Transparency is probably the best way to deal with this problem, because if you just invite people and say, “Go to see for yourself and show me”, once again you have to be careful. The seal hunt in theory could be humane, but because people are living more with qualitative rather than quantitative pictures, that means that even if they have the 1% of the 0.5%, they're going to show that. It's just one second on the video.
As veterinarians, we are trying to reduce the probability of people shooting these kinds of pictures with video cameras. If we can promote training and education in the field to reduce this small percentage of the violation of suffering animals as much as we can, all these animal rights associations are going to have a very hard time finding pictures, and probably they're going to use old pictures, as they're doing right now. Because of the ice conditions we had this year, I would be very surprised if they had any video from 2006. They would have had to go too far away in a helicopter to get there.