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The Seal Hunt: Canada’s Auschwitz?

First Paul McCartney compared the seal hunt to the slave trade. Now Morrissey has announced that he will be boycotting Canada in his next tour, making a truly jaw-dropping comparison between Canada’s seal-hunting and Nazi Germany’s Final Solution:

The Canadian Prime Minister also states that the slaughter is necessary because it provides jobs for local communities, but this is an ignorant reason for allowing such barbaric and cruel slaughter of beings that are denied life simply because somebody somewhere might want to wear their skin. Construction of German gas chambers also provided work for someone – this is not a moral or sound reason for allowing suffering.

What an appalling thing to say. What a disgrace to the memory of the millions who perished in the Holocaust.

Are these self-important aging rockers really so ignorant of history, or so contemptuous of human beings, or both, that they think a comparison between the seal hunt and the Holocaust or the slave trade is appropriate?

They certainly aren’t doing the opposition to the hunt any favours. I’m starting to think Morrissey’s absence from Canada is worth a few dozen dead seals at least.

9 Responses to “The Seal Hunt: Canada’s Auschwitz?”
  1. wemi:

    March 27th, 2006 at 2:26 pm

    i still miss morrissey!

  2. Tim:

    March 27th, 2006 at 2:48 pm

    Despite the fact that the seals can’t possibly know how Morrissey feels, heaven knows he’s miserable now. All he asks is please, please, please let him get what he wants.

  3. wemi:

    March 27th, 2006 at 2:57 pm

    hahaha…

  4. alevo:

    March 27th, 2006 at 4:44 pm

    The gas chambers were not a job solution – they were the final solution.

    Morrissey’s patent melodrama has finally run its course…to irrelevance. You want to know why his plea won’t work? Not because the seal hunt is wrong, but because nobody cares if they see Morrissey in concert.

  5. Ade:

    March 28th, 2006 at 10:49 am

    Full Morrissey statement:

    We will not include any Canadian dates on our world tour to promote our new album. This is in protest against the barbaric slaughter of over 325,000 baby seals which is now underway.

    I fully realise that the absence of any Morrissey concerts in Canada is unlikely to bring the Canadian economy to its knees, but it is our small protest against this horrific slaughter – which is the largest slaughter of marine animal species found anywhere on the planet.

    The Canadian Prime Minister says the so-called “cull” is economically and environmentally justified, but this is untrue.

    The seal population has looked after itself for thousand of years without human intervention, and, as the world knows, this slaughter is about one thing only: making money. The Canadian government will stream all of the pelts into the fashion industry and this is the reason why the baby seals are killed with spiked clubs that crush their skulls – any damage to their pelts is avoided. The Canadian Prime Minister also states that the slaughter is necessary because it provides jobs for local communities, but this is an ignorant reason for allowing such barbaric and cruel slaughter of beings that are denied life simply because somebody somewhere might want to wear their skin.

    Construction of German gas chambers also provided work for someone – this is not a moral or sound reason for allowing suffering.

    If you can, please boycott Canadian goods. It WILL make a difference. As things stand, Canada has placed itself alongside China as the cruelest and most self-serving nation.

  6. Tim:

    March 28th, 2006 at 4:51 pm

    Morrissey, of course, has no interest in making money whatsoever. Nor does he make use of any natural resources that cannot be harvested without perfect preservation of animal life. I wonder what fuels the jet he rides in from concert to concert? Nevermind, his enormous ego probably drives it.


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