The Guardian summarises the Canadian responses to Paul and Heather McCartney’s campaign against seal clubbing, replete with a funny pic of H-Mac getting nipped by a harp seal. A worthy cause, in my book - I can see why people get annoyed by the celeb intrusion but I tend to think that the “there are better causes to support” argument that some of the people quoted used is sometimes fatuous: no one can support everything in one lifetime, after all, and why shouldn’t celebrities promote their own pet causes? (The point about overfishing of cod not getting enough attention, though, is a good one…)
Actually, the pic is just screaming to be captioned. Paul looks like he’s going all Henny Youngman: “take my wife - please!”
Tangentially, here’s a photo of one of my favourite T-shirts, combining an ostensible animal conservation message with a clubbing reference:
