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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!

# 80,450:

6:31 am PDT, Apr 17, Daniela Cristina Castori, British Indian Ocean Territory
I again believes on the people of well , I again believes on peace , & I again believes on a world best. Please stop now!!!!No we need from skin of this animals...no we need of the suffering of this animals..Please don't kill these animals...

# 80,449:

6:13 am PDT, Apr 17, Nadia Passarelli carvalho, Brazil
Nenhum animal merece ser massacrado!

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5:55 am PDT, Apr 17, Hana Švubová, Czech Republic

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5:52 am PDT, Apr 17, Linda Geertson, Ohio

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5:20 am PDT, Apr 17, Jonathan Almeida, Brazil

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5:09 am PDT, Apr 17, Name not displayed, Australia

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10:37 pm PDT, Apr 16, Ras Ondrasek, Canada

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6:10 pm PDT, Apr 16, Andrea Polito, Brazil
seals rule the world.

# 80,442:

5:06 pm PDT, Apr 16, Name not displayed, Maryland
I still strongly believe that Canada and Canadians are one of the most forward thinking country as well as people in the world. Only thing is.. this belief has been eroding ever since I found out about the seal clubbing/skinning several years ago. I wonder how much longer I will be fond of Canadians and their country. Maybe they are not that of nice and kind people after all, eh? Anybody who says 'no, that's just small population of people in a remote area' is not doing much of convincing either. Because it's happening in a small remote area, that's ok? How they sleep at night is beyond me..

# 80,441:

4:08 pm PDT, Apr 16, Emily Muscatt, United Kingdom
Seal culling is disgusting and completey unecessary I hope this helps to stop it.

# 80,440:

3:55 pm PDT, Apr 16, Josefina Ribes, Florida
Do we call ourselves "civilized" creatures When we still masacred indefense animals I think the the word civilized is still out of reach for we human Please stop this nonsense killing of baby seals

# 80,439:

3:51 pm PDT, Apr 16, Luiza Lumiko Sato, Brazil
Are we living in the 21 century? Are we, human beings, more intelligent than other animals? Money can't create a single life, but in the name of it, many humans and their governments can destroy others life as a normal choice... Please, wake up, everybody!!!

# 80,438:

2:47 pm PDT, Apr 16, Simon Baker, United Kingdom

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11:48 am PDT, Apr 16, Name not displayed, Florida

# 80,436:

10:08 am PDT, Apr 16, Erica Santana de Macedo, Brazil
Sou contra matarem pobres animais indefesos, para a măo de obra humana.

# 80,435:

10:03 am PDT, Apr 16, Aniele Somogyi, Brazil
Se sensibilize!! Pra que matar as focas?? Por uma questăo de poder e dinheiro?? Elas năo nos fazem mal, săo belos animais. PARE COM ESSA CAÇA! PROIBA. É muito cruel, imagine se fosse com alguém de sua família, vc ia gostar?

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10:00 am PDT, Apr 16, Bethan Bonebrake, Oregon
This is murder! How people who kill cute puppies get put into jail, but not the people who kill cute seals?

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8:32 am PDT, Apr 16, Jiri V., Czech Republic

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7:35 am PDT, Apr 16, Name not displayed, Spain
hdp:@

# 80,430:

7:19 am PDT, Apr 16, Daniele Costa, Brazil
Please, stop!

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6:17 am PDT, Apr 16, Martina Rybová, Czech Republic

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5:49 am PDT, Apr 16, Laura Fajardo, Florida
stop this massacre these animals deserve to live!

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5:46 am PDT, Apr 16, Name not displayed, Brazil

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5:45 am PDT, Apr 16, Valeria Leite, Brazil

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5:40 am PDT, Apr 16, ANA LÚCIA RODRIGUES, Brazil
Parem com essa crueldade já! Stop this cruel thing now!

# 80,424:

5:36 am PDT, Apr 16, Veronika Schweidlerová, Czech Republic

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2:47 am PDT, Apr 16, Name not displayed, Vanuatu
Sou contra a matança das focas

# 80,422:

2:38 am PDT, Apr 16, Lucie Jenišová, Czech Republic

# 80,421:

2:05 am PDT, Apr 16, Kelly Taylor, United Kingdom
Its disgusting!! How can people look into these creatures eyes and still happily kill them. I wonder how these people would feel if we were doing the same to them and their family!

# 80,420:

12:06 am PDT, Apr 16, Dimitra Sk, Greece
áéó÷ďó óôçí áíčńůđéíç ęôçíůäéá....

# 80,419:

9:51 pm PDT, Apr 15, Linda Ojanen, Finland

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9:25 pm PDT, Apr 15, Rachel M. Strong, Pennsylvania

# 80,417:

8:46 pm PDT, Apr 15, Gabriela Jacob, Brazil

# 80,416:

7:10 pm PDT, Apr 15, Willian Matos, Brazil
Os animais năo falam, porém estamos aqui para falarmos por eles.

# 80,415:

6:38 pm PDT, Apr 15, Daniela Cristina, Brazil

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6:20 pm PDT, Apr 15, PAULA ZULUAGA, Colombia

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5:53 pm PDT, Apr 15, Jordan Ellis, Canada

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5:51 pm PDT, Apr 15, Kelly Forti, Brazil
Os animais săo seres vivos iguais a nós! Devemos respeitá-los e preservar a vida deles!!

# 80,411:

5:16 pm PDT, Apr 15, Renan Racy, Brazil

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5:12 pm PDT, Apr 15, Mônica Xavier, Brazil

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4:13 pm PDT, Apr 15, Dony Solari, Peru
amemos los animales!!!

# 80,408:

4:08 pm PDT, Apr 15, Rosberg Bezerra, Brazil

# 80,407:

4:05 pm PDT, Apr 15, Hesdry Uchiha, Brazil

# 80,406:

3:12 pm PDT, Apr 15, Roberta Iorio, Brazil
salve os animais

# 80,405:

2:38 pm PDT, Apr 15, Jana Zapletal, Michigan

# 80,404:

2:20 pm PDT, Apr 15, Elizangela Carollo, Brazil

# 80,403:

1:50 pm PDT, Apr 15, Edielc Oliver, Brazil

# 80,402:

1:38 pm PDT, Apr 15, Blanca Moreno, Mexico
Stop the killing!

# 80,401:

1:24 pm PDT, Apr 15, Stuart Buckley, Florida
Stop killing innocent helpless creatures

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