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Edwin Culling
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Barry Culling
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Portfolio Clean Out - Your Vote Counts
by Craig GoldsmithI’m looking for nominations of what to cull out of my portfolio, I have my eye on a fair bit of my earlier work which well for me isn’t u…
I’m looking for nominations of what to cull out of my portfolio, I have my eye on a fair bit of my earlier work which well for me isn’t up to scratch. My difficult is I find myself to be my toughest critic so I’d like to open this up to anyone that wants to name any images they think don’t belong, I’ll compare that to my own list and then let the culling begin. I currently have 75 works for sale and I don’t know that feels like too much so I’m looking to cullt 10-25 at a guess, that said I don’t want to be like a overzealous gardener and prun it back to hard. So feel free to jump in and nominate any number of shots to go up onto the chopping block, if a image has already been nominated still list it as more votes will spell doom for the image in question.
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Every year sealers bludgeon seals with clubs and “hakapiks” (clubs with a metal hook on the end), drag conscious seals across the ice floes with boat hooks, and toss dead and dying animals into heaps and leave their carcasses to rot because there is no market for their meat. Seals are also shot, but bludgeoning is preferred, because pelt buyers deduct money for every bullet hole in a seal’s skin. Veterinarians who studied a past hunt concluded that the hunters failed to comply with Canada’s basic animal welfare standards and that 42 percent of the seals appeared to have been skinned alive. Despite Canada’s ‘new and improved’ methods being implemented this year, sealers are still slaughtering these pups in the same way they have for previous years. It’s unconscionable. For more information, please visit any of the following websites for first-hand accounts and ways you can help save the seals. Sea Shepherd HSUS Canadian Seal Hunt Anti-Sealing Coalition This project, S.O.S. (Save Our Seals) is something our group has been working on for several weeks now. All proceeds from sales will be donated to Sea Shepherd. If you would like to get more involved, please join us here on Red Bubble in the Voices for Animals group. The more supporters we have, the louder our collective voice will be!! Thank you to the following Voices for Animals artists that made this project possible: Angela F. / Bethwyn Mills / Carmen Mandel-Cesareo / Chris Coetzee / Crockpot Productions / Cynthia Adams / Danae Leach / Dawn Davies / dimarie / dropSoul / Eric Allen / Eyal Nahmias / hahpistuff / Jocelyn Hyers / Leah Jaarveth / lexa dedman / Lloyd’s Journey / Matt Tworkowski / Patricia Anne McCarty / pinkyjain / Rhonda L. Hall / Sarah Bentvizen / Tom Godfrey / Tommy Jo / yanmos
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A surreal thought on what could happen if the ‘roos ruled.
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Every year sealers bludgeon seals with clubs and “hakapiks” (clubs with a metal hook on the end), drag conscious seals across the ice floes with boat hooks, and toss dead and dying animals into heaps and leave their carcasses to rot because there is no market for their meat. Seals are also shot, but bludgeoning is preferred, because pelt buyers deduct money for every bullet hole in a seal’s skin. Veterinarians who studied a past hunt concluded that the hunters failed to comply with Canada’s basic animal welfare standards and that 42 percent of the seals appeared to have been skinned alive. Despite Canada’s ‘new and improved’ methods being implemented this year, sealers are still slaughtering these pups in the same way they have for previous years. It’s unconscionable. For more information, please visit any of the following websites for first-hand accounts and ways you can help save the seals. Sea Shepherd HSUS Canadian Seal Hunt Anti-Sealing Coalition This project, S.O.S. (Save Our Seals) is something our group has been working on for several weeks now. All proceeds from sales will be donated to Sea Shepherd. If you would like to get more involved, please join us here on Red Bubble in the Voices for Animals group. The more supporters we have, the louder our collective voice will be!! Thank you to the following Voices for Animals artists that made this project possible: Angela F. / Bethwyn Mills / Carmen Mandel-Cesareo / Chris Coetzee / Crockpot Productions / Cynthia Adams / Danae Leach / Dawn Davies / dimarie / dropSoul / Eric Allen / Eyal Nahmias / hahpistuff / Jocelyn Hyers / Leah Jaarveth / lexa dedman / Lloyd’s Journey / Matt Tworkowski / Patricia Anne McCarty / pinkyjain / Rhonda L. Hall / Sarah Bentvizen / Tom Godfrey / Tommy Jo / yanmos
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Every year sealers bludgeon seals with clubs and “hakapiks” (clubs with a metal hook on the end), drag conscious seals across the ice floes with boat hooks, and toss dead and dying animals into heaps and leave their carcasses to rot because there is no market for their meat. Seals are also shot, but bludgeoning is preferred, because pelt buyers deduct money for every bullet hole in a seal’s skin. Veterinarians who studied a past hunt concluded that the hunters failed to comply with Canada’s basic animal welfare standards and that 42 percent of the seals appeared to have been skinned alive. Despite Canada’s ‘new and improved’ methods being implemented this year, sealers are still slaughtering these pups in the same way they have for previous years. It’s unconscionable. For more information, please visit any of the following websites for first-hand accounts and ways you can help save the seals. Sea Shepherd HSUS Canadian Seal Hunt Anti-Sealing Coalition This project, S.O.S. (Save Our Seals) is something our group has been working on for several weeks now. All proceeds from sales will be donated to Sea Shepherd. If you would like to get more involved, please join us here on Red Bubble in the Voices for Animals group. The more supporters we have, the louder our collective voice will be!! Thank you to the following Voices for Animals artists that made this project possible: Angela F. / Bethwyn Mills / Carmen Mandel-Cesareo / Chris Coetzee / Crockpot Productions / Cynthia Adams / Danae Leach / Dawn Davies / dimarie / dropSoul / Eric Allen / Eyal Nahmias / hahpistuff / Jocelyn Hyers / Leah Jaarveth / lexa dedman / Lloyd’s Journey / Matt Tworkowski / Patricia Anne McCarty / pinkyjain / Rhonda L. Hall / Sarah Bentvizen / Tom Godfrey / Tommy Jo / yanmos
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If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? -Shakespeare Every year sealers bludgeon seals with clubs and “hakapiks” (clubs with a metal hook on the end), drag conscious seals across the ice floes with boat hooks, and toss dead and dying animals into heaps and leave their carcasses to rot because there is no market for their meat. Seals are also shot, but bludgeoning is preferred, because pelt buyers deduct money for every bullet hole in a seal’s skin. Veterinarians who studied a past hunt concluded that the hunters failed to comply with Canada’s basic animal welfare standards and that 42 percent of the seals appeared to have been skinned alive. Despite Canada’s ‘new and improved’ methods being implemented this year, sealers are still slaughtering these pups in the same way they have for previous years. It’s unconscionable. For more information, please visit any of the following websites for first-hand accounts and ways you can help save the seals. Sea Shepherd HSUS Canadian Seal Hunt Anti-Sealing Coalition If you would like to get more involved, please join us here on Red Bubble in the Voices for Animals group. The more supporters we have, the louder our collective voice will be!! All proceeds will be donated to Sea Shepherd.
