So Danny wants to get rid of the hakapik. Why? Because this removes a visual weapon from the anti-seal harvest groups, he says. I see, is that what his advisors are telling him or is this his own brilliant thinking.
Have you noticed that despite the fact we have stopped the harvesting of white-coats that they appear in virtually all propoganda material of these groups? Have you noticed that when CTV or CBC national are heading up a seal story they still show the white-coat?
Then I heard Mark Small on the Fisheries Broadcast - he was very upset at the fact that Ottawa was appealing a court decision in favour of sealers. Right-on Mark, it is ridiculous, they will appeal a decision on sealers but will make a deal to avoid an appeal with the protest groups.
Any inch you give these groups they will take a mile. Danny get with it and start lobbying your buddy and ours - Loyola Hearn - to ban or severely restrict those who wish to interfere with the harvest. Stop eating your own Danny!
Here's a picture of an Albertan slaughter house killing cows.. Sorry can't find one!
Here's a picture of an Ontario slaughter house bleeding pigs...Sorry can't find one!
How to kill a chicken -
The time honored way to kill a chicken is to lay its head on a chopping block and chop it off. This method is quick and practical for the small flock owner.
Other good methods are as follows.
When butchering in larger numbers, chickens are usually hung by their feet, and a small, strong knife is used to cut the neck arteries. To accomplish this the chicken's head is held in one hand, and the knife is pushed into its mouth till the point reaches the juncture of head and neck, cutting through the arteries there. Another method, often included with this one, involves piercing the chicken's brain with the knife in one thrust, causing a muscular contraction that loosens the feathers. But the surgical accuracy required is beyond most people's capabilities.
Another practical, though uncommon, way to kill chickens is to dislocate or break their necks. This method is quick, easy, and foolproof -- good for those who have a poor aim with a hatchet. Stand on firm level ground. Hold the chicken by its feet with its head on the ground. Lay a broom-handle sized stick over its neck and stand on the stick to hold it down firmly. Pull up on the chicken's feet till the neck dislocates; this will be clearly felt. It is also possible to take off a young chicken's head with a hard pull. This may be disconcerting, but there will be no doubt that the chicken is dead. After dislocation, hold the chicken until it stops flapping, or lay it down where it will not bang into any thing. The movement quickly subsides and is not nearly as bizarre as a chicken running around after its head has been cut off. Ducks and other small poultry can also be killed by this method.
The chicken will be bled properly by dislocating the neck, because when the neck is dislocated the blood collects in the neck area and does not stay in the meat. There is no mess and the clot of blood in the neck can be added to other scraps for animal feed.
If blood is wanted for cooking, cut the head off immediately after it is dislocated. To collect the chicken's blood, immediately place the decapitated chicken neck down in a large funnel set in a container to catch the blood.
This from TOTSE
This piece from Wikipedia
A hakapik is a club, of Norwegian design, used for killing seals. The hakapik is a multipurpose hunting tool—a heavy wooden club, with a hammer head (used to crush a seal's skull), and a hook (used to drag away the carcass) on the end.
Regulation Canadian hakapiks are "105–153 cm long, with a metal ferrule with a slightly bent spike on one side and a blunt projection on the opposite side".
Although it is often claimed that the hakapik is inhumane, it is favored by sealers because it allows them to kill the seal without damaging the pelt. This is much more difficult to accomplish with a rifle. Further, studies by American veterinary experts on the use of the Hakapik on the seal hunt carried out on Pribilof Islands of Alaska had shown that it is an efficient tool designed to kill the animal quickly and humanely. [1] A report [2] by the Canadian Medical Veterinary Association in September 2002 corroborated this claim.
So Loyola what's the plan?
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