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Sunday 05.02.2012

SAVE THE BABY VEAL

The poster, SAVE THE BABY VEAL, is an attempt to counter the images put
forth by McCartney and other animal rights activists who have been campaigning against the harvesting of seals off the Newfoundland coast.

OTTAWA, ONTARIO (CANADA)A poster designed to counteract the photos of Sir Paul McCartney on the Newfoundland ice flows has been produced by an Ottawa graphic designer.



The poster, called SAVE THE BABY VEAL, is an attempt to counter the images put
forth by McCartney and other animal rights activists who have been campaigning against the harvesting of seals off the Newfoundland coast.

The creator of the poster, Murray Angus, said the poster's intent is to poke fun at those celebrities who are attracted to cute and cuddly seal pups by "reversing the judgemental roles."

"The deeper message," Angus said, "is that all cultures have a relationship
to animals, and that people in southern urbanized settings should not look down their noses at people whose cultures and economies are still closely tied to the harvesting of animals in the wild."

"There's a kind of cultural arrogance at play," he said.

Inuit don't participate in the Newfoundland seal hunt or anything equivalent to it, Angus noted, but their communities across the Arctic have been severely affected whenever animal rights protesters have been successful at reducing the market for seal pelts generally.

"The final message that the poster is intended to convey," Angus said, "is that people sympathetic to the animal rights movement should pause long enough to consider the impact of their actions on the peoples in the Arctic, and develop a more well-rounded perspective based on greater understanding of, and respect for, people as well as animals."