It is indeed, I get so busy this time of year! I liek to do my bit. I do loads on myspace, there's tons of groups on there.

All we can do to change the world is our best. I admire you for doing your best effort in the battle that matters to you. Don't get upset or frustrated--just keep doing your best. In the end it will matter to others because it matters to you. Do it with love and enthusiasm and you make the largest difference. People change not becasue they are hated or made to feel guilty, but because they want to see themselves as good, or admired. This is why they wear the furs to begin with. You knew this.

People forget, so your efforts are not in vain, yet what energy you expend will permiate the whole and affect those sitting on the fence of inaction. Be patient, this type of change takes time.

What efforts you expend in this battle will define you. I see a strong woman with guts, smarts, compassion and determination. I admire those qualities in a woman.

Very kind words, thanku!
I do get quite upset, but I try my best1 lol.

I just asked a Norwegian I know whose father hunts baby seals why they club them and he laughed and said "it's more fun"...

Thanks for that info! I was just about to order some cosmetics from one of those companies, now instead I will be emailing them telling them why they won't be getting my money.

That's wonderful! Already we're makin a diff, but spread the word and try to get other people to boycott too. some people boycott Canada completely, travel, products, they say hit them where it hurts!

som stuff on who processes pelts, boycott them too:
"WHO PROCESSES THE PELTS & HOW?

There are only a few major processing companies. Atlantic Marine Products ( PO Box 39, Main St., Catalina, NL, Canada A0C 1J0, Tel: (709) 469-2849, Fax: (709) 469-3211, Contact: Chris Pilgrim. Sales manager: Martin Duchesne, 709-785-7387, aag819@thezone.net; Plant manager: Dean Russell, 709-469-2849, cell 709-468-6347), the second largest, is a subsidiary of the Barry Group (one of the largest seafood companies in Atlantic Canada) and has a plant in Catalina, Newfoundland .

ATLANTIC MARINE PRODUCTS now sells over 100,000 pelts each year. They are capable of processing up to about 150,000 pelts in their Catalina plant.

Another processor, CARINO COMPANY LTD., (P.O. Box 6146, St. John's, NL,Canada A1C 5X8, Tel: (709) 582-2100, Fax: (709) 582-2487, Contact: John Kearley), which is owned by a Norwegian corporation, has a plant in a sealing town called South Dildo, Newfoundland. (We are not making this up!) The plant is located in a small industrial complex next to a fish processing plant. There, employees make great efforts to maintain a low profile, worrying that any attention they get will be negative. There are no signs that say "Carino" on their building.

The processing of the pelts requires more than a month and involves several steps. Each pelt is approximately 3-4 feet long by 2-3 feet wide. The usual process involves soaking them in brine for several weeks and then tanning them, but the pelts can be stored for several months in brine without any degradation. Some of the pelts are also dyed. After the pelts are tanned, they sell them to brokers, who in turn sell them to fur coat and accessory manufacturers in China and other countries in the Far East, Russia, Siberia, and Western Europe (see table above).

We have heard that thousands of excess pelts are stacked in warehouses throughout eastern Canada and Norway. This may or may not be true (we are currently trying to verify its accuracy), but if we consider that over 300,000 seals were killed in 2002 and only about 85,000 pelts were exported, according to government statistics, the question remains, "What happened to the rest?" One Atlantic Marine Products brochure states ,"We keep our warehouse well stocked at all times…" Perhaps that's their way of looking at the bright side..."

(http://www.harpseals.org/hunt/pelts.html)

Thanks for the positivity u guys. As the time of the hunt approaches, I have an awful lot of emotional stuff on my plate, and so it's bloody hard to get that image out of my mind!

The hunt's begun people, hope u'll still keep helping, it's still important even now and for the future.

I'm going to watch tv to distract myself, I've been getting seal hunt update emails and it's upsetting...
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Are you for abortion?

^^ SUCH an intelligent and legitimate question, since clubbing a living breathing seal to death is exactly the same as aborting a dependent fetus.
And the reasons are exactly the same too.
A seal is clubbed to death to make rich people a pretty coat, and a fetus is aborted because the mother can't/won't care for it, or because her own life is in danger.
Very simular indeed.

No not really.