<div><FONT size=3>Hello, </FONT></div> <div><FONT size=3></FONT> </div> <div><FONT size=3>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".</FONT></div> <div> </div> <DIV class=headline>End seal hunt sooner than later</DIV> <DIV class=pubdate>Mar. 6, 2006. 01:00 AM</DIV> <div><BR><FONT face=helvetica,Arial size=2> <HR align=left width=200 noShade> </HR><B>Paul versus the premier </div> <DIV class=articlebody> <div></div></B></FONT> <HR align=left width=200> </HR><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>March 4. </FONT> <div></div>Newfoundland Premier Danny WIlliams's embarassing performance Friday night on <I>Larry </I><I>King Live </I>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. <div></div>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. <div></div>His arguments were weak, he was generally a sorry and unconvincing representative for his side and he made Newfoundland (and Canada) look bad. <div></div>The seal hunt should be ended, sooner rather than later. <div></div> <HR align=left width=200> </HR><FONT face=helvetica,arial size=2><B>Laurel Harris, </B> <div></div>Snowmass Village, Colo.</FONT><BR><BR><B><I>Meredith Barrett <mbarrett@connect.carleton.ca></I></B> wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">hey guys<BR>i did read the article and was absolutely enraged. I plan on writing a <BR>letter to the editing
rebutting many of his ridiculous points. he <BR>completely misses the point of many animal activists' problems with the <BR>seal hunt. i can't speak for everyone but i think one of the main <BR>points is that we simply dont' have the right to exploit seals like <BR>this! humans decided that we did but that is out of our own pure <BR>selfishness. to quote alice walker, animals exist for their own <BR>reasons. and it seemed he suggested that the only issue mccartney was <BR>attacking was the seal hunt. as we all know, he is an avid animal <BR>activist and speaks out against many causes, including factory farming <BR>and fur farms. the columnist then goes on to say that if people listen <BR>to mccartney then all places that exploit animals and kill them for our <BR>selfish use should be shut down. um well yeah! because who gave us the <BR>right to torture them for our pathetic reasons? and don't even get me <BR>started about that ridiculous suggestion that without animals, how on
<BR>earth could the children possible develop normally? disgusting, a truly <BR>disgusting article you can bet i'm going to respond to! i encourage <BR>others!<BR>meredith<BR><BR><BR>v_good@rogers.com wrote:<BR><BR><BR>> Has anyone read this editorial? <BR>http://www.ottawasun.com/Comment/Editorial/2006/03/03/1471866.html<BR>> It sounds like his 'facts' are right out of the Fisheries' Minister's <BR>form letter... full of lies! incredible how this editor gets the last <BR>say of the McCartney's visit/whole issue and is allowed to print <BR>rubbish like that.. oped@ott.sunpub.com ...if you want to send in your <BR>comments not that they'll be printed of course...I thought that at <BR>least the Larry King debate sounded more in our favour...unless people <BR>take the chicken, beef and 'milk for children' analogy seriously...just <BR>curious of what others thought of the debate?
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