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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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We signed the “Stop the Seal Hunt” letter!
# 41,100:
7:30 am PDT, May 12,
Jo Fisher, Alabama
# 41,099:
7:29 am PDT, May 12,
Rod Garci, Texas
# 41,098:
7:27 am PDT, May 12,
Savannah Blangger, Texas
# 41,097:
7:25 am PDT, May 12,
Monique Wilton, Florida
# 41,096:
7:20 am PDT, May 12,
Kimberly Wyke, Maine
You and your countrymen should be ashamed of this annual massacre.
You and your countrymen should be ashamed of this annual massacre.
# 41,095:
7:07 am PDT, May 12,
Cynthia Gray, Virginia
# 41,094:
7:03 am PDT, May 12,
Andrea Beebe, Virginia
# 41,093:
6:35 am PDT, May 12,
April Scaturro, New York
# 41,092:
6:29 am PDT, May 12,
Texier Virginie, France
# 41,091:
6:22 am PDT, May 12,
Nicole Rae, Georgia
# 41,090:
6:21 am PDT, May 12,
Carol Hochstadt, Utah
The seal hunt is inhumane. It should not take petitions to get people who consider themselves to be humane to stop - but obviously it does. Please stop NOW!
The seal hunt is inhumane. It should not take petitions to get people who consider themselves to be humane to stop - but obviously it does. Please stop NOW!
# 41,089:
6:21 am PDT, May 12,
ArleneMaria Hoffman, New York
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
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
# 41,088:
6:17 am PDT, May 12,
Jessica D., Pennsylvania
# 41,087:
6:15 am PDT, May 12,
Zoe Hope, Australia
# 41,086:
6:14 am PDT, May 12,
Mulon Adeline, France
# 41,085:
5:45 am PDT, May 12,
Colleen Carlyle, Michigan
# 41,084:
5:36 am PDT, May 12,
Helen Belluschi, Connecticut
# 41,083:
5:32 am PDT, May 12,
Name not displayed, Virginia
# 41,082:
5:07 am PDT, May 12,
Liz James, Pennsylvania
# 41,081:
4:56 am PDT, May 12,
Novelly Nursavitri, Indonesia
every single life things has it own right to live. its just a blessed that we are a human that different from animals. we have mind and ability to think and act, but its so pathetic that human only can give such a huge pain to animals who are not even could think if they will fight human back..they are just a weak animals..please stop hurting them..
every single life things has it own right to live. its just a blessed that we are a human that different from animals. we have mind and ability to think and act, but its so pathetic that human only can give such a huge pain to animals who are not even could think if they will fight human back..they are just a weak animals..please stop hurting them..
# 41,080:
4:43 am PDT, May 12,
Kristina Strickler, Kansas
# 41,079:
4:37 am PDT, May 12,
Constantinescu Corina Ioana, Romania
# 41,078:
4:18 am PDT, May 12,
Charles Greenberg, Washington
# 41,077:
4:08 am PDT, May 12,
Carrie Farmer, Kentucky
# 41,076:
3:58 am PDT, May 12,
Roger Swinney, Ohio
# 41,075:
3:45 am PDT, May 12,
Daniela Lavanza, France
These slaughters have no reason to go on from a social and economical point of view. Canada has grown an important economy, it does not rely anymore on this huntm no matter what lie hunters can tell the world. What is more, it is but inept to destroy the only species which has so far managed to survive global warming, when most polar species are endangered. Had mankind decided to destroy once and for all Nature around us, it would not behave otherwise.
These slaughters have no reason to go on from a social and economical point of view. Canada has grown an important economy, it does not rely anymore on this huntm no matter what lie hunters can tell the world. What is more, it is but inept to destroy the only species which has so far managed to survive global warming, when most polar species are endangered. Had mankind decided to destroy once and for all Nature around us, it would not behave otherwise.
