More than 300,000 seals are expected to be killed in this year's hunt alone

Canada's Seal Hunt: Cruel and Unnecessary

Target:
canada Prime minister Mr.Harper;Canada's Minister of International Trade, David Emerson
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It is during spring time when seals only two weeks to three months old are also mercilessly slaughtered for their pelts.

Seals are routinely clubbed or shot and left to suffer on the ice, then dragged over the sides of boats with sharpened metal hooks. Few sealers are observed checking to see if a seal is still alive before they skin it. Most of them are skinned alive.

This isnt killing for food or survival, its  killing for fashion.Support IFAW to stop seal hunting.


SHAME ON HUMANITY

For hunting small, unprotected newborn of any species. Most of them have opened their eyes for the first time.

It is during spring time when seals only two weeks to three months old are also mercilessly slaughtered for their pelts.

Seals are routinely clubbed or shot and left to suffer on the ice, then dragged over the sides of boats with sharpened metal hooks. Few sealers are observed checking to see if a seal is still alive before they skin it. Most of them are skinned alive.

This isnt killing for food or survival, its  killing for fashion.Support IFAW to stop seal hunting.


SHAME ON HUMANITY

For hunting small, unprotected newborn of any species. Most of them have opened their eyes for the first time.

Once more, Canadian fishermen are preparing for another commercial slaughter of baby seals. I have joined the millions of individuals worldwide in protesting this annual hunt.

"We the undersigned" are deeply opposed to Canada's annual cruel, wasteful, and unsustainable commercial slaughter of harp seal pups.

Harp seals are facing a new threat%u2014global warming%u2014which is resulting in dramatically reduced ice coverage in the Gulf of St Lawrence and off Newfoundland.

Your government is on record stating it will take %u2018real action%u2019 on global warming.  And yet you have ignored the one tangible action your government could take to combat the effects of global warming%u2014dramatically reducing the seal hunt quota. 

Apart from these serious conservation concerns shared by many Canadians, the seal hunt targets baby animals, a practice that is unacceptable to the majority of Canadians.  In the past two years, 98% of the seals killed have been less than three months old.  Severe cruelty has been witnessed and documented at the hunt during the past 30 years and incidents of cruelty are not decreasing.

This hunt only continues to exist because it is propped up by a range of government subsidies and tax-payers money.  More and more countries around the world are adopting legislation to ban the import of seal products.

Instead of investing in meaningful employment opportunities for Newfoundlanders, the federal government continues to fund and support a seasonal and wasteful seal hunt which draws national and international criticism to a proud region of Canada trying to build a reputation for high-tech research and first-class environmental tourism.

I urge you to act immediately to end this unnecessary cruelty to seals and to restore Canada's pride as a humane and ecologically responsible society.


Thank you for your time and consideration in this important matter.