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If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? -Shakespeare Every year sealers bludgeon seals with clubs and “hakapiks” (clubs with a metal hook on the end), drag conscious seals across the ice floes with boat hooks, and toss dead and dying animals into heaps and leave their carcasses to rot because there is no market for their meat. Seals are also shot, but bludgeoning is preferred, because pelt buyers deduct money for every bullet hole in a seal’s skin. Veterinarians who studied a past hunt concluded that the hunters failed to comply with Canada’s basic animal welfare standards and that 42 percent of the seals appeared to have been skinned alive. Despite Canada’s ‘new and improved’ methods being implemented this year, sealers are still slaughtering these pups in the same way they have for previous years. It’s unconscionable. For more information, please visit any of the following websites for first-hand accounts and ways you can help save the seals. Sea Shepherd HSUS Canadian Seal Hunt Anti-Sealing Coalition If you would like to get more involved, please join us here on Red Bubble in the Voices for Animals group. The more supporters we have, the louder our collective voice will be!! All proceeds will be donated to Sea Shepherd.
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The Cruelty of Aerial Culling
by Estelle O'BrienI live in a narrow valley surrounded by beautiful mountains with rocky escarpments and rugged steep slopes. I climbed half way up there o…
I live in a narrow valley surrounded by beautiful mountains with rocky escarpments and rugged steep slopes. I climbed half way up there once to rescue one of my dogs who had gotten stuck on a ledge…the view was like looking down from an aeroplane. It took all of my courage and strength to climb up and I would never have done it if I didn’t love that little dog so much! Living high in the rocky mountain are three families of wild goats. They are lovely animals; intelligent, proud and nimble. They often came down from the mountain to graze in our back paddock and say hello. A year or two ago a neighbour found a kid and brought it to me to rear. I named her Millie (the Kid) and she lived in my chicken house with my chooks. She would jump up onto the roost with them at night to sleep. I soon won her confidence and tamed her and during the day she would play with me and follow me about my garden, helping me to trim the weeds. Goats are smart and funny, they love to interact and play. She was a beautiful friend for a while, she grew up sleek and strong and pure white…and one day she happily ran off with a mob of big black goats. We would catch glimpses of her sometimes high up on the mountain, a white princess among a bunch of long-haired black “bikie” goats! If we called out her name – a shout echoes around the hills- she would raise her head and give a little kick of recognition, as if remembering our kindness when she was an orphaned baby. A couple of weeks ago we had a letter from the Dept of Parks and Wildlife asking permission to shoot on our property, which we declined to give. A ranger subsequently appeared on our doorstep to try to convince us that the wild goats are a menace to society. Their argument is that there is some sort of plant that grows only up on the rugged rocky terrain on the top of our mountain and the goats are eating it. My answer to that is that the bush is so rough and rocky and rugged up there, it is only accessible by mountain climbing and helicopters -who would ever know whether a plant was or was not there? And which beaureacrat who thinks he’s God makes the decision that a plant is more important than an animal? He thought I was mad as a hatter when I told him I would tell the goats to hide- bad men were coming with guns. He thought my husband was even madder when he challenged the prevailing “wisdom” of killing animals from the air. He left without the permission he sought, and advised us that they would shoot around our boundary. The next day we heard the ominous deep ratta-tat of the helicopter as it flew over the mountain. The chopper was so loud it was almost deafening as it hovered above the trees, low enough to cause the leaves to swirl off. We only own the land half way up the mountain…the top belongs to the State Parks Authority and so they swept up and down our fenceline, pausing and hovering every time they saw goats. My horses were terrified, I ran out to their paddock to reassure them and keep them as calm as I could. Pilgrim had been galloping about in fear as the gunshots began, and both horses stood beside me with their heads over my shoulder as chopper thundered around and we heard BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG. Every time there was a rifle shot, the horses flinched in fear. I stood with them with tears running down my face as I heard each shot and thought of my dear little friends up the mountain. After about 45 minutes, their cruel work was done. I couldn’t bear to look, but Dennis had been watching them through binoculars. He saw the goats standing petrified on the rocks and saw them fall one by one, too scared to run away. He saw our little Millie lying on a rocky ledge high upon the mountain. I am crying again as I write about it…it is such a distressing thing to write about. But people should know what is done in the name of “conservation”. For hours afterwards we heard desperate bleating…some were probably injured and lying where they fell… to die a slow agonising death. It is too rough for us to climb to the top and try to help the ones who were gut shot. Even with the high powered army rifle they were using, it is impossible for the rangers to have clean shots from the air. It is so cruel. In Canberra the same week, they were culling some kangaroos, who were “over-grazing the native grasses” What rubbish- kangaroos don’t stay where there is no feed…they move on. But these kangaroos had some animal loving friends who were activists and attracted some publicity…and so the government made them tranquilize the roos before they killed them. Why do they think kangaroos can feel fear and pain… but goats can’t? Because it was done in the nation’s capital in view of the public, humane methods were used…but goats on a mountain where no-one can see what happens, is a different matter. Why is one animals life more important than anothers? Who makes these illogical decisions? I am a realist and I sometimes eat meat, so I am not against killing animals altogether…but only if it is to eat them and only if they are killed humanely. I would never buy caged chickens eggs or eat lot fed beef, both are terrible practices. But I cannot understand why so called civilized people think that aerial culling is acceptable. It is terribly cruel – they have no way of knowing how many animals they left up there injured to die slowly. It is barbaric and should be stopped.
