I Demand An End to The Seal Hunt now.I am petitioning the Prime Minister of Canada.

  • by: Karey Materi
  • recipient: I am petitioning the Prime Minister of Canada.

People should sign this so we can come together as a strong group and bring about change, and change the law,so it will be against the law to hunt precious, innocent, and non-threatening seals. We as Canadians should be horrified at ourselves that we allow precious seals to hunted be on our land.Canadian government statistics confirm more than 97 percent of the seals killed in the past five years have been babies less than three months of age, and the majority has been just one month old or less. At the time of slaughter, many of these pups have not yet eaten their first solid meal or taken their first swim, leaving them utterly defenseless against the sealers. The baby seals are killed for their fur and their carcasses are routinely left to rot on the ice. HSI video evidence shows wounded baby seals left to suffer in agony, conscious seals pup sliced open or impaled on metal hooks and dragged across the ice, and seals killed with illegal weapons. Our footage has prompted governments around the world to take action to ban their trades in seal products, and Canadian veterinary experts to call the seal hunt "inherently inhumane

Update #28 years ago
Each year, the Canadian government gives hunters the green light to bludgeon to death hundreds of thousands of baby harp seals. During the slaughter, baby seals are shot or repeatedly clubbed. Sealers bludgeon the animals with clubs and “hakapiks” (metal-hook–tipped clubs) and drag the seals—who are often still conscious—across the ice floes with boat hooks.

Hunters toss dead and dying seals into heaps and leave their carcasses to rot on the ice floes because there is no market for seal meat.
Update #18 years ago
Canadian government statistics confirm more than 97 percent of the seals killed in the past five years have been babies less than three months of age, and the majority has been just one month old or less. At the time of slaughter, many of these pups have not yet eaten their first solid meal or taken their first swim, leaving them utterly defenseless against the sealers.
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