by hunting them or messing up the environment - polar bears ring a bell? (and I have to say: where are the numbers on the seal population actually being too large?) and that gives US the RIGHT to club, yes, TO CLUB seals to death FOR THEIR FUR? Isn't there anyone here who sees the MAJOR LOGICAL FAULT in that kind of thinking?

And before I get all sorts of flames thrown my way... What have YOU done to save innocent beings (whether they be people or animals) in the past? It's so very easy to look down upon people who are trying to make difference - strange methods or not - when you never do anything remotely like it. I would never in my life have thought to read people actually condoning the slaughter of animals, but here I am, unfortunately.

The worst part is that people like Paul McCartney, Brigitte Bardot, and the looneys in PETA CONTINUE to circulate completely false information about the seal hunt: that baby seals are killed. They may not SAY that baby seals are being killed, but they continuously use white-coat babies in their advertisements. Sure the babies are far cuter than the adults... BUT, it is illegal to kill the baby seals! ONLY adults are killed during the brief once-a-year seal hunt.

And I'd MUCH rather the seal population were controlled than have overpopulation of these fish-eating sea mammals. The former is a necessary evil, if you will. The latter would be a terrible disaster for north-Atlantic fish populations.

I support the motion that as many people roll horde DKs on that server to attack the PETA members!

People: start now! you have two days to get through the DK starter area and get a few levels of insurance for HF.

Maybe they should venture into Borean Tundra and see the NPC's that basically make fun of them. I doubt there are very many people who respect them. I am against animal cruelty etc but I don't want to drink human breast milk (which at one point they suggested), and I put human life up alot higher then any animal out there. They take there beliefs way too far.

This.

Nothing more than a bunch of pathetic loons.

Love how in the video they try and block a valid point with the "You're straying away from the topic" card. Now if you ask me, this is just pure BS to the nth degree here.


Even on WoW this is pretty humane. It's not like blood comes gushing from them from a Hunter's bow and arrow. It's not like warriors cut a seal in half, it makes a dying noise and falls over and lays there with a gray name showing it is defeated. It'll later respawn.

IRL it isn't like Canada is doing this to destroy the seal population this is controlled and regulated. When you think about it, PETA is just a ******** organization trying to get nothing more than their way because they want to impede society.

Well if the 4 horde are played by PETA to just die.. hopefully a large portion of horde show up to destroy peta and the alliance leave them alone.

I'm sure the 4 flagged seal killers will be enthusiastically ganked, most likely putting up only token resistance, in some twisted way saying murder is ok if it's for what you consider a righteous cause. Not at all surprising.