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Every year sealers bludgeon seals with clubs and “hakapiks” (clubs with a metal hook on the end), drag conscious seals across the ice floes with boat hooks, and toss dead and dying animals into heaps and leave their carcasses to rot because there is no market for their meat. Seals are also shot, but bludgeoning is preferred, because pelt buyers deduct money for every bullet hole in a seal’s skin. Veterinarians who studied a past hunt concluded that the hunters failed to comply with Canada’s basic animal welfare standards and that 42 percent of the seals appeared to have been skinned alive. Despite Canada’s ‘new and improved’ methods being implemented this year, sealers are still slaughtering these pups in the same way they have for previous years. It’s unconscionable. For more information, please visit any of the following websites for first-hand accounts and ways you can help save the seals. Sea Shepherd HSUS Canadian Seal Hunt Anti-Sealing Coalition If you would like to get more involved, please join us here on Red Bubble in the Voices for Animals group. The more supporters we have, the louder our collective voice will be!! All proceeds will be donated to Sea Shepherd.
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Australian Culling ~ Native Flora & Fauna Vs Introduced Species
by adgrayThis was going to be a reply to aphoto4you on her work Close Together...
This was going to be a reply to aphoto4you on her work Close Together / It is a gorgeous shot and the debate ensuing was detracting from that. I wanted to clarify my understanding of the whole issue of introduced species vs native fauna & flora First I want to emphatically state – No I’m not defending needless killing … and I would completely agree with leaving nature to deal with nature. But as you should know here in Australia a mere 200 years ago whiteman introduced several species that have been allowed to reproduce in plague proportions that have wiped out habitat and native species alike and fed our own “Rodents” into their own plague proportions! / Rabbits Foxes Grass [and other weeds that were brought as pretty flowers] Cats Rats Mice camels horses cows pigs water buffalo and Cane Toads…. and definitely whiteman! Whiteman have wiped out the majority of the indigenous people [completely from Tassie] and usurped them of their land culture and lifestyle! Whiteman have also rendered many native animals extinct either for their pelts and meat or just by destroying the native habitat to cultivate their own! Our native wildlife have no defenses to the fox. Yes we have dingos [another bronze age introduced species] and Tassie had the tiger but the dingos are north of the “Dog Fence” and the foxes are south of it and the tigers are extinct thanks to whitemen! / The majority of the native animals are not suited to be victims of predators…. that is they are easy prey and by the time they naturally develop the wherewithal to become predator wise there wont be many left! The aristocracy brought Foxes in to “Hunt” .. they would hunt once a year and ignore the foxes who flourished! Foxes go for fowls no probs – and loss of said birds in the beginning was blamed on aborigines not foxes! They also go for sheep easy as pie and they will go for a sick or newborn cow ….. they are scavengers. If you had lived in the outback you would know why roos are the farmers pest! True it is not their fault but they are the scourge of the grazer. Since whiteman cleared the land and cultivated grazing pastures the roos have gone to town on the pasture and as rodents do have multiplied to deal with it! Grass is a weed in Australia and roos keep it short! Nature is dealing with the grass introduced and forgetting we also brought cows and sheep in. Roos have become plague proportions! So farmers are culling roos to allow their stock to feed…. there by feeding whiteman! And when you look at it that is also nature’s work. As for rabbits! My god! I have seen the paddocks looking like the rats after the pied piper! At dusk there are acres and acres of paddocks literally swarming with rabbits who burrow all over, eat everything on top and destroy the soil underneath so that our native flora and fauna die! You cannot eat the rabbits in the bush now they have no nutritional value and spread diseases. At best they make cheep dog-food for the farmer but even their pelt is useless. These rabbits are not bunnies but more like rats! Again they were introduced to “Feed the poor” and because there were no natural predators they flourished to plague proportions very fast and have stayed there in Australia without any way to Naturally control them! And CATS are the new scourge of the native fauna. Cats breed like rodents and whiteman allow them to roam all day and all night! They can travel for miles between coming home for meals if they’re allowed out. Cats can also live quite happilly contained to a house or a room or even an aviary! I have cats and I do not allow them to go outside because I cannot prevent them from leaving my property. We live near a sports reserve park and my cats would kill the native birds and possums there [yes we have introduced birds but our native birds are better adapted to our country and the introduced species are just surviving along side them] Whiteman has even taken cats and dumped them in the bush thinking it was a humane way of getting rid of them! Of course these cats are now flourishing wild cats feeding on our fauna and birds! Our park rangers are culling them too … fancy eating cat? And don’t start me on the Toads wiping out up north! They are destroying the top end from the Queensland sugar cane coast right through into our precious Kakadu! / Go on tell me they love their tadpoles! Every living creature family are attractive to human aesthetics of cute and cuddly when nurturing their young and in their natural habitat this is a wonderful thing, but please remember white man INTRODUCED these Foxes and Rabbits and all the others that I have mentioned and possibly more that have yet reared their ugly heads. So when you take a photo like your wonderful shot here and put it along side the same kind of photo of the lovely bunnies they eat in England/America etc or the native marsupials the foxes feed on in Australia which one do you barrack for then? Australia is an island; detached from the rest of the world for at least 40,000 years most likely ten times as long and our ecology has developed to the elegant balance that it was before whiteman invasion. Yes in the bronze age the Egyptians came and took our gold leaving us with dingos, buffalo turkeys and pigs [and circumcision in the indigenous culture] but that was a very brief invasion and they left / Whiteman however have come a mere 200 years ago and TAKEN OVER! And now we have to deal with the results of such an invasion. And that means culling and controlling the pests and the plagued rodents ….. no matter how sweet and gorgeous they seem to be and includes maintaining our strict quarantine of any entry into our unique and unusual Island …. to safe guard our fragile ecology.
