Its just horrific out there. There is blood all across the ice and seal carcasses as far as the eye can see. Weve seen seals that were moving around and breathing, that have been left in these piles, some left conscious and crawling. We keep coming across seals that are conscious, bleeding to death and literally suffocating to death in their own blood.
-Rebecca Aldworth of the Humane Society of the United States commenting on the annual Canadian seal hunt, which harvests 319,000 seals.
Every year about this time I guess [animal rights groups] coffers are getting empty, too, so they step up and get that campaign going so they make a bit of money.
-Seal hunter Ben Foley of Conche, Newfoundland.
