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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!

# 150:

2:41 pm PDT, Apr 4, Kenzie Kovacs-Szabo, Washington

# 149:

2:40 pm PDT, Apr 4, Courtney Boeck, Michigan

# 148:

2:40 pm PDT, Apr 4, Nushie Chancellor, Mexico

# 147:

2:40 pm PDT, Apr 4, Amanda Mason, Virginia

# 146:

2:36 pm PDT, Apr 4, Allyson Arms, Tennessee
absolute abomination against animals

# 145:

2:26 pm PDT, Apr 4, Sylvia Fonseca, Florida

# 144:

2:25 pm PDT, Apr 4, Name not displayed, Tennessee

# 143:

2:23 pm PDT, Apr 4, Robin Thomson, California

# 142:

2:20 pm PDT, Apr 4, Marilyn Bartlett, New York

# 141:

2:18 pm PDT, Apr 4, Mike Downs, Missouri

# 140:

2:18 pm PDT, Apr 4, Name not displayed, California
Animals deserve our love, respect, and protection!!!

# 139:

2:17 pm PDT, Apr 4, CJ Childress, Kentucky

# 138:

2:11 pm PDT, Apr 4, Raymond Linnastruth, California

# 137:

2:08 pm PDT, Apr 4, John Bazluke, Florida

# 136:

2:07 pm PDT, Apr 4, Holly Swint, Florida

# 135:

2:06 pm PDT, Apr 4, Dave Sennett, Pennsylvania

# 134:

2:05 pm PDT, Apr 4, Ines Seidel, Germany

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2:04 pm PDT, Apr 4, Rebecca Del Rincon, Oregon

# 132:

2:03 pm PDT, Apr 4, Chad Halsey, Indiana

# 131:

2:03 pm PDT, Apr 4, Mark Sheldon, California

# 130:

2:03 pm PDT, Apr 4, Heidi Duncan, Tennessee

# 129:

2:02 pm PDT, Apr 4, Donna Smith, North Carolina
This cruelty has got to stop!

# 127:

1:59 pm PDT, Apr 4, Terri VanKuipers, Canada

# 126:

1:58 pm PDT, Apr 4, Michael Cryer, Colorado

# 125:

1:54 pm PDT, Apr 4, Tree Poet, United Kingdom
I am saddened and disgusted that this barbaric and cruel practice continues, humane solutions are available.

# 124:

1:52 pm PDT, Apr 4, John Kesich, Pennsylvania
Can't you find a better activity to subsidize?

# 123:

1:52 pm PDT, Apr 4, Matthew Pintar, Pennsylvania

# 122:

1:51 pm PDT, Apr 4, Arielle Vaisnor, California
this is absolutely disgusting. I am ashamed to be lving next to canada and appalled at how those murderers can sleep at night. Stop buying canadian prducts, they need to be taught a lesson.

# 121:

1:49 pm PDT, Apr 4, S Calla, New Jersey

# 120:

1:48 pm PDT, Apr 4, Jim Holyoak, California

# 119:

1:45 pm PDT, Apr 4, Panagiotis Rigopoulos, Greece

# 118:

1:45 pm PDT, Apr 4, Lene Hansen, Denmark
Stop this cruelty NOW!

# 117:

1:45 pm PDT, Apr 4, London Laidlaw, California

# 116:

1:44 pm PDT, Apr 4, Maggi Parker, California

# 115:

1:42 pm PDT, Apr 4, Autumn Leaf, Hawaii

# 114:

1:41 pm PDT, Apr 4, Laura Filipas, Romania

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1:37 pm PDT, Apr 4, JOHN BUCK, Pennsylvania

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1:37 pm PDT, Apr 4, Elisayn Anderson, New York

# 111:

1:34 pm PDT, Apr 4, Ceren Kiran, Turkey

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1:28 pm PDT, Apr 4, Briseida Diaz Salles Berges, Mexico

# 109:

1:27 pm PDT, Apr 4, Tommy Dahlgren, Sweden

# 108:

1:25 pm PDT, Apr 4, Karinne Gott, New Hampshire

# 107:

1:24 pm PDT, Apr 4, Emma Mckerry, United Kingdom
please end this cruel act to seals it is totally inhumane and unnessasary

# 106:

1:22 pm PDT, Apr 4, Rhonda Marandola, New Jersey
There is nothing to say except "HOW DISGUSTING". Maybe if we did it to these fisherman, they would realize how bad this is.

# 105:

1:19 pm PDT, Apr 4, Linda Keener, Massachusetts
Stop killing these babies. Stop skinning these babies alive. The individuals capable of this cruelty are sick and barbaric. End this disgusting hunt now. Imagine someone killing your baby in front of your eyes and skinning him or her alive in front of your eyes. Stop this now

# 104:

1:19 pm PDT, Apr 4, Cheyenne Wolf, Montana
NO SUCH THING FOR OUR SEALS..A MORE HUMANE HUNT...NO HUNT PERIOD! GET IT??!~!!

# 103:

1:19 pm PDT, Apr 4, Katherine Delesalle, North Carolina
It is inexcusable for us to treat animals in this brutal manner. They have the right to humane treatment, and since this has proved impossible, we must urge the government to take action, and prevent these beautiful animals from suffering any more cruelty.

# 102:

1:17 pm PDT, Apr 4, Brandon Logan, Mississippi

# 101:

1:14 pm PDT, Apr 4, Anne Seidel, Germany

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