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Stop the killing of seals in Canada

Target: Hon. Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada; Minister of Fisheries and Oceans
Sponsored by: Erika Ceballos

Baby Seals Need Your Help!

This year, by late March, the Canadian seal killers armed with clubs and rifles will go again to the nursery floes of the harp and hood seal, to massacre them in the largest mass slaughter of marine mammals on this planet!

In 2003 alone, 350,000 seals where killed in this brutal way and this year and in 2005, each year they will kill 350,000 more to make a total of over a MILLION seals killed within 3 years.

Please sign this petition and send it to everyone who cares for the animals in the world to stop this extremely cruel slaughter of innocent seals in Canada.

deadline: 12-12-2007
goal: 75,000

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In few weeks time the seal hunt will start all over again in Newfoundland. Last year The Ministry of Fisheries and Oceans exceeded their quota by 32,000 animals and their estimate of a "sustainable" hunt by more than 50,000.
The hunters, armed with clubs and other illegal weapons, beat to death the baby hooded and harp seals in front their mothers, who often die trying to save their pups. Male adults often are left to bleed to death after have their penises brutally removed to export to countries such as Japan where they are used as aphrodisiacs.
The most shocking evidence comes from 2001, when an international team of Veterinarians who witnessed the hunt, perfomed post-mortem examinations among some carcasses chosen randomly and proved that a 42% of those seals where skinned alive !!!
This is the largest mammal killing in the world and there is no excuse for such a massacre or for the torture of these beautiful living beings. It only gives Canada a bad name as a primitive nation profiting from the fur of baby seals.

Please, we urge you to stop allowing and supporting the killing of Canadian wildlife in such horrific way!

We signed the “Stop the killing of seals in Canada” petition!

# 50:

7:31 pm PST, Feb 14, POMMAWOLF ALASKA, Alaska
WHO PUT YOU PEOPLE IN CHARGE? WE NATIVES HAVE THE RIGHT TO KILL ALL THE SEALS WE WANT. WE HAVE THAT RIGHT!

# 49:

7:18 pm PST, Feb 14, Nicole Caldwell, Texas

# 48:

5:42 pm PST, Feb 14, Sasa Srepfler, Canada

# 47:

5:15 pm PST, Feb 14, Sarah and Carolyn Friends, Canada
...what did the seals do to us!?...

# 46:

4:49 pm PST, Feb 14, Mel S, Illinois
stop murdering innocent living beings that cannot defend themselfs

# 45:

4:23 pm PST, Feb 14, Cynthia Hodges, Texas
This is so horrible it makes me cry. Everyone, please support Sea Shepherd http://www.seashepherd.com/campaign-current2.shtml or International Fund for Animals http://www.ifaw.com/page.asp?id=1398 to stop this atrocity. God save the seals!

# 44:

2:45 pm PST, Feb 14, Denise Pirko, Canada

# 43:

2:00 pm PST, Feb 14, Nolan Farkas, California

# 42:

1:53 pm PST, Feb 14, Cory Chisham, Canada
PLEASE DO NOT ALLOW THIS MASSIVE SLAUGHTER OF INNOCENT CREATURES!!!!!

# 41:

1:20 pm PST, Feb 14, Wayne Steffen, California

# 40:

1:17 pm PST, Feb 14, Regina K. Benge, Kentucky

# 39:

12:32 pm PST, Feb 14, Name not displayed, Canada

# 38:

11:45 am PST, Feb 14, Becca Rockwell, Michigan

# 37:

11:25 am PST, Feb 14, Seth Larmer, Missouri

# 36:

10:40 am PST, Feb 14, Jill Allen, Canada

# 35:

10:16 am PST, Feb 14, Gene Peters, Texas

# 34:

10:02 am PST, Feb 14, Heather Hembrey, Virginia
The Canadian Government, progressive in so many ways, fails miserably in its unillingness to stop this mass slaughter of innocent, beautiful creatures. These animals are not a problem worthy of extinction--the Canadian Fisheries' policies that allow overfishing are.

