[4animals] Editorial in Saturday's SUN

[K]

Hello, 
   
  Today's Toronto Star features a letter to the editor from a woman in Colorado.    Encouraging!   She says, among other things, that Danny Williams (was) "a sorry and unconvincing representative for his side and he made Newfoundland (and Canada) look bad".
   
  End seal hunt sooner than later
  Mar. 6, 2006. 01:00 AM
  
  
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  Paul versus the premier 
    
  
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  March 4.   
Newfoundland Premier Danny WIlliams's embarassing performance Friday night on Larry King Live did nothing to advance the cause for Newfoundland's seal hunt. Paul and Heather McCartney are correct in stating that the hunt is very damaging to Canada's international reputation.   
To stubbornly refuse to even consider alternatives available to the seal hunters to replace the relatively small amount of $15 million to $20 million in income is doing a disservice to both the province and the country.   
His arguments were weak, he was generally a sorry and unconvincing representative for his side and he made Newfoundland (and Canada) look bad.   
The seal hunt should be ended, sooner rather than later.   
  
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  Laurel Harris,   
Snowmass Village, Colo.

Meredith Barrett <mbarrett at connect.carleton.ca> wrote:
  hey guys
i did read the article and was absolutely enraged. I plan on writing a 
letter to the editing rebutting many of his ridiculous points. he 
completely misses the point of many animal activists' problems with the 
seal hunt. i can't speak for everyone but i think one of the main 
points is that we simply dont' have the right to exploit seals like 
this! humans decided that we did but that is out of our own pure 
selfishness. to quote alice walker, animals exist for their own 
reasons. and it seemed he suggested that the only issue mccartney was 
attacking was the seal hunt. as we all know, he is an avid animal 
activist and speaks out against many causes, including factory farming 
and fur farms. the columnist then goes on to say that if people listen 
to mccartney then all places that exploit animals and kill them for our 
selfish use should be shut down. um well yeah! because who gave us the 
right to torture them for our pathetic reasons? and don't even get me 
started about that ridiculous suggestion that without animals, how on 
earth could the children possible develop normally? disgusting, a truly 
disgusting article you can bet i'm going to respond to! i encourage 
others!
meredith


v_good at rogers.com wrote:


> Has anyone read this editorial? 
http://www.ottawasun.com/Comment/Editorial/2006/03/03/1471866.html
> It sounds like his 'facts' are right out of the Fisheries' Minister's 
form letter... full of lies! incredible how this editor gets the last 
say of the McCartney's visit/whole issue and is allowed to print 
rubbish like that.. oped at ott.sunpub.com ...if you want to send in your 
comments not that they'll be printed of course...I thought that at 
least the Larry King debate sounded more in our favour...unless people 
take the chicken, beef and 'milk for children' analogy seriously...just 
curious of what others thought of the debate? 
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