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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!
# 80,500:
3:23 am PDT, Apr 20, Eliška Javůrková, Czech Republic
# 80,499:
2:30 am PDT, Apr 20, Ian Wydenbach, United Kingdom
as a so called civilised nation, Canada should have no hesitation in banning this brutal event.
# 80,498:
7:51 pm PDT, Apr 19, Name not displayed, Brazil
# 80,497:
7:21 pm PDT, Apr 19, Name not displayed, United Kingdom
# 80,496:
4:18 pm PDT, Apr 19, Santiago Gonzalez, France
# 80,495:
4:15 pm PDT, Apr 19, Ana Brandao, France
# 80,494:
12:59 pm PDT, Apr 19, George Vdm, Belgium
please stop the killing for us children
# 80,493:
12:19 pm PDT, Apr 19, Oliver Hollis-Leick, United Kingdom
The very image of a Human being smashing a weapon into the skull of a baby seal is barbaric, have we in the 21st century still not overcome this primitive approach to life, that it can be murdered like this unnecessarily? People speak of the human soul, and the wonder of human compassion so much these days, but how can anyone with compassion, pound the skull of a child, until it's brains spill over the ice, that is the true action of humanity, greed and murder for personal gain, if we are ever to grow as a species, this kind of thing must stop now. There are other ways to live and survive, why are people refusing to embrace them? STOP SEAL CLUBBING
# 80,492:
8:15 am PDT, Apr 19, Blanka Marešová, Czech Republic
# 80,491:
8:13 am PDT, Apr 19, Kateřina Filipská, Czech Republic
# 80,490:
7:11 am PDT, Apr 19, Name not displayed, India
Please stop this savageness
# 80,489:
6:51 am PDT, Apr 19, Name not displayed, Germany
# 80,488:
6:14 am PDT, Apr 19, Name not displayed, Czech Republic
# 80,487:
5:50 am PDT, Apr 19, Name not displayed, United Kingdom
We have already caused enough destruction to their environment let nature be
# 80,486:
4:48 am PDT, Apr 19, Name not displayed, United Kingdom
This is the most cruel cold hearted act any human could do on a poor defenceless BABY Animal
# 80,485:
2:16 am PDT, Apr 19, Fairy Dust, Netherlands
Stop the useless killing NOW!!!!
# 80,484:
10:38 pm PDT, Apr 18, Veronika Pohorska, Czech Republic
# 80,483:
10:27 pm PDT, Apr 18, Deana Hatfield, Oregon
I am devistated by the actions of these so called civil human who are killing these seals in such a manner. Discusted
# 80,482:
10:01 pm PDT, Apr 18, Silviane Silverio, Brazil
# 80,481:
7:20 pm PDT, Apr 18, Lauren Regina Faria Leite, Brazil
One Person is unable to sort this out by himself.Fight for animal's rights.Please We need to fight to protect the seals To kill? It isn't just!! Save the seals
# 80,480:
4:31 pm PDT, Apr 18, Vanessa Araújo, Brazil
# 80,479:
4:20 pm PDT, Apr 18, Helen Forsythe, United Kingdom
# 80,478:
3:35 pm PDT, Apr 18, Izabela Oliveira, Brazil
# 80,477:
1:39 pm PDT, Apr 18, Name not displayed, United Kingdom
# 80,476:
12:36 pm PDT, Apr 18, Ana Carolina, Brazil
# 80,475:
12:19 pm PDT, Apr 18, Sabina Valešová, Czech Republic
chci proti tomu bojovat protože to je velmi ošklivé a vůči tulením mláďatům velice nefér ať si ti lovci představý,že by tohle někdo dělal jejich dětem jak by se jim to asi líbilo .....anglicky teda moc zatim neumim teprv se učim,ale jim v angličtině vzkážu je tohle!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CANADIANS HUNTSMEN ARE SWINES promiňte mi vulgárnost,ale jinak se to říct nedá....,ale také je prosím ať se prohrabou v rozumu a řeknou si proč to to vlastně dělám peníze přece nejsou vše co je důležitější mít prachy a zabít několik set bezbraných zvířat je to srabárna a ne nějaké posilnění a ti lidé co to dělají jsou velcí hlupáci a jestli to takhle půjde dál tak na planetě nebudou už žádný tak krásní tvorové a jestli to takhle chtějí tak prosím a stejně jednou budou litovat a navíc neni vám tam co to řídíte těch zvířat aspoň trochu líto,ale stejně jednou se vám to vrátí a budete toho litovat věřte mi na světě ještě ta spravedlnost aspoň trochu je vrátí se vám to a hodně špatně
# 80,474:
11:40 am PDT, Apr 18, John Brophy, California
# 80,473:
10:44 am PDT, Apr 18, Dave Nelson, Canada
# 80,472:
9:48 am PDT, Apr 18, Name not displayed, United Kingdom
they are not our animals to kill!!!!!!!!! leave them alone
# 80,471:
8:46 am PDT, Apr 18, Yanjie Wang, Canada
Stop killing! We don't need their skin!!