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Challenge: Speak Out Against the Seal Slaughter!
by CrockpotHere’s the scoop. Every year Canada slaughters thousands of seals by clubbing them, beating them to death, skinning them alive, etc. Ev…
Here’s the scoop. Every year Canada slaughters thousands of seals by clubbing them, beating them to death, skinning them alive, etc. Every year thousands of people protest the so-called ‘hunt’ and animal rights groups beg and plead with the Canadian government to stop the slaughter. And every year the murderous rampage goes on. So this year I want to do something about it. I’ve asked my Voices for Animals group to participate in putting together a massive collage. Each artist is being asked to contribute a single image to speak out for the seals, then all the images will be compiled into one big collage or mosaic. I’ll then send the final product to the top 5 or 6 animals rights organizations that are fighting the ‘hunt’. I invite and encourage everyone on RedBubble to participate. All you have to do is join the Voices for Animals group and get busy! The more people that take part, the louder our collective voice will be!! All you have to do is design something on behalf of the seals. It can be a simple illustration or it can be a photo with some text – it’s entirely up to you. Here are the guidelines: 1) Designs must be no larger than 6”x6”. / 2) Keep it simple in case I need to shrink the final image at all. / 3) Tag your image VFAseals so I can easily find them all. / 4) Once they’re all done, I’ll get the final, flattened images from you and put them together as a mosaic type piece. In the meantime, if you have ideas or suggestions, continue to post in the forums and/or bubblemail me. DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: MARCH 31st, MIDNIGHT EST. I know that doesn’t give you long to churn out your images but this is an urgent issue. I only wish I’d thought to address it sooner. For more information, please check the following sites: Canadian Seal Hunt Sea Shepherd WSPA – Canada HSUS Harp Seals IFAW In case you do want to write or send a card to the Canadian government to express your opposition to the hunt, you can write to the following: Prime Minister’s Office / Right Honorable Stephen Harper / Office of the Prime Minister / 80 Wellington St. Ottawa / Ontario, Canada K1A OA2 / 1-613-992-4211 / Fax: 613-941-6900 / E-mail: pm@pm.gc.ca The Hon. Loyola Hearn / Minister of Fisheries and Oceans / House of Commons / Suite 648-S, Centre Block / Ottawa, Ontario / K1A 0A6 / 613-996-3085 or 613-992-3474 / Fax: 613-996-6988 / Email: HearnL@parl.gc.ca / Voice: 613-992-0927
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Culling my Creations
by Stephen MitchellFor over an hour this evening I’ve been culling, harshly and deeply, from my Redbubble gallery. What once was around 560 images is minu…
For over an hour this evening I’ve been culling, harshly and deeply, from my Redbubble gallery. What once was around 560 images is minus 95 photographs. That’s about 17% removed. Why? / It was time to bring my gallery in line with my own expectations, standards, and expanding abilities. A lot of these images are not inline with the new standards I have set upon myself. / I’m fairly sure none of them were ones that had sold already. I’ve taken a list of all the images so I can go through them carefully because, of the 95, maybe 24 will return after a little bit of re/post-production. If I still like them. Interestingly, my traffic count dropped from around 57,000 to just under 52,000. That’s roughly 100 hits for each photograph I removed. Have you culled your stock yet?
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Seal Slaughter Suspended for a Week!