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We signed the "Canada's Seal Hunt: Cruel and Unnecessary" petition!
# 890:
3:10 pm PST, Dec 30, Brittany Martin, Georgia
# 889:
5:28 am PST, Dec 3, Lavan Giri, India
# 888:
7:35 am PDT, Aug 30, L. T., California
# 887:
4:37 pm PDT, Aug 11, Name not displayed, Chile
# 886:
12:55 pm PDT, Jul 31, Greta Malkotzoglou, Greece
# 885:
4:45 pm PDT, Jul 11, Laurel Watson, Arizona
# 884:
9:47 am PDT, Jul 7, Paula Paz Higueras Hernández, Chile
NO MAS MATANZA!
# 883:
12:50 pm PDT, May 13, Tania Jeanne Mosier, Chile
What are we waiting to stop those BEAST that think they are human? They dont now that all they do againts seals and others its going to go again theirselfs.
# 882:
3:37 pm PDT, May 2, Rachel Brown, California
# 881:
2:54 pm PDT, May 2, Amber Parker, California
I just want to say that such cruelty to innocent seals should be punishable by law, not accepted. The fur industry is all about money, there isn't a need for it to survive. Above all the act itself is completely inhuman! It's brutal and disgusting! No animal should be skinned alive, nor should they be subjected to clubbings and left to die on the ice. Can't people see the slaughtering...it's murder! I say make it illegal now, crack down on those who disobey and give them a taste of their own medicine. At least lock them up and let them ponder these horrible acts against small innocent creatures. Seal hunters are the insignificant, not the seals.
# 880:
9:59 am PDT, Apr 29, Mary Orbison, New York
# 879:
6:17 pm PDT, Apr 28, Escanilla Matías, Chile
SHAME IN YOUR COUNTRY MR. HARPER!
# 878:
3:36 pm PDT, Apr 28, Terry L. west, West Virginia
# 877:
5:32 am PDT, Apr 26, Mehreen Mustafa, Pakistan
# 876:
9:19 am PDT, Apr 25, Dahiana Diaz, Chile
estoy en total desacuerdo ningun animal merece morir dejen a las focas en paz por la cresta!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! dejenlas vivir canadienses hijos de puta!!!!!!!
# 875:
9:48 am PDT, Apr 23, Roe Valinoti, New York
STOP THIS CRUELTY NOW!!!!
# 874:
12:45 pm PDT, Apr 21, Melinda Donka, Hungary
# 872:
2:18 pm PDT, Apr 20, Anita Donka, Hungary
What Canadians are doing is horrible! I don't know what is going on through these terrible people's minds to be willing to do something like that. Personally I think those people should be in jail. I am not wearing animal skin. I have never, and I am never going to!!!!!!!!!!
# 871:
3:11 pm PDT, Apr 18, Maria Vidal, Mexico
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# 869:
2:32 pm PDT, Apr 15, Name not displayed, Chile
# 868:
6:31 am PDT, Apr 15, Katerine Rivera, Chile
# 867:
10:54 pm PDT, Apr 14, Kim Meagher, Canada
# 866:
12:18 pm PDT, Apr 13, Name not displayed, Texas
# 865:
5:01 pm PDT, Apr 12, Roxanne Traviss, Illinois
The ending of this barbaric hunt is way overdue. Make it a true baby nursery where those little babies can be nurtured and live in peace as God created it to be. Starvos Dimas is in charge of the European Union and his vote to ban all seal products will end this hunt because that freakin canadian goverment does not care that 85% of it citizens are against it. How about we club the minister of fishery and oceans Hearns over the head, hook him over the side of a boat skin him alive and then say well it was humane right we just had one too many politicans? He just had the Sea Sheperd boat arrested today because they were taking pictures of the slaughter of these poor babies, because they were endangering the sealers? Screw that I hope all the ice breaks under everyone one of those sealers as they go to hurt a baby seal. This whole thing makes me sick, I don't know why Starvos has to wait till summmer to make a decision on the seal products why have all those babies who cannot even swim away suffer at the hands of those baby killers i hope everyone one of them and their families rot in hell.
# 864:
10:15 am PDT, Apr 12, Claudia Diaz osses, Chile
detengan esta injusta matanza todos tenemos derecho a vivir, las focas son tan bellos animales que no deben ser asesinadas por su piel.
# 863:
7:16 am PDT, Apr 12, Terri Banuelos, Arizona
# 862:
4:32 pm PDT, Apr 11, Anne Martinez, Arizona
# 861:
3:25 pm PDT, Apr 10, Name not displayed, Canada
Where can I begin humanity has lost its dignity while canadians continue this hunt baby seals image a desperate creature looking at you with gentle eyes you couldn't harm it.... stop the hunt
# 860:
3:27 am PDT, Apr 10, Monolina De, India
we need to show some repect for these innocent creatures... we are after all the most superior creation of the Almighty!
# 859:
7:49 pm PDT, Apr 9, Courtney Lockwood, California
# 858:
2:15 pm PDT, Apr 9, Patricia Johnson, California
It's hard to believe that after all these years this atrocity is still happening.I know we are a more compassionate people than this indicates. Please let us prove it now.
# 857:
7:23 am PDT, Apr 9, Jean Paul Yañez Castillo, Chile
el respeto a los animales debe ser una prioridad la industria peletera es una verdadera masacre de la que muchos animales son asesinados como las focas en canada con sangre se han manchado, con sangre pagaran,la muerte de animales es acto criminal!!!
# 856:
7:57 pm PDT, Apr 8, Evelyn Antillanca, Chile
paren esta matanza indiscriminada.. acaso creen que esto es un juego? las focas son animales preciosos que deben estar protegidos y no asesinados por esta gente que no es capaz de razonar que los animales tambien sufren.. POR FAVOR PAREN ESTOS ASESINATOS SIN RAZON!!!!
# 855:
1:27 pm PDT, Apr 8, Sara Mier quintas, Spain
# 854:
3:58 am PDT, Apr 8, Natasha Vuletich, Kuwait
STOP KILLING THE SEALS.THEY DESERVE TO LIVE.WE DONT HAVE THE RIGHT TO TAKE THEIR LIFES AWAY FROM THEM.
# 853:
8:17 pm PDT, Apr 7, Tamara Berrios, Chile
y ke pasa kon las firmas ? ya a nadie le interesa?
# 852:
6:16 pm PDT, Apr 7, María Eugenia Uribe, Mexico
# 851:
5:36 pm PDT, Apr 7, Cony Ferrada, Chile
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