# 80,469:
7:45 am PDT, Apr 18, Name not displayed, Czech Republic
I hate people who killed them. It is horrible.
# 80,468:
7:43 am PDT, Apr 18, Linda Dorsett, United Kingdom
Just stop it now......it's barbaric!
# 80,467:
7:34 am PDT, Apr 18, Carlos Roberto Gargel Jr, Brazil
# 80,466:
6:47 am PDT, Apr 18, Šárka Stejskalová, Czech Republic
# 80,465:
6:12 am PDT, Apr 18, Name not displayed, Finland
That's awfully WRONG. Killing any animal for fun is absolutely horrifying!!
# 80,464:
2:29 am PDT, Apr 18, Ramkumar Jagadeeswaran, United Kingdom
Please stop killing those beautiful baby seals in a rutless way
# 80,463:
12:59 am PDT, Apr 18, Giannis Sk, Greece
ÍÔŃĎĐÇ ÓÁÓ!!ÎĹÖÔÉËÉĆĹÔÁÉ ÔĎ ÁÍČŃŮĐÉÍĎ ĹÉÄĎÓ!!
# 80,462:
12:36 am PDT, Apr 18, Patrick De Maeyer, Germany
it´s easy to kill these harmless animals they have no chance against their brutal murders. So let´s unite and try to do something in defence of the mighty whale and the gentle seal.
# 80,461:
12:35 am PDT, Apr 18, Kateřina Horáková, Czech Republic
# 80,460:
11:22 pm PDT, Apr 17, Nestor ELYN, Belgium
Mens onterend!!!!!!! (dishonouring human being)
# 80,459:
3:22 pm PDT, Apr 17, Amanda Dias, Brazil
Espero que funcione. Năo consigo acreditar que tem gente no mundo capaz de fazer uma coisa dessas!
# 80,458:
1:29 pm PDT, Apr 17, Eruza Jaquetti Polak, Brazil
# 80,457:
11:50 am PDT, Apr 17, Name not displayed, Brazil
# 80,456:
11:31 am PDT, Apr 17, Name not displayed, United Kingdom
# 80,455:
11:13 am PDT, Apr 17, Name not displayed, Netherlands
please people , open your eyes let us get together and stop this please
# 80,454:
10:19 am PDT, Apr 17, Elder Oliveira, Brazil
Acabem com isso!!! Stop the killing!!! It's a shame what men do with the world!!!
# 80,453:
9:43 am PDT, Apr 17, Luisa Sidra, Austria
LET US STAND UP TOGETHER AGAINST THIS TERRIBLE KILLING !!!!!!!!! TIME IS HIGHEST TO CHANGE OUR WAY OF THINKING and PROTECT the DEFENCELESS CREATURES,these MAGNIFICENT CREATURES, which are much better than HUMANS !!! Learn our children to be human and kind and save and PROTECT our NATURE from this KILLERS, because the are the FUTURE !!!!!
# 80,452:
8:02 am PDT, Apr 17, Robert Timmons, Canada
# 80,451:
7:05 am PDT, Apr 17, Name not displayed, Brazil
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