These are my rebuttals to the most common reasons why seal clubbing is evil and should be illegal (or some variation of that)
But seals are defenseless! Baby seals can't run away or fight the hunters!
It's not like deer can do much against someone with a gun, or cows have chances to escape being butchered. And that's not just humans being jerks, do you think if wolves, bears, or any other predator found prey that couldn't fight or run away that they wouldn't gladly eat them until they adapted or went extinct?
But because of global warming seal population are declining so we shouldn't hunt them!
"Harp seal populations in the northwest Atlantic declined to approximately 2 million in the early 1970s, prompting stronger regulations. As a result the harp seal population in this area increased steadily until the mid 1990's, and was estimated at 5.9 million (between 4.6 and 7.2 million) in 2004. Harp seals have never been considered endangered. The Marine Animal Response Society estimates the