AC, you're completely entitled to your own opinion, but all you're basically saying is that you don't care if animals are brutally clubbed and skinned, only for their fur. A true animal lover would be appalled by this practice and would at least sign a petition to stop it. With the advances in textiles and clothing, there is no need to use animal fur any more. Synthetic fur has been proven to be more durable and retain more heat than animal fur. I don't know why the Humane Society did not attend the talks on the Seal slaughter, probably because it wasn't going to change anything. The reason that protestors are so loud and rowdy, is because it's one of the ways to get people's attention. When animals are being clubbed to death right in front of them, it's going to give rise to some emotions. The Propaganda machine as you called it, is there for a good reason. It is one way to educate the public about cruelty towards animals. Like how live puppies and kittens are being used as shark bait in France, or how the Bush Meat trade in Africa is drastically reducing the primate populations, or how the Asian black market shark fin industry is catching sharks, cutting off their fins and throwing them back into the water alive, or how drift nets catch and kill EVERYTHING in their paths, and so on and so on. All of the Hunters and Fisherman I know, think all of these practices, including the Seal slaughter, are wrong.
The ignorance and apathy and empty arguments are why this sick practice continues. It is also why many of the Earth's animals, like Rhinos and Sharks, are slowly disappearing. Also, calling it a Seal "hunt" is laughable, they are walking up to them and beating them to death. That's not hunting, that's "shooting fish in a barrel". If you can give one reasonable argument for why this cruel slaughter should continue, and please don't say that it's the only way those "hunters" can make a living, I would like to hear it. Educate me, open my eyes.