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Stop the Seal Hunt
Target: Stephen Harper, Prime Minister and Michael Wilson, Ambassador to the United States
Sponsored by: International Fund for Animal Welfare
Sponsored by: International Fund for Animal Welfare
This year the Canadian government promised a more humane hunt. They said "Canada's seal hunt is humane, sustainable and responsible." They lied.
IFAW Hunt Observers were on the ground and in the air documenting the hunt since it opened on the 28th of March. Only days into the hunt they captured on camera instances where animals were shot and clearly left to suffer. They witnessed live seals hooked and dragged across the ice. And in one of the more disturbing moments they watched as a sealer wrote an expletive on the ice while a recently clubbed seal behind him started to move...obviously still alive.
Is this the Canadian government's idea of a more humane hunt? Please urge the Canadian Prime Minister and Canadian Ambassador to end the cruelty of the seal hunt. Take action today!
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Show some humanity prime minister and stop this evil and insane practice of seal hunting in your country. Be unique...show some compassion.
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Canada likes to present itself as one of the best countries to live-that we are a just and fair nation-showing compassion to the less fortunate-this is a black mark against Canada and the bad press we continue to receive from all over the world should be enough to show that this is not a practice that should continue--please show compassion on these beautiful little creatures and stop this brutal and cruel slaughtering of seals!!
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Focus: Animal Welfare Action Request: Write E-Mail Location: Canada (ALSO POSTED ON BILLBOARD) As a Canadian, I am disgusted with the Seal hunt as well as the charges be laid against "Sea Shepherd Conservation Society", namely in this issue, the "Farley Mowat" to which the Canadian government is wanting to press charges against, mainly by the minister in charge of Oceans and Fisheries. The Minister To contact the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, please send an e-mail message to: E-Mail: Min@dfo-mpo.gc.ca (Please include your postal and e-mail address) Or write to: The Honourable Loyola Hearn HOUSE OF COMMONS Minister of Fisheries and Oceans Parliament Buildings, Wellington Street Ottawa, Ontario Canada, K1A 0A6 The Department For questions or comments of a general nature regarding Fisheries and Oceans Canada or this Web site, please contact: Fisheries and Oceans Canada Communications Branch 200 Kent Street 13th Floor, Station 13228 Ottawa, Ontario Canada K1A 0E6 Tel: 613-993-0999 Facsimile: 613-990-1866 TTY: 1-800-465-7735 E-Mail: info@dfo-mpo.gc.ca (Please include your postal and e-mail address) Other Regions Pacific Region Fisheries and Oceans Canada Suite 200 - 401 Burrard Street Vancouver, B.C. V6C 3S4 Telephone: 604-666-0384 Facsimile: 604-666-1847 Central and Arctic Region Fisheries and Oceans Canada 501 University Crescent Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 2N6 Telephone: 204-983-5000 Facsimile: 204-984-2401 Gulf Region Fisheries and Oceans Canada P.O. Box 5030 Moncton, New-Brunswick E1C 9B6 Telephone: 506-851-6227 Fax: 506-851-2435 Quebec Region Fisheries and Oceans Canada 104 Dalhousie Street Quebec, Quebec G1K 7Y7 Telephone: 418-648-7747 Facsimile: 418-648-7718 Maritimes Region Fisheries and Oceans Canada P.O. Box 1035 Dartmouth, Nova Scotia B2Y 4T3 Telephone: 902-426-3550 Facsimile: 902-426-5995 Newfoundland and Labrador Region Fisheries and Oceans Canada P.O. Box 5667 St. John's, Newfoundland A1C 5X1 Telephone: 709-772-4423 Facsimile: 709-772-4880 As a Canadian who 150% supports the great work Sea Shepherd does in protecting Whales from being harpooned and all oceanic life in general, I feel very strongly they we and/or those of us who feel strongly about this mater from the hideous seal slaughter to this ridiculous issue toward a great not for profit organization that as far as I am concerned, did nothing wrong, please see copy and pasted news story below; Please email, call, or do anything you can to defend the work of those involved in the protection of seals and all marine life from being brutally slaughtered for whatever reasons. It's time the Canadian government started to listen instead of not even attempting too. So in the spirit of animal protection and welfare, I ask you join me in contacting the Ministers office here in Ottawa ON and/or write as well too display the level of anger I know many feel about this. It is an insult to injury to hear that Canada's minster of fisheries is pressing charges against Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. I would also ask that you visit them online and show your support for the wonderful work they do for all marine life that depends on us to speak and yes, act in any way we can, to assist in the stoppage of this and any other disgusting action taken brutally against marine life of any kind. First, the article below; Minister says seal hunt protesters to be charged Updated Thu. Apr. 3 2008 11:27 PM ET CTV.ca News Staff Seal hunt protesters who claim their ship was intentionally rammed by a Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker, will be the ones to face charges, said Fisheries Minister Loyola Hearn. Crew aboard the Farley Mowat, a vessel owned by the conservation group the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, said the icebreaker Des Groseilliers smashed into their vessel twice last weekend in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. On the society's website, Sea Shepherd founder Paul Watson claims Hearn is "weaving a very tangled web" with his version of events and crew have captured