90,000 Seals To Be Clubbed To Death In Nambia
Namibia’s annual seal hunting will go on despite objections by animal welfare groups, a government official said Monday. Hunters are expected to club over 90,000 seals, including 85,000 pups.
Namibia has been practicing this events every year to club seals to use furs, eat their meats, and seal genitals are sold as traditional medicines and aphrodisiacs in Asia.
Although a lot of human activist have been fighting for animals, there is still a long way before this battle ends. It is very sad to know that hunters will still continue to kill baby seals and adult seals for this season despite the chaos. Frans Tsheehama of the Namibian fisheries and marine resources ministry told the AP that the season started on July 1 and will run until Nov. 15.
From the article,
Namibia is one of only a few remaining countries with a commercial seal harvest. The government argues that the seal population needs to be controlled to protect fish stocks. However, animal rights activists say the practice is inhumane and outdated. Seals are hunted for skins; fur and meat, and seal genitals are sold as traditional medicines and aphrodisiacs in Asia
There is still good news for all those who are fighting for animal rights-AJ Cady of the International Fund for Animal Welfare said that the industry is “collapsing” worldwide, mainly in part to a recent European Union ban on the import of seal products combined with the global economic downturn. As we reported earlier, it was also heartening to see this year that a record low number of seals were killed during the Canadian Seal Hunt.
Also according to Cady: “The great question here is who is really buying these things?” Cady said. “The cruelty is so obvious.”
With everything happening to animals today, I still feel good that there are people who are fighting for animal rights.
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