# 41,074:
3:42 am PDT, May 12,
Myriam Sarfatitovic, France
So many Canadian hunters do not even hide that the true reason for this hunt to go on is that they simply like what they do. This can be neither forgiven nor accepted. God shall judge them...
So many Canadian hunters do not even hide that the true reason for this hunt to go on is that they simply like what they do. This can be neither forgiven nor accepted. God shall judge them...
# 41,073:
3:36 am PDT, May 12,
George Mavridoglou, Greece
# 41,072:
2:43 am PDT, May 12,
Manuel Duarte, Portugal
# 41,071:
2:02 am PDT, May 12,
Veronique Scheers, Belgium
# 41,070:
1:07 am PDT, May 12,
Sierra Hamil, Colorado
It's disturbing and wrong. All animals, including seals, have feelings. Nothing should suffer. NOTHING, YOU HEARTLESS, CARELESS, PIECES OF SCUM. YOU SHOULD BE THE ONES CALLED "ANIMALS"
It's disturbing and wrong. All animals, including seals, have feelings. Nothing should suffer. NOTHING, YOU HEARTLESS, CARELESS, PIECES OF SCUM. YOU SHOULD BE THE ONES CALLED "ANIMALS"
# 41,069:
12:40 am PDT, May 12,
KATHLEEN DESCANS, California
THIS HUNT IS CRUEL AND SHOULD BE STOPPED ONCE AND FOR ALL!!!
THIS HUNT IS CRUEL AND SHOULD BE STOPPED ONCE AND FOR ALL!!!
# 41,068:
12:12 am PDT, May 12,
Marinell Hoepfner, South Africa
Terrible!
Terrible!
# 41,067:
11:42 pm PDT, May 11,
Radha McAlpine, Florida
# 41,066:
11:38 pm PDT, May 11,
Marina Czapszys, Oregon
# 41,065:
11:13 pm PDT, May 11,
Bee Kitt, California
# 41,064:
11:11 pm PDT, May 11,
Adele Spreeth, South Africa
It's inhumane.
It's inhumane.
# 41,063:
11:08 pm PDT, May 11,
Miranda Richards, California
# 41,062:
11:08 pm PDT, May 11,
Craig Cross, Maryland
# 41,061:
10:53 pm PDT, May 11,
Name not displayed, Arizona
# 41,060:
10:53 pm PDT, May 11,
Anne-maree Collier, Australia
# 41,059:
10:30 pm PDT, May 11,
CAROL DIPPY, Florida
This is such a deplorable hunt! It is a horrible stigma on Canada! I will not buy anything Canadian until this cruel hunt is outlawed.
This is such a deplorable hunt! It is a horrible stigma on Canada! I will not buy anything Canadian until this cruel hunt is outlawed.
# 41,058:
10:21 pm PDT, May 11,
Mathew Molloy, California
# 41,057:
9:28 pm PDT, May 11,
Gretel Oxwang, Oregon
# 41,056:
9:26 pm PDT, May 11,
Kevin Murnane, New Jersey
# 41,055:
9:13 pm PDT, May 11,
Tasha Nungester, Ohio
It is just down and out cruel.
It is just down and out cruel.
# 41,054:
9:11 pm PDT, May 11,
Ophir Benami, California
how can a normal human being kill another living creatur for fun? these people who have the need to hunt are INSANE! there should be a law, internationally, that said each hunter that will be caught hunting animals for fun will be hunted and killed as a punishment. lets see how many hunters we'll have then. fucken savages! ophir benami
how can a normal human being kill another living creatur for fun? these people who have the need to hunt are INSANE! there should be a law, internationally, that said each hunter that will be caught hunting animals for fun will be hunted and killed as a punishment. lets see how many hunters we'll have then. fucken savages! ophir benami
# 41,053:
9:09 pm PDT, May 11,
Shelby Cristofori, California
# 41,052:
9:03 pm PDT, May 11,
Amy Reynolds, California
# 41,051:
9:00 pm PDT, May 11,
Agnes S, Illinois