Restaurants that serve pork don’t get this kind of hatred, even though many pigs endure extreme restriction of movement during their lives, and typically endure a frightening truck ride to a slaughterhouse before death. Wild seals endure none of that. There’s no rational reason for people to get upset over seal meat when so many people eat other types of meat without problem.

All this stupidity inspired me to get some seal skin boots. They’re great – they were made in Canada (not an overseas sweat shop), are practical and warm for the subarctic climate I live in, and the animal they’re made from is an abundant one that was harvested from the wild (and wasn’t from a factory farm).