Animal hunts
Sir,—This year was the first that the annual seal cull in Canada was virtually stopped. It appears that 160,000 seals were not killed be-, cause of the E.E.C. ban, thanks to the efforts of the International Fund for Animal Welfare. Last year this same team perpetrated the new law in the Philippines banning the dog meat trade. But there can be no letup in the team’s vigilante fight for animal rights. The latest campaign for the fund is the bloody wholesale massacre of the kangaroo in Australia. The reason these gentle creatures are slaughtered by the thousands is, like the seal hunt, greed, not necessity. Of course, here in New Zealand our own backyard needs cleaning up. What is the difference between vivisection in the laboratories and ruthless extermination of wildlife? — Yours, etc., KEVIN WATSON, LEONNE WATSON. June 17, 1983.
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