These past three days 260.000 young seals were killed in northern Canada.
Humans want their skins.
Most of the seals were just babies. Some were shot, most were clubbed to death,
because the hunters get a better prize for seal skins without bullet holes.
Dutch TV showed seals that were being skinned alive.
The Canadian gouvernment has decided that, up till the year 2006,
a total of 975.000 seals may be killed. That`s a record number.
There are too many seals and they eat too much fish, these government humans say.
The commercial seal hunt causes big protests and outrage in some European countries,
just like it did in the 1970s,
and there`s a strong call for a boycot of all Canadian seal fur.

In my country a seal is called a `zeehond` or `sea dog`.
Not far from my town, in Pieterburen village, there`s a seal shelter for sick and weak seals
that are picked up by boats on the Waddensea: http://www.pbase.com/image/27943021
The seals get treatment there and then they return to the sea.
So in one country they heal and protect seals. And in another country they are clubbed to death.
Tell me how the human mind works.
It makes me really, really, really angry.

Club sandwiches, not baby seals!