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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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# 52,700:
2:11 pm PDT, Aug 9,
Nancy Wilks, Texas
I love canada. I visit there all the time and want the live there when i'm older but I love seals even more. And if this seal hunt is what Canada does than why should I go there? Why should I support businesses and economies that support the killing of seals? This needs to stop
I love canada. I visit there all the time and want the live there when i'm older but I love seals even more. And if this seal hunt is what Canada does than why should I go there? Why should I support businesses and economies that support the killing of seals? This needs to stop
# 52,699:
10:56 am PDT, Aug 9,
Sherri Bessire, Texas
# 52,698:
4:18 am PDT, Aug 8,
Name not displayed, Australia
Imagine that you were killed with wooden clubs or guns by terrifying creatures. Then after the shooting and slaughter, you are skinned alive. Imagine what it would feel like, from the inside and out. You can only imagine it but cannot feel the pain of it. God didn't create these creatures for humans to kill them. God made them so they experience how wonderful life is. So why don't you let them to live and love. It won't hurt to stop the seal hunt. Also, what if you were taken away from your family or the ones you love without any notice or choice. Humans have choices, so why can't it be the same with seals. These word come from the heart, not the head. I hope you have a heart to at least have time to read this.
Imagine that you were killed with wooden clubs or guns by terrifying creatures. Then after the shooting and slaughter, you are skinned alive. Imagine what it would feel like, from the inside and out. You can only imagine it but cannot feel the pain of it. God didn't create these creatures for humans to kill them. God made them so they experience how wonderful life is. So why don't you let them to live and love. It won't hurt to stop the seal hunt. Also, what if you were taken away from your family or the ones you love without any notice or choice. Humans have choices, so why can't it be the same with seals. These word come from the heart, not the head. I hope you have a heart to at least have time to read this.
# 52,697:
8:07 am PDT, Aug 7,
Margarita Gil, Spain
# 52,696:
6:31 am PDT, Aug 7,
Weronika Ratajczak, Poland
This cruel trade must to be stopped once forever, we must care about animals!!!
This cruel trade must to be stopped once forever, we must care about animals!!!
# 52,695:
5:28 am PDT, Aug 7,
Magdalena Korzeniewska, Poland
# 52,694:
9:02 pm PDT, Aug 6,
Stacy Samson, Oklahoma
# 52,693:
10:42 am PDT, Aug 5,
Sarah Manthey, Ohio
# 52,692:
1:00 pm PDT, Aug 4,
Name not displayed, Indiana
# 52,691:
9:53 am PDT, Aug 4,
Silvia Vaz, Portugal
# 52,690:
6:52 am PDT, Aug 4,
Leah Cowels, New Hampshire
# 52,689:
4:09 pm PDT, Aug 3,
Carlos Romero, Florida
This is so cruel...Please Mr. Prime Minister and Ambassador, stop this massacre...and also many ways the comestible animals are kill here in USA,...and around the world such in China, and Japon with whale, dolphins and the process how the skin of many kind of animals are taken from them, when they still ALIVE,...what kind of "human being" we are,...and nobody from the government of the first country of the whole world do nothing; but to make wars we are the first always.
This is so cruel...Please Mr. Prime Minister and Ambassador, stop this massacre...and also many ways the comestible animals are kill here in USA,...and around the world such in China, and Japon with whale, dolphins and the process how the skin of many kind of animals are taken from them, when they still ALIVE,...what kind of "human being" we are,...and nobody from the government of the first country of the whole world do nothing; but to make wars we are the first always.
# 52,688:
3:07 pm PDT, Aug 2,
Sue Wehking, Canada
The seal hunt is inhumane and a blot on Canada' reputation. The EC is on the right track.
The seal hunt is inhumane and a blot on Canada' reputation. The EC is on the right track.
# 52,687:
2:20 am PDT, Aug 2,
Ivana Soldic, Serbia And Montenegro
# 52,686:
3:20 pm PDT, Aug 1,
Name not displayed, United Kingdom
# 52,685:
2:56 am PDT, Aug 1,
Jeanne Lavelle, Virginia
# 52,684:
2:45 am PDT, Aug 1,
Africa Eburne, United Kingdom
# 52,683:
12:38 pm PDT, Jul 31,
Jeannette Devlin, United Kingdom
# 52,682:
11:51 am PDT, Jul 31,
Tatiyana Devlin, United Kingdom
# 52,681:
11:39 am PDT, Jul 31,
Cecilia Morales, Bolivia
# 52,680:
10:01 pm PDT, Jul 30,
Krista Sewell, New York
This act is probably the highest act of cruelty I have ever seen. Harp seals are already in danger thanks to global warming, they are trying so hard to survive, and these cruel, heartless people come into their home and kill them without blinking an eye. It kills me to see how people think of this as a sport & do it for profit. This needs to be stopped immediately, the harp seals are crying out for help.
This act is probably the highest act of cruelty I have ever seen. Harp seals are already in danger thanks to global warming, they are trying so hard to survive, and these cruel, heartless people come into their home and kill them without blinking an eye. It kills me to see how people think of this as a sport & do it for profit. This needs to be stopped immediately, the harp seals are crying out for help.
