Is it hypocritical that Japan and Canada have the best living standard yet they hunt innocent animals?

why pick out 2 countries? don't americans hunt everything they can get a gun aimed at? whats the difference between killing a seal and killing a deer or a kangaroo? personally i think ALL hunting should stop but you are being very ignorant just picking 2 countries

I appreciate your concern, but there are two sides to every question and as far as the Canadian portion is concerned, you are only looking at one. The seal hunt is regulated and controlled. It provides a livelihood for the Inuit people. It's all very well to say they can get other jobs - but when you live in an arctic land, there aren't a lot of other jobs. There isn't any agriculture, there isn't any forestry. There isn't any manufacturing - and these people have families to feed. As long as the hunt is controlled, it's no more cruel than raising beef cattle and killing them, or raising chickens and killing them. The life of a seal is no more precious than the life of a chicken or a cow, and if you eat meat al all, then objecting to the seal hunt is the height of hypocrisy.

the seal hunt in Canada is more humane than the slaughter houses for beef, pork, chicken etc anywhere in the world, the deer hunts in the US are more inhumane, they leave deer wounded and dying,, americans have ranches where they actually hunt buffalo from helicopters...what's more inhumane than that ? the seal hunt is an inuit tradition and is necessary to control the seal population to maintain the fish stocks, the animals don't suffer, the media is sensationalizing it.

Are you also offended by the mass killings of fish, cows, pigs and chickens? Or just he cute ones with good PR people?

Sad truth is animals have to be hunted. If we all become vegetarians and no animals are killed we are all competing for the same food supply, which will eventually run out when the animal population explodes. However, it should not be done in a cruel fashion.

You don't seem to know much about the seal hunt. I'm against it (as are most Canadians) but there's more to it than the way you're describing it. All nations permit hunting of perfectly innocent animals. Some even really promote it. I agree that Japan (and Norway) seem to be behaving rather unethical, when it comes to fishing and whaling. But I don't know enough PERSONALLY to make any damning condemnations. I'd have to really work in that field, and go out and see what's really going on before I'd form a definitive opinion. I would never, ever, ever, ever base my opinions on what I've read on the Internet or in the "news" media (or, as I call it, infotainment). I may use information written by others as a starting point for credible, scientific, fact-based, objective research. But, personally, I simply don't form strong opinions in any area in which I have no personal expertise. (And I wish more people felt that way, themselves.) As a (mostly) vegan individual, I find there are a lot of people who are openly hypocritical about their own animal abuse. You don't get to have it both ways. You can't say this animal abuse is bad while wearing leather shoes, eating eggs or ice cream, etc. Ironically, I'm vegan and I'm not against hunting, per se. I actually think it is more hypocritical to buy sanitized animal products from stores, knowing you don't have what it takes to do the deed yourself, than to go out and hunt, kill, and eat an animal. I'm (mostly) vegan. I'm not against eating meat. That's just nature. I'm against animal cruelty. And factory farms are some of the worst animal abusers around. So I choose to do everything I can not to support people who abuse animals, which means not buying animal products from farmed animals. EDIT: Just for the record, when the first Europeans arrived off the coast of Canada, there were ample seal populations and so much fish they reportedly slowed the progress of the boats. Gee...it seems that before humans mucked-up the natural order of things, there were more fish than could be imagined. So, I guess that means that human overfishing is really the cause of the loss in fish stocks, huh? Seals and fish lived harmoniously before people screwed it up.

You have a fictional, synthetic morality system. Animals also hunt animals, if you haven't noticed. Some animals, viruses, etc. hunt and destroy us. Ever see a killer whale hunt its prey? It's brutal! Humanity since the beginning has hunted and consumed animals. It is our very nature. Today's generation fancies itself more sophisticated than we were in the past, and some people have anthropomorphizing animals and imagined that they are almost human. They are animals, be it a cockroach, a whale, a fruit fly, whatever. It is NOT immoral to kill them. I do believe it is very wrong to hunt an animal into extinction, but it's not wrong to eat meat. It's our nature. You'll have just as much luck asking people to stop singing, complaining, etc. And for your information, you are one of the very small percentage of humanity who lives in the developed world. No matter what you do to save your chickens, cows, and livestock, the majority of the human population which lives every day on the brink of poverty needs those to survive, and tofu just doesn't cut it for daily sustenance. If your crusade to save the livestock is successful in your country, it won't amount to a hill of beans.

Who are "they"? 4000 sealers in Newfoundland do not speak for me.

japanese whaling is much older then us history. domesicated animals are innocent too. if your opnion is applied to entire human being , we all become vegiterian.