by CrockpotSea Shepherd News / News Releases / 04/02/2008 Seal Slaughter Suspended for a Week The savage slaughter of the baby seals has been …
Sea Shepherd News / News Releases / 04/02/2008 Seal Slaughter Suspended for a Week The savage slaughter of the baby seals has been suspended for a week. The sealers of the Quebec’s Magdalen Islands have returned home to bury three of the four sealers killed by Canadian Coast Guard incompetence. The fourth is still missing and is presumed dead. Some of the Magdalen Island sealers will not be returning. According to the Canadian media: Wayne Dickson hasn’t caught his quota of seals this season. But the 53-year-old says he no longer has the will to hunt after watching his friend’s sealing vessel capsize while being towed by a Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker in the Gulf of St. Lawrence on the weekend. Dickson and his six-member crew managed to rescue two fishermen, but three other sealers drowned and a fourth is still missing after the damaged L’Acadien II fishing vessel overturned while being dragged over a large chunk of ice, about 70 kilometres north of Cape Breton Island. “I just don’t have the heart for it – I don’t think many of the guys are going back out,” Dickson said Tuesday. “It is just too devastating.” Canadian Minister of Fisheries and Oceans has accused anti-slaughter organizations of exploiting the tragedy to underscore how unsafe sealing is, citing that the sealers are well aware of how dangerous their occupation is. “We did not kill these men,” said Captain Paul Watson. “Canadian government incompetence and the political ambitions of Loyola Hearn killed them. Hearn allows hundreds of undersize, wooden and aluminum vessels into treacherous ice conditions and does not provide adequate Coast Guard protections and training. Those men died because they were in conditions they should not have been in and the Canadian government put them in that position.” Canadian Fisheries Minister Loyola Hearn is attempting to discredit the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society with contradictory accusations. First he accuses Sea Shepherd of being a wealthy organization and then describes the Sea Shepherd ship Farley Mowat as an unsafe “decrepit rust bucket.” The Farley Mowat is an ice class steel hulled 60 meter ship that has years of experience navigating ice conditions both in the Arctic and the Antarctic yet according to the Minister it is unsafe for our ship to be in the ice yet it is okay to send 12 meter fragile vessels into the same ice. In the last week, two sealing boats have sunk, numerous sealing boats have broken down, the government failed to rescue the crew of the boat they were towing after their tow capsized the vessel and then they twice rammed the Farley Mowat with a large ice-breaker. The crew of the Farley Mowat also observed the ice-breaker running down and crushing seal pups on the ice and they observed absolutely no enforcement of the humane regulations with regard to killing the seals. “We’ve seen seals suffering in agony on the ice. We’ve seen enough to know that Canada’s claim that the seal hunt is humane has no credibility” said Farley Mowat communications officer Shannon Mann 35 from Alberta. The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society recognizes that the deaths of four sealers is a tragedy but Sea Shepherd also recognizes that the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of seal pups is an even greater tragedy. “One of the sealers was quoted as saying that he felt absolutely helpless as he watched the boat sink with sealers onboard,” said Captain Paul Watson. “I can’t think of anything that defines helplessness and fear more than a seal pup on the ice that can’t swim or escape as it is approached by some cigarette smoking ape with a club. This is a seal nursery and these men are sadistic baby killers and that might offend some people but it is the unvarnished truth – they are vicious killers who are now pleading for sympathy because some of their own died while engaged in a viciously brutal activity.” The Farley Mowat is berthing in the French islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon until the slaughter resumes next week. The crew intends to get the video off the ship of the Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker twice ramming the Farley Mowat. The Canadian Minister of Fisheries and Oceans has accused Sea Shepherd of lying about the ramming. First he claimed that the Coast Guard did not ram the Sea Shepherd vessel, then he claimed that the Coast Guard only “grazed” the Farley Mowat and then he said that it was the Farley Mowat that hit the Coast Guard icebreaker. The video will be able to confirm the Sea Shepherd story. The Canadian Coast Guard has not released any video and is not expected to. Attempts to retrieve the video by helicopter failed when the Canadian Department of Transport grounded the helicopter from HSUS that was going to pick up the video. / The Sea Shepherd ship Farley Mowat is in the middle of very hostile territory, in the middle of dangerous ice conditions, unable to rely on the Canadian Coast Guard for assistance, under attack by that same Coast Guard, threatened by powerful Canadian politicians, threatened with physical assault from armed and angry seal killers. / “My crew of volunteers are all courageous men and women and they are risking their lives and their freedom to expose the lies of the Canadian government,” said Captain Paul Watson. “They have seen, and they have documented the cruelty of the seal slaughter. They are there to gather evidence to support a European ban of seal products. They do not get paid for this, they make personal sacrifices and I resent the Minister of Fisheries making offensive remarks about their motivations. It is amazing when compassion for life is dismissed as radical and those who slaughter the innocent are given the full support of the government and the Minister of Fisheries. The last time this happened the man’s name was Herod and now it’s Hearn.”
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Every year sealers bludgeon seals with clubs and “hakapiks” (clubs with a metal hook on the end), drag conscious seals across the ice floes with boat hooks, and toss dead and dying animals into heaps and leave their carcasses to rot because there is no market for their meat. Seals are also shot, but bludgeoning is preferred, because pelt buyers deduct money for every bullet hole in a seal’s skin. Veterinarians who studied a past hunt concluded that the hunters failed to comply with Canada’s basic animal welfare standards and that 42 percent of the seals appeared to have been skinned alive. Despite Canada’s ‘new and improved’ methods being implemented this year, sealers are still slaughtering these pups in the same way they have for previous years. It’s unconscionable. For more information, please visit any of the following websites for first-hand accounts and ways you can help save the seals. Sea Shepherd HSUS Canadian Seal Hunt Anti-Sealing Coalition If you would like to get more involved, please join us here on Red Bubble in the Voices for Animals group. The more supporters we have, the louder our collective voice will be!! All proceeds will be donated to Sea Shepherd.
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FINALLY!!! The Seal Collages are DONE!
by CrockpotWhew! My back is killing me and my foot is asleep, but they images are up and ready for you to buy!! Please check them out ~ and ke…
Whew! My back is killing me and my foot is asleep, but they images are up and ready for you to buy!! Please check them out ~ and keep in mind that 100% of the proceeds will be donated to Sea Shepherd. Sea Shepherd has been making international headlines recently with their no-BS approach to ending the seal hunt. So… without further adieu… I present Save Our Seals by the Voices for Animals group!
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Cull of May 2008
by Stephen MitchellI culled around one tenth of my images last night (11.May.2008), bringing it from 500 down to 450. This evening I culled yet another 70 i…
I culled around one tenth of my images last night (11.May.2008), bringing it from 500 down to 450. This evening I culled yet another 70 images from the collection bringing it down to 380. This leaves those I consider my best-sellers and favoured images. I don’t forsee myself culling again for quite some time. I do plan on adding many more artworks over the coming months. BTW, This also culled my traffic from around 63,000 back to 52,500.