the incident on video, proving they were not at fault. "The Canadian government is abusing their authority," Watson told CTV Atlantic Thursday, adding that if his ship had rammed the coast guard vessel, action would have been taken immediately by the authorities. The video does not seem to confirm or deny either side's interpretation of the events. Both vessels are traveling at low speeds and when the ships scrape into each other, it is not clear which ship's direction instigated the minor collisions. Watson said that the Farley Mowat suffered some hull plate damage and they were considering legal action against the Canadian government. Hearn said the ship ignored Coast Guard warnings to stay away from sealers on the ice north of Cape Breton, and thus broke the law. "They've been very cute. These people are smart. They've been around. They know the law. They know how they can flaunt it,'' said Hearn in an interview with radio station VOCM. "However, they push it and in some cases, recently, they've broken it. They cannot approach within half a mile of our sealers. They have done that.'' 'Insensitive comments' In his phone interview with CTV, Watson repeated and defended his controversial comments about the deaths of four sealers, who died when their boat capsized during a coast guard tow last week. In a statement made shortly after the men's deaths, he said sealers are "baby killers" . . . "who are seeking sympathy because some of their own died." Watson defended those comments, saying seals are no different than human beings. "The deaths of the sealers is a tragedy but I do believe the deaths 325,000 seals overall is far greater tragedy," Watson said. "That's like saying the murder of one person is less a tragedy than the murder of a million." "When I went to biology class, I was taught we were all animals." When asked if he thought his comments were insensitive to the families of the perished sealers in the Iles-de-la-Madeleine, he said "those people haven't exercised much sensitivity towards us or seals." "The last time I was (there), those people beat the crap out of me." The confrontation The Coast Guard's version of the clash is that the Farley Mowat "grazed" the 98-metre Des Groseilliers twice, but that no major collision took place. Hearn has said the group was trying to provoke a confrontation. "They have endangered our sealers. We are aware of that. We have these facts documented,'' said Hearn. Prior to the clash, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society was warned by Transport Minister Lawrence Cannon they would be in violation of international maritime laws of they entered Canadian waters to protest the seal hunt. But the ship came anyway, with the society claiming the 54-metre Farley Mowat is a registered European yacht and not subject to the same laws as commercial vessels. "As long as we stay outside the 12-mile limit (of Canadian waters), we have a right to be there," Watson said. _________________________________ Please visit Sea Shepherd Conservation Society as well to show your support in any way you can. They can be reached at: http://www.seashepherd.org/ _________________________________ Thanks for making a difference, let show the Canadian government they are not listening and that many others are and have and are not willing to just stand by while there bold and cowardly killing spree of seals continues to stain our arctic land with innocent blood. Peace, Nick
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Why kill seals or are they just an easy target to make money? Of course the shame of it is that it’s isn’t necessary but perhaps it’s the barbarity of it all that turns some people on after all they are an easy target. I..
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Why not!?!
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This is a horrible and heinous act that should never have taken place to begin with. I think the hunting of seals is just disgusting. What have these poor seals done to you to deserve such treatment? How would you like it if you were hunted down just for living, THIS IS A TRAVESTY!!!!
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it is making me sick,stop the killing!! start the loving!!!
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Killing any kind of animal should be illegal,I have seen how people kill seals and its horrifying. Do they hunt for food because if they don't then hunting seals should be banned.
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Stop murder of innocent baby seals! this practice is disgrace to your country!
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I am appalled to be Canadian!! This is not what I would normally say as Canada is one of the best countries in the world but this is a disgusting act and a horrible representation of our country. We are supposed to be peacekeepers not violent offenders!
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disgusting! Don't delude yourself saying that this hunt is humane! No hunting is humane at all!!! Can't you do without killing those innocent animals? How would you feel if you were stabbed by a murderer or psycho? Don't you have any pity on these animals? The money and profit you make out of these animals is bloody and cursed and might be your future medical expense!
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If you don't help this is going to keep on haunting you forever.
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The vicious clubbing and murder of seals will haunt you for a lifetime. Their blood is on your hands!
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Would you want to be shot and left to suffer just because someone could make money off of you?
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Why these horrors ?
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