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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

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!

deadline: Ongoing...
goal: 50,000

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Dear [Decision Maker]

I am deeply opposed to Canada's annual cruel, wasteful, and unsustainable commercial slaughter of harp seal pups.

Harp seals are facing a new threat -- global warming -- which 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 "real action" on global warming. And yet you have ignored the one tangible action your government could take to combat the effects of global warming -- dramatically 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.

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We signed the “Stop the Seal Hunt” letter!

# 52,600:

10:19 pm PDT, Jul 12, Name not displayed, Canada
Hunting seals is cruel and barbaric.

# 52,599:

6:50 pm PDT, Jul 12, Danny Mathias, Canada

# 52,598:

1:59 pm PDT, Jul 12, Maria A, Lebanon
i think such a thing is for people who have serious mental issues.. this is pathetic, absurd & plain sick..

# 52,597:

1:30 pm PDT, Jul 12, Lauren Starr, Georgia
is this killing needed especially in such a barbaric way? Who are these monsters that think it's ok to bash in the head of a baby seal? They are cold hearted killers that need to be stopped!

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11:43 am PDT, Jul 12, Virginia Canino, New Jersey
I'm so upset that this atrocity goes on. As an educator, I have all of my students working on this issue and I am begging my friends to ski at home and forget Canada until your policy changes.

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9:16 am PDT, Jul 12, Susan Bull, Canada

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3:12 am PDT, Jul 12, Maren Tietgen, Germany

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11:02 pm PDT, Jul 11, Aline Cortese, California

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8:35 pm PDT, Jul 11, Jocelyn Bates, Kansas

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6:49 pm PDT, Jul 11, Laura Kowal, Michigan

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5:46 pm PDT, Jul 11, Steve Garron, Virginia

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2:17 pm PDT, Jul 11, Kerstin Lange, Germany
Why? What a dispensable question... Why not? That is the question!!!

# 52,588:

12:23 pm PDT, Jul 11, Christina Catalano, New Jersey
You do not have a right to take away any freedoms or rights: neither human or animal's. If this is not stopped immediately, I will find a way to stop this.

# 52,587:

10:26 am PDT, Jul 11, Alana Camina, New Jersey

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5:08 am PDT, Jul 11, Monica Salvitti, Italy

# 52,585:

11:57 pm PDT, Jul 10, Tiffany Meininger, Nebraska

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8:44 pm PDT, Jul 10, Larteau Sophie, Canada
You are just nothing to do what you do... What`s it`s look like in the mirror ...

# 52,583:

7:38 pm PDT, Jul 10, Helena Tallack, United Kingdom

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6:35 am PDT, Jul 10, Priscila Matos, Brazil

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9:15 pm PDT, Jul 9, Pam Alexander, Colorado
What is is desire to kill these animals? How do you sleep at night? Just the thought of what is done to these animals is horrible.

# 52,580:

10:53 am PDT, Jul 9, Jennifer Wilson, Tennessee

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10:24 am PDT, Jul 9, Trina Macdonald, Canada
Not only do Canadians not want this but the world doesnt. The EU is very close to banning all seal products from Canada. It is a waste of money and lives and is ruining Canada.

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10:24 am PDT, Jul 9, Name not displayed, California

# 52,577:

9:57 am PDT, Jul 9, Amanda Russell, Canada

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9:29 am PDT, Jul 9, Tina Tornbjerg, Denmark

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12:10 am PDT, Jul 9, Stefania Narducci, Italy

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8:30 pm PDT, Jul 8, Katie McHugh, Illinois

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7:14 pm PDT, Jul 8, Mary Alaimo, Pennsylvania

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3:40 pm PDT, Jul 8, Karolina Reinholdsson, Sweden

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3:25 pm PDT, Jul 8, Kelsey Hibbs, Canada
Innocent seals are dying just because some men consider killing them a sport!

# 52,570:

2:36 pm PDT, Jul 8, Poisonivy Kitten, Nevada

# 52,569:

1:08 pm PDT, Jul 8, LILIAN BLUMENTHAL, Brazil
No more cruelty please!

# 52,568:

10:03 am PDT, Jul 8, Chirag Gidwani, India
ITS WRONG!!!!!!!!!

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8:54 am PDT, Jul 8, Name not displayed, Thailand

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7:24 am PDT, Jul 8, Leeloo Dallas, Greece

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10:48 pm PDT, Jul 7, Name not displayed, Thailand

# 52,564:

2:23 pm PDT, Jul 7, D A Roy, Texas

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1:12 pm PDT, Jul 7, Patou Soult, United Kingdom
How can you justify such carnage in an age when we have a duty to protect the Natural world and do away with primitive cruelty?

# 52,562:

12:02 pm PDT, Jul 7, Niarica Lubatti, Italy

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11:18 am PDT, Jul 7, Lorella Trinca, Portugal

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10:12 am PDT, Jul 7, Name not displayed, Georgia
These animals are close to being an endangered species, they are worth keeping alive and well. Whatever the reasons or resources that they provide us with, I'm sure we can get it some other way without endangering the lives of these incredible animals WHO DO US NO HARM WHATSOEVER. Please read the petition and think about it. Do you want the future generations of your family to be born in a world that has been rid of incredible beings by their own past family members? We owe them a better world, don't you think?

# 52,559:

8:40 am PDT, Jul 7, Kyna Pettus, Texas

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8:35 am PDT, Jul 7, Name not displayed, Romania

# 52,557:

8:10 am PDT, Jul 7, Lucy Peixoto, Canada
As a Canadian, I demand that the seal hunt be stopped. It is cruel, evil, unsustainable and unjustifyable. Cruelty and barbarism is not part of the Canadian culture. I ask that you show the world what compassionate and wise leader you are, and that you stop this.

# 52,556:

7:16 am PDT, Jul 7, Christie Cherryman, United Kingdom
I am horrified that you would allow this horrific cruelty to continue, although these animals cannot speak for themselves they still feel fear and pain. You have to stop this now!!!!!

# 52,555:

6:46 am PDT, Jul 7, Deborah Pfeffer, Pennsylvania

# 52,554:

6:10 am PDT, Jul 7, Luiz Andrade, Brazil
This is absurd, I don't have any word to describe my feelings for this, Canada you suck.

# 52,553:

4:23 am PDT, Jul 7, Mona Lazar, Romania

# 52,552:

11:02 pm PDT, Jul 6, Nicole Bruno, Florida

# 52,551:

10:15 pm PDT, Jul 6, Victor Kuo, Texas

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