Paul McCartney and Heather Mills in Canada to protest seal slaughter

**MaryJane** · March 1st, 2006, 03:34 AM

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Former BEATLE SIR PAUL McCARTNEY and his wife HEATHER MILLS McCARTNEY will travel to Canada this week (begs28FEB06) to plead with city officials in Ottawa to end their annual seal hunt.

The couple will observe the seal pups before the annual hunt opens, according to the Humane Society Of The United States.

The McCartneys are both longtime animal rights activists and will head out to the frigid ice floes off the Gulf Of St Lawrence to bring attention to the pups' plight.

According to the Humane Society's director of Canadian wildlife issues, REBECCA ALDWORTH, "Heather and Paul's visit to the seal pups will shine a global media spotlight on this cruel and needless slaughter."

The exact timing of this year's hunt has not been confirmed, but it generally runs from mid-March through to mid-April, but the unseasonably mild winter has put the hunt date on hold.

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A*O · March 1st, 2006, 03:39 AM

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The McCartneys are both longtime animal rights activists

Errrr no - Paul and Linda were rabid vegetarians and PETA supporters. "Lady" Heather only jumped on the bandwagon when she decided to snag herself a Beatle. Of course people can 'see the light' but there is nothing that woman wouldn't do to further her own self-publicity.

LynnieD · March 1st, 2006, 01:34 PM

I hate this whore Heather even more than I hate JLo, and that's a LOT.

miss_perfect · March 1st, 2006, 01:37 PM

I was one of those people who was like "boy he got married a little soon after the love of his life died", but Heather has done a lot of good for animal welfare so I got over it real quick.

Grimmlok · March 1st, 2006, 04:19 PM

I admire their tenacity but god they are annoying. It wouldn't break my heart to see either of them clubbed and skinned

Grimmlok · March 1st, 2006, 04:34 PM

Yeah well, John Lennon wasn't the only one to get Yoko Ono'd.

calendargurl · March 1st, 2006, 11:56 PM

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Originally Posted by MonkeyMix

I hear ya...I just don't really care what a person's motivations are if the end result is that they help out the animals.

exactly!

deckchick · March 2nd, 2006, 01:25 AM

Fuck me... I think I shall go and protest celebrity protesters...

Maybe I could use Heathers leg as a club... on that crazy mofo Paul.

Let the chick-hating begin. If you are sending me hate mail, please include a good subject line.

calendargurl · March 2nd, 2006, 02:58 AM

i don't understand how some can talk shit about people (famous or not) when they're trying to save animals

deckchick · March 2nd, 2006, 11:43 AM

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Originally Posted by calendargurl

i don't understand how some can talk shit about people (famous or not) when they're trying to save animals

I am not talking shit, just stating my opinion. I am a meat eating Canadian who happens to see nothing wrong with the hunt.

Monkey, again tis just my opinion.

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Originally Posted by Frank Rizzo

What's wrong with standing up for what you believe in???

Not a dang thing Frankie, but if you put yourself in the line of fire, expect a couple of shots

Grimmlok · March 2nd, 2006, 11:51 AM

Well, if they were going to hunt I would honestly rather them do it HUMANELY.. clubbing and skinning and sick and twisted, and unnecessarily brutal.

Grimmlok · March 2nd, 2006, 12:04 PM

.... I would never do that.

*innocent whistle*

Elvira · March 2nd, 2006, 01:29 PM

Is it that time of year already? This is off topic at our house.

McCartney in clash over seal hunt
From correspondents in Ottawa

03mar06

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FORMER Beatle Paul McCartney urged Canada today to scrap its annual seal hunt, but Ottawa dismissed his appeal, saying he did not fully understand the issue.

Canada said the two-month hunt, in which around 300,000 harp seals off the east coast are killed for their fur and meat, is good for the local economy, humane and keeps a booming population of 5.8 million animals in check.
But pictures of hunters clubbing or shooting defenceless seals over the years have turned the event into a public relations nightmare for Ottawa and prompted several boycotts of Canadian products.

Later today, McCartney - well known as an animal rights activist - and his wife Heather were to fly out to an ice floe to pose with baby white-coated seals, while urging Ottawa to scrap the "this heartbreaking hunt".

"We have complete faith that Prime Minister (Stephen) Harper will take swift and decisive action to end the slaughter of these defenceless seal pups for good," the high-profile couple said in a statement.

The Canadian government has yet to decide how many seals can be killed this year, in part because warm weather has meant there are far fewer ice floes where the animals normally give birth. The hunt usually starts at the end of March.

Phil Jenkins, a spokesman for the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, said the US animals rights activists arranging the McCartneys' trip were giving them an inaccurate and incomplete picture of the hunt.

"We see this every year. It's the celebrity of the year. This year's celebrity has a bit higher candlepower than last year's but the facts of the hunt are that it's more humane than ever, it's growing as an economically viable industry and the herd is in fantastic shape," he said.

Mr Jenkins said the white-coated seals McCartney planned to pose with had not been hunted since 1987.

The seals' white coats disappear after four weeks, while those animals killed in the hunt are eight weeks or older.

"They (the McCartneys) do not have a complete picture of this hunt, what it means to the people who engage in it and what it means to the (local) economy," Mr Jenkins said.

Canadian officials said they monitor the hunt closely to ensure the seals are killed humanely - an assertion activists dismiss as nonsense.

"I routinely witness conscious seals dragged across the ice with boathooks, wounded seals left to choke on their own blood, and seals being skinned alive. The commercial seal hunt is inherently cruel - it is a national disgrace," said Rebecca Aldworth of the Humane Society of the United States.

Canada said large-scale hunting will be allowed to continue until the number of harp seals falls to 3.85 million.

http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/com...5E1702,00.html

Grimmlok · March 2nd, 2006, 04:11 PM

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I wish cancer, AIDS and leprosy on every single seal hunter and the people who support it.

Grimmlok · March 2nd, 2006, 04:58 PM

LOL!

That's Scott, the arch-nemesis of Terrence and Philip. He hates their fart jokes, and helped Saddam Hussein take over Canada. Philip learned from Celine Dion (who was dating Ugly Bob) that his daughter had been kidnapped and was in Iraq.

In that picture, Terrance and Phillip farted and Scott is like " Ugh! I hate you! I abhor you both! I abhor you both, and I hope you get cancer!" and then started waving his hands at them.

Terrence asks him what he's doing and Scott replies "I'm wishing cancer upon you!". Terrence then hides behind Phillip who screams " Don't give ME cancer!"