New way to continue seal hunt - answer to food crisis!

May 30, 2008

IMO just a way to validate and continue the bloody and criminal seal hunt. Like this will solve the food crisis. Unreal. http://www.thenorwester.ca/index.cfm?sid=138972 & sc=354<http://www.thenorwester.ca/index.cfm?sid=138972 & sc=354> The Nor'westerIt wasn't too long ago when the world's eyes were focused on Newfoundlandfor its annual seal hunt. Politics and protesting aside, with the currentstate of world hunger, seals could provide an affordable nutritionsupplement.According to Humber-Ste. Barbe-Baie Verte MP Gerry Byrne, the idea ofre-branding the sealing industry isn't anything new, it's just an

idea whosetime might have come. In a May 6 statement, he called on the federalgovernment to impanel a task force to do just that - and using a sustainablesealing industry could be key to solving the world food shortage."I do this with a certain amount of caution because I recognize we've triedthis before and it failed," said Mr. Byrne in an interview. "You cannot takea foreign dietary supplement and inject it into an ethnic food base. It'slike feeding milk to someone who is lactose intolerant, it just doesn'twork."He said the difference with this current attempt to change the industry arethe research and development that has been taking place in Newfoundland andthe world food shortage."The food crisis has extended well beyond areas that have previouslyencountered food crises, the food crisis is now hitting southeast Asia," hesaid. "Seal meat has always been a product which

is readily acceptable andis already integrated into dietary patterns, China in particular. Seal meatitself, in a canned product, would not be considered a foreign foodsubstance."For use in diets unused to the oil-rich meat, extracting protein into apowder and creating omega-3 oils could allow its integration intosupplements used in Canada's humanitarian efforts.Mr. Byrne says the issue of whether to find new uses for seal meat boilsdown to the fact there are a billion people who are starving."The problem is not only going to get worse, it's spreading to areas thathistorically have not had food shortages," he said. "Now you have acircumstance in Miyanmar (Burma) where over a million people are dislocatedand their entire rice crop has been decimated. That's a circumstance thatwent beyond original estimates of the world food shortage."With the government spending about 231 million

a year on food aid, it mightnot be a bad idea to see if seal meat can be integrated into the program."You've got a global food crisis, grains that used to be a staple are beingredirected to bio-fuels, you've got currency chaos preventing some countriesfrom being able to buy food, and there's a huge demand being created byChina and India because of their growing populations," said Mr. Byrne. "Isthe world really ready to say we don't want it?" http://pets.Fortheanimals7/join http://www.myspace.com/fortheanimals7

June 2, 2008

Of course they would come up with this, we all should have realised that it was only a matter of time until the seal slaughterers tried to justify what they are doing...and palm off the meat, they wouldn't eat themselves.

what they should be doing is stop China taking over all the rice producing countries and making them plant rubber instead of rice, but now every country in the world owes China money so they wont say boo about anything.

I thought that the people in Burma were mainly Buddhists (maybe I dreamed it) but if so they wouldn't eat seal meat anyway. India is mainly vegetarian..and they are one of the top exporters of rice in the world, I cant imagine them fancying a bit of seal either.

Jill

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Friday, May 30, 2008 4:08 PM

New way to continue seal hunt - answer to food crisis!

IMO just a way to validate and continue the bloody and criminal seal hunt. Like this will solve the food crisis. Unreal.

http://www.thenorwester.ca/index.cfm?sid=138972 & sc=354<http://www.thenorwester.ca/index.cfm?sid=138972 & sc=354> The Nor'westerIt wasn't too long ago when the world's eyes were focused onNewfoundlandfor its annual seal hunt. Politics and protesting aside, with thecurrentstate of world hunger, seals could provide an affordable nutritionsupplement.According to Humber-Ste. Barbe-Baie Verte MP Gerry Byrne, the idea ofre-branding the sealing industry isn't anything new, it's just an ideawhosetime might have come. In a May 6 statement, he called on the federalgovernment to impanel a task force to do just that - and using asustainablesealing industry could be key to solving the world food shortage."I do this with a certain amount of caution because I recognize we'vetriedthis before and it failed," said Mr. Byrne in an interview. "You cannottakea foreign dietary supplement and inject it into an ethnic food base.It'slike feeding milk to someone who is lactose intolerant, it just doesn'twork."He said the difference with this current attempt to change the industryarethe research and development that has been taking place in Newfoundlandandthe world food shortage."The food crisis has extended well beyond areas that have previouslyencountered food crises, the food crisis is now hitting southeastAsia," hesaid. "Seal meat has always been a product which is readily acceptableandis already integrated into dietary patterns, China in particular. Sealmeatitself, in a canned product, would not be considered a foreign foodsubstance."For use in diets unused to the oil-rich meat, extracting protein into apowder and creating omega-3 oils could allow its integration intosupplements used in Canada's humanitarian efforts.Mr. Byrne says the issue of whether to find new uses for seal meatboilsdown to the fact there are a billion people who are starving."The problem is not only going to get worse, it's spreading to areasthathistorically have not had food shortages," he said. "Now you have acircumstance in Miyanmar (Burma) where over a million people aredislocatedand their entire rice crop has been decimated. That's a circumstancethatwent beyond original estimates of the world food shortage."With the government spending about 231 million a year on food aid, itmightnot be a bad idea to see if seal meat can be integrated into theprogram."You've got a global food crisis, grains that used to be a staple arebeingredirected to bio-fuels, you've got currency chaos preventing somecountriesfrom being able to buy food, and there's a huge demand being created byChina and India because of their growing populations," said Mr. Byrne."Isthe world really ready to say we don't want it?"