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Sea Shepherd Crew Attacked - UPDATE!
by CrockpotSea Shepherd News / News Releases / 04/14/2008 Canadian Mounties Seize the Sea Shepherd vessel Farley Mowat On Saturday, armed Roya…
Sea Shepherd News / News Releases / 04/14/2008 Canadian Mounties Seize the Sea Shepherd vessel Farley Mowat On Saturday, armed Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) stormed and seized Sea Shepherd Conservation Society’s ship the Farley Mowat. All of the Sea Shepherd crew were brought into Sydney, Nova Scotia by the Canadian Coast Guard late Saturday night. Captain Alex Cornelissen and 1st Officer Peter Hammarstedt were detained and charged with allegedly approaching within ½ nautical mile of the seal slaughter. They appeared in court on the morning of April 13th. They are expected to be released on bail today. The rest of the crew-members are currently waiting at the court house on a hunger strike in solidarity with Captain Cornelissen and 1st Officer Peter Hammarstedt. The Farley Mowat remains in the custody of the Canadian Government. It has not yet been determined whether the government intends to permanently confiscate the vessel. The Farley Mowat was documenting the cruel and inhumane slaughter of seals in international waters—not Canadian waters— at the time of the boarding. “It is these images of brutal sadistic slaughter on the ice floes that Canada is desperate to keep hidden,” said Captain Paul Watson, Founder and President of Sea Shepherd. “What the Sea Shepherd crew have witnessed over the last two weeks has exposed the lies of Canadian government claims that the seal slaughter is humane. Canadian Minister of Fisheries Loyola Hearn authorized an assault on a Dutch registered vessel in international waters in order to detract from the tragedy his department was responsible for two weeks ago when four sealers drowned while under tow by the Canadian Coast Guard.” In Canada it is illegal to film, photograph or even witness a seal being killed without permission of the Minister of Fisheries. Hearn said that the action was taken to protect the safety of the sealers. Captain Watson responded by saying, “The sealers have nothing to fear from our cameras and everything to fear from Canadian government’s incompetence. So far Canada has been responsible for four deaths while we were simply taking pictures of sealers inhumanely killing seals.” NOTE: A special poll was conducted to find out what people thought – whether it was right or not for the RCMP to board the Farley Mowat. The results are shocking. Sea Shepherd News / News Releases / 04/12/2008 Seal Defenders Attacked! / The Farley Mowat Has Been Illegally Stormed and the Crew Assaulted At 0700 Hours (PST) and 0800 Hours Atlantic time the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society vessel Farley Mowat was attacked by officers from two Canadian Coast Guard icebreakers the Des Groseilliers and the Sir Wifred Grenfell. Captain Alex Cornelissen informed the boarders that the Farley Mowat is a Dutch registered ship in international waters and that Canada had no legal right to restrict the free passage of the vessel through international waters. The ship was in the Gulf of St. Lawrence well beyond the Canadian twelve mile territorial limit. Captain Paul Watson was speaking by phone with Farley Mowat communications officer Shannon Mann when he heard the voices of men screaming for the crew to fall to the floor. The men carried guns according to Mann and could be heard by Captain Watson threatening the Farley Mowat’s crew. As Captain Watson was speaking with Shannon Mann, the Satellite phone went dead and nothing more has been heard from the Sea Shepherd crew. The Farley Mowat was documenting violations of the humane regulations and gathering proof that the seals were being killed in an inhumane manner. The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is assuming that the video tapes will be seized by the Canadian authorities. There are 17 crewmembers onboard the Dutch registered Farley Mowat from the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, France, Sweden, South Africa, Canada and the United States. The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has been cut off from communication with the crew and has no information on where the vessel will be taken. Sea Shepherd has no information on the condition of the crew and the Society is deeply concerned for their crew. “This is an act of war,” said Captain Paul Watson. “The Canadian government has just sent an armed boarding party onto a Dutch registered yacht in international waters and has seized the ship. Considering that the mission of the Farley Mowat was to document evidence of cruelty by sealers to support a European initiative to ban seal products, I can predict that the Europeans will not be very pleased with this move and most likely this move by Loyola Hearn will guarantee that this bill is passed. In other words the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans has just handed us the victory that we were looking for.”
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Save the Seals by Boycotting Some Simple Things
by CrockpotOne of the most effective ways to get people to listen is to stop giving them money. Here’s a list of places (taken from “www.canadianse…
One of the most effective ways to get people to listen is to stop giving them money. Here’s a list of places (taken from www.canadiansealhunt.com) to start. 1. Avoid all Canadian seafood. / This is to apply economic pressure to Canada. Some of the largest consumers of Canadian seafood are Red Lobster, Long John’s Silvers, and Costco. All of these companies should therefore be avoided. 2. Paul Watson of the Sea Shepherd society is calling for a boycott of Costco. / Costco sells seal oil capsules. Costco has refused to remove these from their shelves. We fully endorse this decision. 3. Avoid traveling to Newfoundland. / This is to apply economic pressure to this province. 4. Boycott fashion houses that profit from seal pelts. / These are: Prada, Dolce & Gabbana, Birger Christensen, New Vogue, and Vogue Furriers. 5. These companies all profit from selling Canadian sea food and should be boycotted: / Acadian, Atlantic Pearl, Bay Shore, Blue Royal, Breakwater, Brunswick, Cape Cod, Canadian Cove, Century Seafoods, Classic (from Beothic), Clearwater, Deep Sea, Doyle, Fisherman’s Finest, Fishery Products International (FPI), Fogo Island, Harbour View, Highliner Foods, Island Pride, Luxury (from Beothic), Northland, Notre Dame Seafoods, Ocean Choice, Ocean Elite, Ocean Leader, Ocean Queen, Ocean Select, Oram’s Choice, Quinland, Quin-Sea, Sea Best (from Beaver Street Co.), Seafreez, Sea Fresh, St. Paul’s, World Catch, and, lastly, Violet brand. 6. Boycott any store that sells herbs that are made from seals. / These products are Terra Nova, Canomega, and Omegavite. Thanks for reading.
