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"So, after they club the animal a couple times, then they hook it and then throw it into an area, and then, later on, they do skin the animal. And veterinarian reports indicate that a high percentage of them are skinned before they're killed."
Humane Society of the US senior vice-president Wayne Pacelle on the Canadian seal hunt, on "The O'Reilly Factor", Fox News Network (US), July 11, 2003. For the uninitiated, the veterinarian reports referred to are a fabrication.

"The Newfoundland sealers have a game called head hockey where they use a baby seal's head instead of a puck. These games will provide us with an international peg to hang our message that the cruel, wasteful, economically insignificant slaughter of seals must end."
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society founder and president "Captain" Paul Watson, in the media release "Sea Shepherd Calls for a Boycott of the 2010 Canadian Winter Olympics," July 3, 2003. For the uninitiated, this is a complete lie.

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