I’ve read some really stupid articles but this one wins the Nobel Prize!
Will that be a seal of approval or a seal of disapproval?
There it was – a large photo of Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff, mouth half-open, poised to consume a cracker and topping.
But this was no average appetizer. This was a piece of seal meat, reduced in port and wrapped in bacon. Ignatieff pronounced it “gamey” but good. (Frankly, we suspect the fishy-tasting seal meat had to be boiled in alcohol and wrapped in bacon to be edible. But that’s one for the Taste pages.)
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But, if we had our druthers, we’d rather have some curried chicken on Melba toast.
Notes:
So just “what the hell” is the big difference between a seal and a chicken? I’ll tell you!
Nothing.
“Nada”
“Zip”.
They both taste great and as a point:
What about chickens?
Don’t they count?
Are they second class food fit only for cannibals?
Shouldn’t PETA get behind chickens (pissing myself laughing)?
After all, we kill and eat a lot more chickens than we do seals and chickens matter (if you believe PETA).
Chickens scream “Go Jack”…..
And everyone else is “mind boggled”.
What the hell have seals to do with chickens?
A lot.
I’m out to save chickens. Billions of them. Chickens are very important just like seals. And humans should not be eating them.
What about their eggs? Killing baby chickens?
How do you like me now?
Hello PETA — real important stuff here. Where’s Obama when you need him?
I know. He’s eating them — morning noon and supper. And when asked he will scream “What chicken”?
“I hate chicken” even as he holds up a drumstick to his face and bites again.
Scary stuff for chickens and if people pick up Obama will never eat chicken again because he has to think about chicken.
It’s a big deal.
The real die-hard PETA types do want to save the chickens, Jack. They’re dedicated vegans and eat no animal products and that includes fish. Don’t believe me?
http://www.peta.org/sea_Kittens/about.asp
Yet they are deaf to the silent cries of the carrots and the weeping of the tomatoes…
Oh don’t worry Jack, PETA is on the chicken thing – I used to live near a KFC here in Ottawa and it wasn’t unusual to see them out on the sidewalk condemning the treatment of factory raised chickens .
The biggest problem you’ll have is that regardless of how they’re raised chickens just ain’t cute and cuddly – a friend of mine who spoofed the anti-sealing idiots by mounting a “Save the Baby Veal” campaign with posters of a barnyard calf on them just didn’t gather any attention.
I’m more concerned about saving all those silicone (im)PLANTS that Pamela Anderson has been swallowing. I dont know how she bares it all up.
Again, my apologies to Jacks sensitive female viewers.
I wouldn’t mind trying seal although I hear it’s not very tasty. The idea that the kill is providing jobs is kind of ridiculous. The govt pays to subsidize the hunt for a product that very few people seem to want. Meanwhile over in Europe they’re busy banning the import of a product that almost nobody has any interest in importing anyway. The only real winner in all of this is PETA who rakes in millions in donations from people who feel bad for the cuddly little defenseless seals.
I understand that seal populations had some negative impact of the east coast cod
numbers.
Every year in the spring the seals feast on salmon smolts heading out to the ocean and every late summer and fall they feast on the returning adult fish. Just like clockwork and it has severely reduced the salmon populations in the numerous rivers that merge and enter the ocean at Courtenay. They tried a fence to keep the seals
out but all it did was slow up the salmon and make it easier for the seals to get them.
DFO wanted to do a cull but the seal lovers had the press on their side.
mid island mike