Vegetarian Star

Bill Maher has a guest post at the New York Daily News urging his Canadian friends to make strides towards ending the country’s annual seal hunt.

Ever the sarcastic personality Maher is, he uses examples of how other governments have agreed the hunt is senseless, while Canada falls behind even the…gasp…United States Senate!

“Opposition around the world is growing. Last year, the U.S. Senate – a group of people who usually can’t agree that the sky is blue – unanimously passed a resolution calling for an immediate end to the annual slaughter. But the Canadian government just keeps putting its fingers in its ears and singing “la, la, la” so that it won’t hear anything it doesn’t like. Or, if it does hear, it responds with all the subtlety and sophistication of a fistfight in the men’s room at a monster-truck rally.”

“The European Union, for example, recently passed a ban on seal products. So after stomping its feet and jutting out its lower lips for a while, Canada threatened to go tell Mom that it’s being picked on. Sorry, did I say “Mom”? I meant the World Trade Organization. And as if that weren’t tone-deaf enough, in response to the EU’s ban, Canada’s Parliament also pushed – unsuccessfully – to incorporate seal skins into the uniforms of the Canadian Olympic team in a desperate attempt to legitimize the seal slaughter.”

“When Russia announced a ban on the killing of baby harp seals in that country, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin called the seal slaughter a “bloody industry that should have been banned long ago.” Shortly thereafter, Canada’s Governor General Michaelle Jean cut open a seal and chowed down on the animal’s raw heart, burbling inanely, “It’s like sushi.” I’m not making that up.”

Read Maher’s entire post at the New York Daily News.

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