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Mickey Z
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Wednesday, March 30, 2005
Save the seals action alert...and some NCAA news
Associated Press says: Thousands of sealers armed with clubs, rifles, and spears headed for the ice floes off eastern Canada yesterday for the world’s largest seal hunt, one expected to bring poor coastal communities millions of dollars but condemned by animal rights activists as barbaric. The harp seal hunt, the target of protests since the 1960s, begins about two weeks after the seal pups are born and before their fur changes from white to gray. Animal rights activists say the pups are clubbed to death and often skinned alive, but sealers and government officials who monitor the hunt insist the pups die instantly, under strict guidelines. ‘’It’s just horrific out there. There is blood all across the ice and seal carcasses as far as the eye can see,” Rebecca Aldworth of The Humane Society of the United States said yesterday. ‘’We’ve seen seals that were moving around and breathing, that have been left in these piles, some left conscious and crawling.”
To take action, please click here:
http://www.ifaw.org/ifaw/general/default.aspx?oid=21446
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Also, just in case no one has noticed, I posted my NCAA men’s Final Four picks a while back and got 3 out of 4 correct (I had Duke instead of Michigan State). I also picked Tennessee on the women’s side and they’re in the Final Four...looking strong.
And, more importantly, in case you missed this on Counterpunch, here’s a reason to root against Illinois:
http://www.counterpunch.com/boyle03302005.html
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