Killing of any animals is horrible. Unless you are in a survival situation it's completely unnecessary. 

As someone that lives in the artic I must disagree. I'm not really sure how serious you are since you compare it to eating babies and whatnot, but it's not any more barbaric than eating any other animal.

Unnecessary hurt to the animals is just that, unnecessary, of cource. Here in norway we don't pratice clubbing to my knowledge, I can't imagine so at least since we have pretty strickt rules for animal rights (an animal police and stuff as well).

My friends that live on farms used to have cows and sheeps as pet animals, and they are amazing and cosy animals just like seals. But in the end they as every other animal breed for meat was slaughtered. If anything I think you have a very limited view on animal rights if you think that one kind of animal should be protected because they are nice, as if that wasn't the rule with almost all of them. Good to see that you care about animal cruelty though, but that's a very different story than commercial seal hunting. It's also important to understand why different cultures do what they do, and not just write it of as something idiotic right out of the gate.

As soon as people get hurt, it's a different story. But that isn't the case here. 

I expected this to be about people citing Amazon bestseller rankings.

Won't happen. People are to lazy and selfish.

I can blame them cause they can eat plenty of other things. You're telling me that the only thing to eat up there are seals? That's ridiculous. That's like saying "I'm hungry, there isn't any food in the house, but there will be in maybe 2 or 3 hours, but LOOK there's a booger in my nose, let me eat that for the time being". It's mean.

With all due respect, but I think you should look into the matter as well. These seals are mostly hunted for sport and for fun. Seal clubbing is a national pass time for some people, and thousands are murdered for their fur, and they're left on the ice to die alone and cold.

1. Dogs can also eat anything else too. They're experienced hunters.

2. Well fish lay thousands of babies at a time. They're billions upon billions! and they're also not as intelligent as seals.

3. If another animal eats them so be it! But we're humans. We can compromise. We don't need to hunt them just because.

Ka-pi96 said: Anyways, can't really agree with the OP anymore. Beating an animal to death just because is really bad, obviously. But killing it for food, providing it's done in a humane way and isn't an endangered animal... I've no problem with that. Seals aren't special just because they're seals. Same for cats/dogs, if people want to eat them then they should go right ahead. I wouldn't, seems pretty gross to me, but I also won't criticise those that do (not saying I won't mock them though )

So clubbing an animal with a spike bat is humane? Yeah okay! And anyone who eats cats or dogs should be strapped to a bed and given medicine. That's sick!

We're not talking about commerical hunting.