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Challenge: Speak Out Against the Seal Slaughter - UPDATE
by CrockpotWell, we officially have 24 submissions for the collage right now ~ which is great!! I encourage you all to check them out. (You can se…
Well, we officially have 24 submissions for the collage right now ~ which is great!! I encourage you all to check them out. (You can see all the submissions by doing a search for VFAseals.) However, we need more! The more works we have, the better the collage will be, and the louder our collective voice will be. So I encourage you all to create something to speak out against the hunt! 1) Make it a 6”x6” design / 2) Tag it VFAseals / 3) Join Voices for Animals and submit your design. It’s so easy! So please, take a few minutes out of your day and do something for the seals! If you have questions or need help just bubblemail me. / Thanks.
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Gucci Stops Selling Seal Fur!!!
by CrockpotAfter hearing from thousands of PETA supporters, Gucci has announced that it will not sell seal fur. Now we must push the company to be i…
After hearing from thousands of PETA supporters, Gucci has announced that it will not sell seal fur. Now we must push the company to be innovative, ethical, and animal-friendly by not causing other animals to suffer for fur. Ask Gucci to go fur-free today! Tell Gucci to Stop Selling All Fur! Cruelty-free Clothing Guide Sign the Petition Against the Seal Hunt Take the Fur-Free Pledge
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HSUS Update on Seal Hunt
by CrockpotOver the past few weeks, th…
Over the past few weeks, the world has watched in horror as Canadian sealers brandished clubs and rifles, brutally slaughtering thousands of defenseless pups, most only a few weeks old. As you read this today, the commercial seal hunt has moved farther north where the killings will resume – with sealers allowed to kill 275,000 seals this year. Because of your support, we have achieved many landmark victories in our campaign to save the seals – and our efforts are reaching a critical mass. This year, it is clear that the end of the seal slaughter is finally in sight. How far we’ve come – and the progress we’re making / Here’s the most exciting piece of news: the European Environment Commissioner has announced a plan to ban the trade in all seal products originating from inhumane hunts. This builds upon the historic declaration by the European parliament in 2006. If an EU-wide ban is enacted, the fashion houses serving the main markets for seal skins today – China and Russia – would be forced to stop, and millions of baby seals would be saved from cruel slaughter. In the meantime, many nations have either banned seal product trade or announced their intentions to do so. They include: Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Croatia, Austria, Slovenia, Panama, Mexico, and the United States. Just the potential for an EU ban on seal products has saved thousands of seals already. Prices paid for seal skins this year have declined so much that most sealers have chosen to stay home. / Together, we’re making progress to protect these wonderful animals and end the cruel Canadian seal hunt. / Photo: The HSUS To tell the EU that you strongly support a total ban on trade in seal products, please sign our petition here. And we have more good news. The HSUS-led boycott of Canadian seafood in the U.S. has attracted more than 618,000 individuals, 3,500 restaurants, and major grocery chains such as Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s. With more than 80% of Newfoundland’s fishing revenue coming from shellfish and less than 3% from the seal hunt, we have tremendous leverage as consumers to end this hunt! Fishermen are fast realizing they stand to lose more from killing seals than they will ever hope to gain.
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Help me & Win! Competition!
by Ché BallardI’m about to have a clear out of some images in my portfolio and thought it might be an idea to get some feedback and help from you lovel…
I’m about to have a clear out of some images in my portfolio and thought it might be an idea to get some feedback and help from you lovely people in the process… The mission (if you choose to accept) is this: Have a squizz at my portfolio and pick two images: One image that you think should stay & one image that you think should get the boot. Bubblemail me with your choices and reason/s why (I promise not to cry). Anyone who votes will be entered into a draw, and a winner will be chosen at random who will then receive a signed card of both the winning and losing image…Ok, so it’s not on a par with a lotto win or even a redbubble voucher, but hey, if I ever achieve my goal of world-domination, it could be worth something ;) Closing date is the 31st August, the winner will be notified on, or around, the 1st September (which also happens to be my birthday…hint hint) Have fun :)
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Sea Shepherd Captain Challenges Hern to Public Debate!!
by CrockpotSea Shepherd News / News Releases / 04/15/2008 Watson Challenges Hearn to a Debate The Minister of Fisheries and Oceans Loyola Hear…
Sea Shepherd News / News Releases / 04/15/2008 Watson Challenges Hearn to a Debate The Minister of Fisheries and Oceans Loyola Hearn is quick to shoot accusations and mis-information from the hip without pausing to think. But how would he do in a face to face debate with the man he loves to hate. Captain Paul Watson, Founder and President of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society today issued a challenge to Mr. Hearn. “You defend the seal killers and I’ll defend the seals, face to face, in public.” “Mr. Hearn described me as gutless,” said Watson. “It’s easy to call people names but he should demonstrate that he has the ‘guts’ to debate me in public. My bet is he will hide behind some sort of excuse that he won’t dignify me with a debate which means in other words that likes to take his shots from behind.” Captain Watson said he would be willing to debate Newfoundland Premier Danny Williams. “In fact, I’ll even take the two of them on together if they feel the need to support each other.” Captain Watson debated Premier Brian Peckford at Memorial University years ago. “Mr. Peckford defended his position on his home turf quite well I thought,” said Watson and added with a laugh, “but I still think I scored more points in that debate. The point is that Mr. Peckford had the courage to defend his position in a public debate. I don’t think that Hearn or Williams have that kind of integrity; I think they both prefer to take cheap shots behind the skirts of the media. ” Captain Watson will debate Hearn or Williams or the two of them anywhere, anyplace and at anytime. “I think this debate has the potential to be enlightening, amusing and certainly entertaining,” said Captain Watson. “Let’s go for it Loyola, Danny, or the both of you. Hey, it could be fun and the public can judge the merits of our arguments much better.”
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Canadian Newspaper Speaks Out Against Seal Hunt!!!
by Crockpot*The millions Ottawa spends subsidizing the seal hunt...