# 52,679:
12:57 pm PDT, Jul 30,
Robyn Gangemi, New Jersey
# 52,678:
8:16 am PDT, Jul 30,
Name not displayed, Florida
These seals are helpless they dont now what too do when there family is being killed.im mean what are they supposed to do?so we need to stop the hunt because those hunters need to pick on someone there own size.
These seals are helpless they dont now what too do when there family is being killed.im mean what are they supposed to do?so we need to stop the hunt because those hunters need to pick on someone there own size.
# 52,677:
8:12 am PDT, Jul 30,
Antonia Mayol Ferrer, Spain
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. 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. Sincerely, Antonia Mayol Ferrer.
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. 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. Sincerely, Antonia Mayol Ferrer.
# 52,676:
6:07 am PDT, Jul 30,
Kinga Laskowska, Poland
STOP!!!!!!!!!
STOP!!!!!!!!!
# 52,675:
4:11 am PDT, Jul 30,
Plaifon Kulpang, Thailand
ได้โปรดหยุดเถอะค่ะ ขอร้องนะคะ หยุดเถอะ ถ้าคุณเกิดเป็นเค้าแล้วคุณจะรู้สึก...T T
ได้โปรดหยุดเถอะค่ะ ขอร้องนะคะ หยุดเถอะ ถ้าคุณเกิดเป็นเค้าแล้วคุณจะรู้สึก...T T
# 52,674:
9:24 pm PDT, Jul 29,
Michele Gangemi, New Jersey
# 52,673:
3:28 pm PDT, Jul 29,
Stephanie Poirier, Canada
# 52,672:
7:21 pm PDT, Jul 28,
Marina Payne, Oregon
# 52,671:
6:15 pm PDT, Jul 28,
Name not displayed, New Zealand
It is a cruel, unneccessary practice that NEEDS to be outlawed. There is no need for it and if some hunter came along and shot your dog, would you be mad??!! Well it's just the same with seals!!
It is a cruel, unneccessary practice that NEEDS to be outlawed. There is no need for it and if some hunter came along and shot your dog, would you be mad??!! Well it's just the same with seals!!
# 52,670:
11:12 am PDT, Jul 28,
VIDA TOBI KANTER, New York
# 52,669:
7:45 pm PDT, Jul 27,
Name not displayed, Thailand
please stop hunt them!!!~
please stop hunt them!!!~
# 52,668:
4:59 pm PDT, Jul 27,
Andi Alnwick, New York
# 52,667:
10:28 am PDT, Jul 27,
Andi Laurie Alnwick, New York
# 52,666:
10:22 pm PDT, Jul 26,
Christine Leakey, Canada
It's wrong. Period. It's embarrassing and it's cruel. When are we going to learn to respect. Do humans have no dignity left?
It's wrong. Period. It's embarrassing and it's cruel. When are we going to learn to respect. Do humans have no dignity left?
# 52,665:
9:35 pm PDT, Jul 26,
Sylvia Dudek, Canada
# 52,664:
7:10 am PDT, Jul 26,
Madeline Crane, Wisconsin
# 52,663:
12:50 pm PDT, Jul 25,
Name not displayed, Finland
This hunting is just too inhumane as it can be. Killing defensless animals unnecessarily. Like Mahatma Ghandi said "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by how well its animals are treated."
This hunting is just too inhumane as it can be. Killing defensless animals unnecessarily. Like Mahatma Ghandi said "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by how well its animals are treated."
# 52,662:
11:46 am PDT, Jul 25,
Name not displayed, Argentina
creatures that are not intended to defend itself also the right to live like all of us
creatures that are not intended to defend itself also the right to live like all of us
# 52,661:
3:25 am PDT, Jul 25,
Name not displayed, Belgium
# 52,660:
8:46 pm PDT, Jul 24,
Name not displayed, Texas
# 52,659:
6:51 pm PDT, Jul 24,
Andy T, South Carolina
# 52,658:
4:03 pm PDT, Jul 24,
Patricia Bosworth, Massachusetts
# 52,657:
9:52 am PDT, Jul 24,
Piotr Kalinowski, Poland
# 52,656:
9:47 am PDT, Jul 24,
Anna Kalinowska, Poland
# 52,655:
7:41 am PDT, Jul 24,
Milicia Milner, Canada
# 52,654:
7:40 am PDT, Jul 24,
Megan Milner, Canada
# 52,653:
8:36 pm PDT, Jul 23,
Shannon McDonald, Australia
Out of all the things in this world humans can do wrong, how could we sink so low to the point where we kill the defensless for fun and sport. They can't wage war on us, so we have to stop and work on letting them live in peace just like you do for our country.
Out of all the things in this world humans can do wrong, how could we sink so low to the point where we kill the defensless for fun and sport. They can't wage war on us, so we have to stop and work on letting them live in peace just like you do for our country.
# 52,652:
8:31 pm PDT, Jul 23,
Name not displayed, Australia
this is appauling, i don't know how it is considered a sport, it's disgusting. Please give the animals the respect they deserve
this is appauling, i don't know how it is considered a sport, it's disgusting. Please give the animals the respect they deserve
# 52,651:
5:39 pm PDT, Jul 23,
Michelle Malchow, New York