# 33:

9:43 am PST, Feb 14, Lara OToole, Maine

# 32:

9:14 am PST, Feb 14, Faithe Tilley, Tennessee

# 31:

8:53 am PST, Feb 14, Jesse Addison Hillaker, Michigan
Tell me the point of this madness! I grow weary over the rape of our beautiful Earth.

# 30:

7:54 am PST, Feb 14, Jessica Lough, Canada
help save the seals in Canada!!!

# 29:

6:42 am PST, Feb 14, Lisa Haugen, Missouri
How can this still be going on? Stop it!

# 28:

5:57 am PST, Feb 14, Name not displayed, Maryland

# 27:

5:29 am PST, Feb 14, Jean Baker, United Kingdom

# 26:

5:05 am PST, Feb 14, Name not displayed, Canada

# 25:

5:00 am PST, Feb 14, Arielle and Arnold Schechter, North Carolina
We can't believe this is still going on. This is a holocaust. Shame on those allowing this slaughter to happen.

# 24:

4:51 am PST, Feb 14, Name not displayed, Germany
Why ?? There is no reason or need to. Such uncompassionate humans.

# 23:

4:07 am PST, Feb 14, Name not displayed, Arizona

# 22:

3:33 am PST, Feb 14, Tami Gregory, Virginia
Proper regulation of the seal population should be maintained but mass killings will only make them reproduce more. Animals will keep their population growing, if the natural predators are not there then the seals should be thinned, not by killing but by relocating, if possible. There are always other alternatives instead of death.

# 21:

2:46 am PST, Feb 14, Bruce Combs, Netherlands
Until we learn to treat all creatures with dignity and respect we will never achieve peace among ourselves. And My wife and I want our grandchildren -- and yours -- to have the same opportunities to enjoy nature and its wildlife that we have.

# 20:

2:29 am PST, Feb 14, Cenydd Phillips, United Kingdom

# 19:

2:23 am PST, Feb 14, Margita Waldehov, Sweden
Sickening what man does to other creatures.Don't eat them. Don't beat them.Treat them with respect.

# 18:

1:27 am PST, Feb 14, Claire Watson, California

# 17:

1:05 am PST, Feb 14, Tihana Gacesa, Croatia

# 16:

12:27 am PST, Feb 14, Jeanne-Marie Peterson, Washington

# 15:

11:28 pm PST, Feb 13, Jesse Gove, Washington

# 14:

11:00 pm PST, Feb 13, Heli Sajaniemi, Finland

# 13:

8:36 pm PST, Feb 13, Name not displayed, Arizona

# 12:

7:15 pm PST, Feb 13, Lauire Waldron, Florida

# 11:

6:42 pm PST, Feb 13, Kira Bacal, MD, PhD, Texas

# 10:

6:22 pm PST, Feb 13, Fred Fall, New Jersey

# 9:

5:36 pm PST, Feb 13, Name not displayed, Illinois
Please stop torturing seals, they are part of our animal kingdom too.

# 8:

5:21 pm PST, Feb 13, Shannon Demarest, Oregon

# 7:

5:20 pm PST, Feb 13, Robert Lauter, New York
How could anyone take a life as precious as that of a seal? By the thousands, no less. Damn bastards!

# 6:

5:18 pm PST, Feb 13, Name not displayed, Canada
We are destroying enough of our land and animals, let's try to stop as much as we can so our children and grandchildren will have something to cherish besides cement and tar

# 5:

4:35 pm PST, Feb 13, Name not displayed, Canada
this has to stop NOW!!!!

# 4:

4:31 pm PST, Feb 13, Name not displayed, Illinois
Lets try to be humane. There is no need to live like barbarians

# 3:

3:47 pm PST, Feb 13, Jess Hart, Washington

# 2:

2:53 pm PST, Feb 13, Patricia Crowson, Georgia
These seals were there long before human two legged animals. The seals should be left alone. Quit giving them death, fear and agony

# 1:

2:41 pm PST, Feb 13, Michael Dowdy, Missouri
Stop The Massacre of Seals!

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