Corner Brook -
Canadian-born actress Pamela Anderson made some noise in the news last week when she said she was ashamed of her native land because it allows the commercial seal hunt to continue. The actress says she wants to save Canada more embarrassment over what she calls a "barbaric massacre."
How Anderson knows the hunt is barbaric is questionable.
She did take her road show to Halifax a few years ago but we doubt she got close to any heaving ice floes or watched the hunt in first-hand. Like many celebrities, Anderson is being brainwashed by the propaganda being spouted by animal rights groups who are most interested in raising money.
They shade the facts to suit themselves, and take all the help they can get from movie stars who know more about California sunshine than scraping a living in the extremes of the North Atlantic.
Anderson might be advised to use her goodwill in other places where they would be more productive.
For one, children are starving by the thousands in Africa where a drought has devastated crops and killed domestic animals.
We're sure those sad human beings would be more than glad to have Anderson and her glitzy pals put their power behind any attempts to feed the starving on that continent.
As for the seals - they don't need anyone to look after them. They count in the millions right now, and if the seal hunt disappears, they will quickly multiply into millions more.
There is plenty of evidence the seal hunt is humane. The same word can't be used to describe any of the countless other tragic disasters in this world of ours.