The millions Ottawa spends subsidizing the seal hunt / By Murray Teitel Whether you think killing seals is a bad thing or a good thing, whether you think it barbaric or humane, you should oppose Canada’s annual seal hunt. / According to Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) the justification for the hunt is to provide economic opportunities for Canada’s coastal communities. Last year, according to its Web site, this entire economic opportunity amounted to $12-million, the value of all seal pelts landed. They fetched on average $52 a pelt. According to evidence given to Parliament’s standing committee on fisheries and oceans on Nov. 6, 2006, half of that is eaten up by expenses, so we are talking, at most, $6-million that flowed to the sealers themselves: one-tenth of 1% of Newfoundland’s GDP. (This year it will be even less, because pelts of three to four week old “beaters” that make up 95% of the catch are selling for between $6 and $33.) This $6-million costs Canadians at least 10 times as much and does so year after year. First of all, there is the cost of deploying the Canadian Coast Guard (CCG) to the seal hunt for seven weeks each year. Last year it involved 10 vessels, many of them icebreakers, helicopters and patrol planes. Nobody in government knows, even less wants to know, what this costs. DFO claims it costs nothing because the boats and aircraft are owned and the crews are on salary. Does it cost nothing to put out fires in Toronto because it owns the trucks and firefighters aren’t on piecework? Toronto hires firefighters and buys trucks based on the anticipated number and severity of fires. A significant part of what CCG does is rescue sealers. Some 24% of its 2003 fishing vessel rescues derived from this hunt. Without it, CCG’s annual budget could be significantly reduced. One hunt-deployed icebreaker, the Amundsen, costs $50,000 per day to operate in winter. Given DFO’s lack of transparency, one can only estimate the annual CCG cost attributable to the hunt at $5-million. Secondly, every year some disaster occurs. Last year, it was heavy ice that trapped sealers for days on end. Some even ran out of cigarettes! DFO calculated the extra CCG costs due to heavy ice at $3.41-million. It also paid $7.9-million to owners of boats damaged by ice. This year, it is the drowning of four sealers and the near drowning of two while being rescued by CCG. This resulted in the cost of an unsuccessful week-long 2,800 nautical square mile search for one of the drowned and his boat involving patrol planes, helicopters and three icebreakers. The inevitable lawsuits and legal bills will easily cost more than $6-million. Thirdly, millions are spent every year trying to counter bans on the importation of seal products. Our NAFTA partners and four European countries have imposed bans. Four countries have announced intentions to do so. Italy and Luxembourg have suspended imports. The European Parliament resolved to impose an EU-wide ban. The Council of Europe has called on its 46 members to do so. Canada has taken Holland and Belgium to the World Trade Organization in Geneva. Aside form being terribly expensive, it jeopardizes a relationship with two countries with which Canada has a trade surplus. $5.2-million of raw seal products constitutes less than 1/1,000 of what we export to Europe. The DFO, since at least 2003, has been flying high-level delegations to Europe to argue against the bans. Last year, there were at least six such junkets. For example, on March 27, 2007, a 17-person delegation was dispatched to the British Parliament for a meeting attended by only five British MPs. Last month, seven Canadians, including Loyola Sullivan, ambassador for fisheries conservation, the Premier of Nunavut and a Newfoundland Cabinet minister flew to four European capitals for a week. Unfortunately, they seem to use a travel agent who excels at finding the most expensive fares available. When Mr. Sullivan flew on seal business to five European capitals this January, the airfare alone was $10,270.80. The DFO’s Kevin Stringer flew to Paris for $4,459.65 on Sept. 5, 2007. Of course, this is nothing compared with the $16,025.25 spent on airfare to Australia and New Zealand by the DFO’s director general of economic analysis whom I wish would do an economic analysis of his own expense accounts. With hotels, wines, meals and support staff, this adds up. They have as much chance of stemming this tide as Germany did of stopping the Allies after D Day. The battle is lost. But because of ideological fanaticism they keep fighting, secure in the delusion that the Canadian taxpayer, like the cod, is an inexhaustible resource that will forever fund this foolishness that only benefits the high-end European tourism industry. Fourthly, there is the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) led boycott that is largely responsible for the inflation adjusted $465-million drop in the value of Canadian exports of snow crabs — the main seafood export to the United States from Canada’s sealing provinces — since April, 2005. The value of 2007 snow crab exports is 44% lower than it was in 2004, the year prior to the boycott. HSUS has to date persuaded almost 3,600 U.S. businesses to participate, including heavy hitters Publix (annual sales $24-billion), Whole Foods ($7-billion), WinCo Foods, Lowe’s Foods, Harris Teeter ($3-billion each) and smaller, seafood-driven ones like Legal Sea Foods ($400-million). Sealing creates less than 1% of the value of the sealing provinces’ fishery. Sacrifice 99% for the sake of 1%. Now there’s a business plan! Finally, there is the cost of the DFO seal-hunt bureaucracy, which alone has to cost more than the sealers earn: license issuers, accountants, typists, file clerks, inspectors, quota setters, regulation drafters, “scientists,” “statisticians,” “economic analysts,” speech writers, media relations officers, anti-boycott propagandists, writers of replies to angry letters, arrangers of tours of European journalists (when the seal hunt is not taking place), all in the service of what DFO says is 5,000 to 6,000 (more like 2,000, I believe) people averaging $1,000 a year from killing 275,000 seals. There is a conflict of interest in the DFO having jurisdiction over the Coast Guard. If it were controlled by the Minister of Defence, he’d immediately see that for what he is spending on the seal hunt, he could outfit an artillery regiment. Enough already. This is a colossal waste of taxpayers’ money. And the sealers? Sealers should prefer these monies be used to train them for jobs in the 21st-century economy, rather than to preserve them as relics of a hunter/gatherer one. Financial Post / Murray Teitel is a Toronto lawyer and journalist.
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