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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!

# 41,350:

3:56 pm PDT, May 13, Name not displayed, Slovenia
I didn't think Canada was so cruel. Come on, it's time for a change.

# 41,349:

3:53 pm PDT, May 13, John Tatara Jr, South Carolina

# 41,348:

3:44 pm PDT, May 13, Name not displayed, United Kingdom
Dear decision maker-with all the respect, i have no words to decribe or respond to the daily reports that went around the world on CNN showing details of the hunts. The pleading, the screaming, the helpless twitching, the last effort to get away from the inescapable...Sir/Madame, I thank God that you have had the fortunate privilege to have been born as a human and not a seal. I wonder, if the murderers you send out ever looked into two of those pleading eyes right before they smash their sculls-

# 41,347:

3:31 pm PDT, May 13, Sandra Reeves, Texas

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3:28 pm PDT, May 13, John Phillips, Florida

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3:12 pm PDT, May 13, John H. Pieper, Minnesota

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2:49 pm PDT, May 13, Michaele Plotkin, California

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2:47 pm PDT, May 13, Ana Torres, New York

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2:43 pm PDT, May 13, William Hannah, Georgia

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2:30 pm PDT, May 13, Lynn Atkins, Massachusetts

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2:26 pm PDT, May 13, Lissi ashlee Finch, United Kingdom

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2:25 pm PDT, May 13, Belinda Qualls, Arizona

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2:12 pm PDT, May 13, Name not displayed, Washington
Please stop this killing of defenseless animals.

# 41,337:

2:12 pm PDT, May 13, Jennifer Dery, Florida

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2:11 pm PDT, May 13, Kellie Laughinrain, North Carolina

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2:07 pm PDT, May 13, Paprika Clark, California

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2:06 pm PDT, May 13, Sharon Taylor, Arizona
For many years I have been signing petitions about human decency where it is involved in the seal hunt...if the two can be connected in any way. Please stop this inhumaine process. NOW

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2:04 pm PDT, May 13, Donna Pulliam, Virginia

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1:40 pm PDT, May 13, Shiloh Stultz, Washington

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1:38 pm PDT, May 13, Susan Wright, Pennsylvania

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1:18 pm PDT, May 13, Sally Crosby, California

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1:14 pm PDT, May 13, Jennifer MacVean, Arizona
I'm glad they think they're trying, but it's not enough.

# 41,328:

1:14 pm PDT, May 13, Flor Gonzalez, California

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1:10 pm PDT, May 13, Donna Capurso, California

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1:06 pm PDT, May 13, Madelyn Dorta, Illinois

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1:02 pm PDT, May 13, Victoria Fong, Nevada

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12:49 pm PDT, May 13, Gary Smith, United Kingdom

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12:47 pm PDT, May 13, Yolanda Leaird, California

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12:43 pm PDT, May 13, Elaine Willingham, United Kingdom

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12:30 pm PDT, May 13, Jacqueline DuFoe, Illinois
The seal hunt should be stopped because these are God's creathers.

# 41,320:

12:23 pm PDT, May 13, Aleksandra Noskowicz, Poland

# 41,319:

12:17 pm PDT, May 13, Rachel Siegel, New York

# 41,318:

12:12 pm PDT, May 13, Claire Lewis-jones, California
why should we be surprised that they 'lied'....it seems that the money rules.........and no one really cares.......

# 41,316:

11:58 am PDT, May 13, Emogene Herb, Washington

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11:56 am PDT, May 13, Shanda Hahn Kinkade, Nebraska

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11:53 am PDT, May 13, Christopher Dupee, Vermont

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11:51 am PDT, May 13, Christian Mu�oz, Chile

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11:50 am PDT, May 13, Mel Skluzacek, New York

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11:30 am PDT, May 13, Name not displayed, Arizona

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10:53 am PDT, May 13, Ashley McNair, California

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10:53 am PDT, May 13, Cindy Tucker, Florida
Why should we NEED to tell the prime minister and the ambassador why the seal hunt should be stopped. They are intelligent people who know that it is sensless & inhumane. Yet, they continue to do it. They continue to choose to be inhumane. What type of people are they?

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10:47 am PDT, May 13, Laura Martinez, Texas

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10:42 am PDT, May 13, Jennifer Mosher, Tennessee

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10:39 am PDT, May 13, Wanda Pulley, Texas

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10:38 am PDT, May 13, Trish Gibson, Indiana

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10:21 am PDT, May 13, DeeDra Leopardi, Florida

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10:16 am PDT, May 13, Sarah Camp, Alabama

# 41,302:

10:10 am PDT, May 13, Jennifer Dodge, Washington
Please stop this cruel act against seals it is truly sad and horrific!

# 41,301:

10:02 am PDT, May 13, Jennifer Matte, Canada

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