seals
Many people love seals. They are cute, curious; they are many things. They also face a host of problems like polar bears hunting them or climate change and due to overfishing; they hardly have any food left. Harp seals are at risk due to overhunting. And I’m gonna expose some pretty disturbing things, about what happens to many seals, and some people will deny the truth and say what I’m saying is inaccurate because they don’t want the truth to be exposed about what happens to thousands of seals every year. I’m gonna tell you about the ruthless killing of seals.
Let’s get the number straight. About half a million seals are killed each year and the major reason for that is that people want to wear seal skin because it’s soft, that is literally the most cruel and lame reason for killing innocent seals. And many seals killed are around 3 months old only, they never reach adulthood, this is just unacceptable to me. In addition, how they are killed is very disturbing. Seal hunters can choose a variety of weapons to kill seals like wooden clubs, hakapiks ( large ice pick–like clubs), and guns. They are very painfully killed and they suffer a slow death, it is truly horrifying.
Seal hunting is currently practiced in nine countries: the United States (above the Arctic Circle in Alaska), Canada, Namibia, Denmark (in self-governing Greenland only), Iceland, Norway, Russia, Finland, and Sweden. And do you notice the common pattern in all these countries, they are all suitable for seal life. And those countries take advantage of that. Also, it’s important to note that the primary target of seal hunting is the Harp seals. There are only 7.6 million Harp seals left in the world, this has been due to intense hunting of seals, seals are mostly hunted for their skin because it is warm and soft. These brutal activities need to stop immediately.
While solving such a problem may seem daunting, it’s important to keep an open mind and use various solutions to safeguard seals. For example, the countries still conducting seal hunting can replace it with various other economic alternatives that safeguard animal rights, for example, eco-tourists like watching seals generate more money for the economy than hunting seals. And the governments of those countries can assist the former seal hunters financially as they ban seal hunting and help the former hunters find other jobs that ensure their financial security while safeguarding animal rights. There are many solutions and the countries that still conduct seal hunting can choose the best solution to ban seal hunting according to their needs and to replace seal hunting with economic alternatives that generate more money. I hope one day all countries will ban seal hunting and we can live in a more just and prosperous world for all the inhabitants of Earth.
