Seal Hunting In Canada Essay

If there is a new law that enforces every child to be killed within its first three months for industrial purposes, it will not seem realistic but in Canada, it is a current event. It may not be happening to humans, but it is a recurring issue for seals in Canada. In the recent years, seal hunting has become a controversial matter for Canadians, but the death of the seals is not a major concern to the government because what matters most to them is the revenue they profit from the production and trade of the seal products. However, seal hunting should be prohibited in Canada because baby seals are impetuously being killed, negatively impacting employment opportunities and traditions of the Inuit, and millions of taxpayers’ money is being wasted inconsiderably by the commercial seal hunting industry and for fighting the ban of seal hunt.

A study in 2007 by an international panel of veterinary and zoology experts showed that 66% of seal hunting cases were either, the Canadian seal hunters left the seals to suffer for long periods of time or they failed to ensure if the seals were dead before clubbing or shooting them. Another study in 2007 showed that 15% of the seal hunts observed by footage were killed in a mannerly way, but what is considered to be “mannerly” slaughter. Even though animal cruelty is a major problem itself, the methods by which the seals are being killed is even more atrocious. The process used to kill the seals was to club or shoot them and then let them bleed out or the seals were being skinned alive. Furthermore, 95% of seals killed in Canada for commercial seal hunting were normally between the ages of twelve days to three and a half months. During the spring, hunters took their boats and attempted to ...

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...ls, it does not only affect the size of seal population but also it affects the Inuit people because it decreases the amount of seal oil and seal pelts being produced, and it also causes species that depend on baby seals to have a loss in their diet too. The seal population may not seem like it is diminishing however at this rate, the baby seals are faced with the possibility of becoming extinct. If the seal hunt was to continue at this frequency and with global warming also playing a major role into the death of seals as ice glaciers are melting, the population of seals can become extinct within the next few decades. Each year, there are hundreds of thousands of baby seals killed by the Canadian government and even though, the government is making profit from this industry, they failed to consider how is poses a significant long-term threat to their whole specie.