Letter to the Editor: Hunt's to blame

Dear Editor:
The misfortune of the seal hunt is not the fault of Paul McCartney or animal rights groups, but on the hunt itself. Activists make great scapegoats but the hunt has been documented, the brutal chaos enshrined in photos, on video and in eyewitness accounts. Inuit economic devastation comes not from activists, but is a product of the larger commercial hunt. The senseless slaughter of hundreds of thousands of days-old baby seals is a crime to which all but the government and the slaughterers will admit. Seal is neither necessary nor desirable to much of the world. Combined with callous disregard for suffering, it is small wonder sealing is causing deep sorrow in Canada's north. So do not blame McCartney or the animal advocates whose compassion has grown to encompass all forms of life, but the commercial savagery that brings misery on us all.