Namibia seal industry sources: 'The cull will go ahead'
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Windhoek - Namibia's seal-hunting season opened on Wednesday despite efforts by South African animal rights activists to stop the annual cull of the Cape Fur seals along the south-west African country's coast, industry insiders said Thursday. While there has so far been no culling activity, industry sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, told the German Press Agency
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revenge
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angus ,
Thu, 09 Jul 2009 06:36:53 GMT
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the seals will have there revenge http://bit.ly/5rI9W
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R.E. comment by carla meyer
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Scott Ruskowsky ,
Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:22:38 GMT
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Do you understand the what culling means ?If hunans donot intervene these seals will die painful deaths normally from starvation or diseae associated with a over population -I perfer culling to a cruel death by mother nature
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The culling of Seals.
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Carla Meyer ,
Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:13:48 GMT
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What is with this Culling? First is Canada, now it's Namibia! What have these Seals done to deserve this kind of Murder, except to live! Let Nature look into this and leave these animals alone! Please!!! God is watching you and what you do to the Seals. You do to yourselves.
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