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Morrissey Speaks Out Against Seal Hunt

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True to Morrissey style, he has given a bold statement against the Canadian seal slaughter. The statement appeared on a Morrissey Zine site True To You and reads:

“31 March 2008

Statement from Morrissey:

In late June the Montreal Symphony are hosting a TV Special to salute Buffy Sainte-Marie’s 50th year making music. I am honored to be asked to take part. I first bought a Buffy Sainte-Marie record when I was 12, and her music has always remained with me. In the 1960s, as a political activist, Buffy’s lyrics were fearless, and I’m very grateful for all the risks that she took.
I am also pleased to be asked to join the bill at the V Festival at the Thunderbird Stadium in Vancouver, and also at Fort Calgary in Calgary.
However, as we all know, the psychologically and constitutionally sickening Canadian seal-kill has started and is once again in full-cry.
The horror of the Canadian seal-kill is untranslatable, and although I fully realize that highly concentrated evil exists in other countries - Japan’s dolphin slaughter, Iceland’s newly-revived whaling, the cat-skinning trade in Switzerland, and China with just about every injustice imaginable - there is something especially menacing about Canada’s seal-kill.
Loyola Sullivan (Canada’s Ambassador for Fisheries Conservation) is a man of glacial coldness who claims that the seal-kill is “humane” - a view he might alter if his own skull were cracked open with a spiked axe.
The fact that the seal-kill provides a livelihood for fishermen is an insultingly dim excuse for it to take place - after all, the German gas chambers of World War 2 also provided work for someone.
The seal-kill takes place to satisfy greed for fur-pelts, and this Canadian government is happy to drag the global image of its own country down, and make it a place that people such as I couldn’t bear to visit.

MORRISSEY, 29 March 2008.”

Don’tcha just love how ruthlessly honest he is? Keep it up Morrissey, stick up for the animals and don’t ever tame your words.

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posted by JOANNE on April 3rd, 2008 at 8:20 am

Excellent statement. When will we ever see an end to this barbaric atrocity???

posted by Nathalie on April 4th, 2008 at 7:13 am

Thank you Morrissey,
All animal lovers on this Earth are crying out for
the sake of defenceless animals!
All of us just pray and hope for this horrific genocide to take end…RIGHT NOW!!!

posted by Ivan on April 4th, 2008 at 7:26 am

Keep up the fight Morrissey!
Your voice is another step to end this bloody barbary! A lot more needs to be done for our friends animals!
Its simply unbearable to let those murderers run one more time after innocent and lovely baby seals and do what they are doing! Our governments have to move and take decisions to stop it IMMEDIATELY!!!

posted by Alejandra on April 4th, 2008 at 2:15 pm

Canada first world country? Sure!!! This people should die in the same way, anyway it’s really humanitarian isn’t it?

posted by Tessa on April 10th, 2008 at 12:53 pm

I really think that people need to get their facts straight. The Canadian seal hunt does not include ‘baby’ seals. Baby being the wrong terminology and one that activists use to make the hunt seem cruel. The term is seal pup and the commercial hunt of nursing seal pups is banned in Canada. Scientific research confirms that Canada’s seal hunt does not negatively impact the sustainability of its seal species. History also supports this evidence, as the harp seal population, for example, has burgeoned by several million animals in recent decades, despite continued hunting. I am also tired of being labelled barbaric because of the hunt. Why not go protest at an abattoir? Are the people there barbaric as well? They also make their living off the slaughter of animals. But then again calves and chickens etcetera are not as cute as seals and PETA and other organizations would not be able to make any money from other animals.
Is Morrissey going to stop touring in all places where animals are killed? I don’t think so. He is just one more person making money from saying the hunt is wrong. Its good for his image.
I feel bad for the people who are conned and think things that are fundamentally wrong about Canada and the seal hunt.

posted by Billy on April 15th, 2008 at 9:15 pm

Wrong Tessa - almost all seals killed are babies less than 3 months old. Young, old or in between, this slaughter is violent and obscene. Wrong again Tessa - there is no independent scientific review to suggest that the hunt is sustainable. Wrong again Tessa - the only people who make money off this are the sealers, the Barry Group (Newfoundland)and Reiber Corp in Norway. Activists like me lose money and time protesting the seal hunt. Oh and also wrong Tessa - I also protest abbatoirs and the abuse of animals anywhere. By the way Tessa, I am a Newfoundlander against the seal hunt. Not everyone from eastern Canada or the rock approves of this despicable activity. All the best ducky!

posted by WMK,NS on April 26th, 2008 at 12:02 pm

Morrisey and Billy …. Morrisey.. fess-up !!! I am willing to wager you have leather shoes in your closet,a leather billfold,leather upholstery,golf shoes maybe,tennis gloves maybe,suede or leather jackets, down-filled duvets or pillows etc etc…all those products come slaughter of animals.If you don’t want to perform in Countries who slaughter animals….hmmmm? guess that leaves you not needing a microphone.
Billy… awwww boy…sorry to hear you are from NFLD and saying that only the sealers make a profit from the seal hunt.Wakey !! Wakey !!IT IS a BIG INDUSTRY and MANY people profit….the fuel companies,the truckers,trades people using the hides for their products,Fur Companies,extended Hotel/Motel season,grocery stores,fishery suppy stores.All parts of the seal is used..not just the pelts…but the oil,liver and local and natives are on the wharves waiting for the meat and flippers.If the seal hunt ends… it will snowball into the downfall of many other business folk !!!

posted by WMK,NS on April 26th, 2008 at 12:14 pm

Europe is trying to ban the seal products…think they should clean up their actfirst…Australia exports approximately 3 million kangaroo skins, worth more than £12 million, to Europe and the USA every year. The vast majority of these skins are used to make football boots, some are used for golf gloves, baseball mitts and other sports goods. Products are often labelled “K leather” or “RKT” (rubberised kangaroo technology) to disguise the fact that they are made from the skins of butchered kangaroos.
There are a number of different types of recreational hunting in Australia: game bird hunting (waterfowl and quail); kangaroo and wallaby hunting; feral animal hunting; game ranch hunting of exotic species; and safari hunting. There is already a significant industry based on game hunting of feral species including goats, pigs and buffalo.

posted by Stacey Elack on May 3rd, 2008 at 5:35 pm

Ending the seal hunt will not harm anyone’s economy. I love how contrary people always try to spin any effort anyone makes to de-uglify the world, into a big catastophic economic failure. Guess you’ll be sticking up for the tobacco companies that kill millions with their products. Well, those people make a living from evil,too. Hardly justification for making excuses for them. As for the game ranch hunting, those people that provide that service, and take part, are complete and utter dirtbags. I’d love to go over there and chase those scum down unarmed, see how much fun it is to be terrified before you’re needlessly killed.
And because I’M not a coward, I’m more than happy to reveal who I am. Of course, I’m not one of the many finger-pointing cowardly Republicans. Always making sure everyone knows what you think, no matter how backwards it is.

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