"Friends" of Seals but not Fish - the usual silliness of single-issue animal welfare campains

So, I got myself involved in a back-and-forth on Twitter, like you do, with the twitter spokesbot for an ostensibly grassroots animal welfare, single-issue group calling for (wait for it) yet another boycott of Canadian seafood as the "only" way to end the Canadian seal hunt.
Never mind that the seal hunt has been going on for decades, and various boycotts of various Canadian products, including seafood, have also gone on for decades.

The underlying message, of course, is this:

• Don't upset non-vegans who might be moved to support us if we show pictures of cute, fluffy seal pups, but who still think nothing of eating fish (and cows, and chickens, and pigs, and...)
• The lives of marine mammals are significant. The lives of other marine animals are inconsequential.

This is part and parcel of the blantant speciesism that rules the entire animal welfare movement. Particularly glaring was this bit:

@wchanley The seal massacre is the largest marine mammal slaughter on the planet. If you don't want to be involved with any of the many people working to stop it, you don't have to. http://www.twitlonger.com/show/6ot6vi

...because, as usual, animal welfare advocates who still eat, wear and use animals can't handle the disconnect in their actions being pointed out, so anyone calling for ethical consistency must be doing "nothing."

How about promoting veganism full stop, instead of promoting fish consumption from other markets?

How about expanding your compassion beyond marine mammals you find cute?

Either you mean it or you don't: either you care about animals, all animals, not just the cute ones, or you're doing this to soothe your own ego.

Animal welfare groups, it's time to stop dithering. Stop indulging in mixed messages. Stop focusing on just animals you find cute, and ignoring so-called "food" animals.