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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!

# 250:

6:21 pm PDT, Apr 4, Louis John, Bahamas
Are we so selfish,Let them live there full life please

# 249:

6:21 pm PDT, Apr 4, Linda Mennella, Virginia

# 248:

6:18 pm PDT, Apr 4, Giovanna Villani, Brazil

# 247:

6:11 pm PDT, Apr 4, Name not displayed, Arizona

# 246:

6:09 pm PDT, Apr 4, Rosa Ranger, Michigan

# 245:

6:07 pm PDT, Apr 4, Holly Zahoor, Florida

# 244:

6:07 pm PDT, Apr 4, Jaclin O'Sullivan, New Zealand

# 243:

6:06 pm PDT, Apr 4, Tara Gregory, Ohio

# 242:

6:04 pm PDT, Apr 4, Terri K., Ohio

# 241:

6:04 pm PDT, Apr 4, Alyssa Sauls, New Jersey

# 240:

6:03 pm PDT, Apr 4, Philippe Ducreux, France

# 239:

6:03 pm PDT, Apr 4, Kelsey Bassler, Pennsylvania

# 238:

5:57 pm PDT, Apr 4, Karina Gonzalez, Mexico

# 237:

5:56 pm PDT, Apr 4, Marco Schimmenti, New York
There is NOTHING good to come out of this! "o lets kill baby seals cuase its fun and we get to full all tough!!" yea! um no! your just lowering an entire species for fun! if dinosaurs came back and killed humans "for fun?" would we like that? um no so stop and think

# 236:

5:45 pm PDT, Apr 4, Jaana Washburn, Canada

# 235:

5:42 pm PDT, Apr 4, Darlene Davis, Michigan

# 234:

5:36 pm PDT, Apr 4, Michael Barth, California

# 233:

5:35 pm PDT, Apr 4, Joyce Dumler, Arizona
ENOUGH! PLEASE, leave these beautiful animals alone! They are not here for you to wear!

# 232:

5:34 pm PDT, Apr 4, Maki�@ Tsukada, Japan

# 231:

5:28 pm PDT, Apr 4, Carolyn Harpster, California

# 230:

5:26 pm PDT, Apr 4, Glyn Daniels, United Kingdom
You will loose this one we will never give up.... many stores have stopped stocking seal fur products. We will bring you to your knees, you murdering scum!

# 229:

5:24 pm PDT, Apr 4, Bonnie Hoffman, California

# 228:

5:18 pm PDT, Apr 4, Shannon Robinson, Indiana

# 227:

5:15 pm PDT, Apr 4, Ken Schliesmann, Wisconsin

# 226:

5:15 pm PDT, Apr 4, Sandra Carr, Alabama
This is horrible and inhumane. These animals deserve to live!!

# 225:

5:15 pm PDT, Apr 4, Sarah Kutzler, Arizona
I don't understand how someone can call themselves a leader and still allow things like this to go on. It is a simple thing to fix all you have to do is have some heart and enough strength to stand up for what's right.

# 224:

5:13 pm PDT, Apr 4, Robert DeSantis, Louisiana

# 223:

5:12 pm PDT, Apr 4, Name not displayed, Wisconsin

# 222:

5:09 pm PDT, Apr 4, Julie Stuckey, Florida
The annumal seal hunt is disgraceful to life itself! The slaughter of the defensless seals is disgusting. Only monsters could do such a thing.

# 221:

5:03 pm PDT, Apr 4, Ashley Mckay, Texas

# 220:

5:01 pm PDT, Apr 4, Joan Levitt, Rhode Island

# 219:

4:59 pm PDT, Apr 4, Desiree Cros, North Carolina

# 218:

4:55 pm PDT, Apr 4, Debbie Reeder, California

# 217:

4:55 pm PDT, Apr 4, Maryanne Campbell, South Carolina

# 216:

4:53 pm PDT, Apr 4, Moni Anonym, Germany

# 215:

4:51 pm PDT, Apr 4, Annie Brock, Colorado

# 214:

4:49 pm PDT, Apr 4, Robert Stockstill, California

# 213:

4:48 pm PDT, Apr 4, John Olexa, Maryland
2010 Olympics in canada! BOYCOTT, BOYCOTT, BOYCOTT Tell sponsors we will not use the product if they have anything to do with the Games in canada.

# 212:

4:47 pm PDT, Apr 4, Joanne Sevigny, Canada

# 211:

4:41 pm PDT, Apr 4, Carole Towers, South Carolina

# 210:

4:41 pm PDT, Apr 4, Gabrielle Bertrand, France

# 209:

4:39 pm PDT, Apr 4, Ana leticia Lobato, Brazil
Please, stop the seal hunt.It's a terrible action.

# 208:

4:38 pm PDT, Apr 4, Brian Reynolds, New Jersey

# 207:

4:37 pm PDT, Apr 4, Shirley Shaw, California
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

# 206:

4:37 pm PDT, Apr 4, Linda Miller, Georgia
How many more years must I spend my time, money and effort to stop this??? I'm going on 27 years of fighting this cruel ritual...when are you going to listen and stop this inhumane travesty? I hate this time of year just for this reason, so do the seals.

# 205:

4:36 pm PDT, Apr 4, Steve Allen, Maine
This seal hunt is such a waste. Stop this primitive inhumane killing.

# 204:

4:35 pm PDT, Apr 4, Name not displayed, New York

# 203:

4:34 pm PDT, Apr 4, Akiko Kudo, Japan

# 202:

4:31 pm PDT, Apr 4, Stefanie Atchison, California

# 201:

4:28 pm PDT, Apr 4, Cassie F, Indiana

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