So, what makes seals so much different from say, pigs? Pigs are very social and friendly too, yet we eat them all the time. I personally think that we eat too much meat, mainly because the more meat we eat the more land that is needed to breed/raise the animals, which causes environmental problems, but there are places like the arctic where agriculture is virtually impossible.

Well, as long as you aren't eating micro sized pigs, then I think it's okay, because pigs are becoming popular animals. However, big farm pigs, they're different. I'm not saying it's okay, but we eat pigs.. Most countries in the world eat pig. Only like a few thousand eat seals. Most people would vomit if seal was on their plate.  But I'm for eating less meat. I think we rely way too much on meat. Perhaps potatoes and cherries? I love those.

Can't blame Inuits for doing it but trophy hunting is indeed gross.

I invite you to educate yourself on the matter before you pass judgement so quickly, many people in the High Arctic have relied on these animals for thousands of years for food and other uses. Some communities are too isolated from the rest of the world that they don't have much choice in the matter, it's not like those people hunt seals for fun.

The only people I believe who eat seals are Inuits. Seals are their major source of food for themselves and their dogs.

I find it weird how you have no problem with eating fish (which are declining in popularity), but God save the few thousand seals who were going to be eaten either way!

Those seals would die somehow. If an inuit doesn't eat them, then they'll be eaten by another animal, starve, or just die from age or something else. That's how nature works.

I'm completely against killing seals for trophy-related reasons (competitive hunting itself is a disgusting industry), but blaming humans and animals for acting the way they're supposed to be is quite strange.


Seals are great targets for inuits. Unlike us, they don't waste thousands of acres of land for them. They also don't:

1. Require thousands of gallons of water for the meat to be cleansed

2. Need to be fed

3. Selectively bred and trapped in a factory

That's rather great. They're taking advantage of the food chain and not harming the Earth significantly. Or would you rather have us waste even MORE space to eat the lowly animals we eat without any issue?

Bon appetite

this is such a horror... of course it has to stop, it's 2017 we live in

I thought the main reason was for the wool and not for eating? maybe I'm wrong

I won't criticize the fact that seal are killed for food, if they are for food, but the cruelty of how they are killed (hit with a club on the head and suffer in their own blood until)

I'm sure many do it as hobby, cause they simply enjoy violence, and this is legal violence :'(

It's always problematic when someone wants to judge other people from a whole other culture. Yes, people eat seals and it's totally normal for them. There are also parts in the world where people indeed eat cats and dogs. Meanwhile Indian people look with disgust at the west and just can't get their head around why people here eat cows.

We just shouldn't judge about the culture from other places, we have no right to do that.

I completely disagree, we should judge. Especially when it has to do with how people are treated.

Many Indians don't eat beef for religious/spiritual reasons.

We have domesticated animals (that are not in danger of becoming extinct anytime soon) for our food, that is where it needs to be for a meat hungry population, anything else has to be judged harshly