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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!
# 100:
12:07 pm PST, Feb 16, Carmen Rico, Canada
# 99:
11:06 am PST, Feb 16, Sarah Gettel, Virginia
Dont hurt them! What have they done to us? They are sweet and those who harm them should suffer in the same way!
# 98:
10:58 am PST, Feb 16, Courtney J. Stefano, New York
Its terrible these poor animals are being killed needless out of greed and stupidity! There needs to be an end to it immediately before its too late!
# 97:
10:43 am PST, Feb 16, Nicole Van Tassel, Canada
Stop the killing of innocent animals for the selfish few
# 96:
10:27 am PST, Feb 16, Name not displayed, Canada
# 95:
9:20 am PST, Feb 16, Kellie Rain, California
Fur looks stupid and ugly unless it's on the animal that was born with it, and if it's not on it's owner, than the person wearing it looks stupid and ugly, too! STOP CRUELTY!
# 94:
8:48 am PST, Feb 16, V Bostock, United Kingdom
Fur only looks good on the animal that was born with it.
# 93:
7:22 am PST, Feb 16, KACY Utech, Wisconsin
Please stop! Fur makes people look fat & stupid!!
# 92:
7:20 am PST, Feb 16, Tori XYZ, Ohio
PLEASE HELP EVERYONE!!:(
# 91:
6:10 am PST, Feb 16, P Willitts, United Kingdom
# 90:
5:42 am PST, Feb 16, Name not displayed, Texas
# 89:
4:49 am PST, Feb 16, Cheryl Buxton, United Kingdom
# 88:
3:45 am PST, Feb 16, Wp Lm, Malaysia
I hope Canadian residents will urge their government to pass a Law to stop seal hunting or alternatively enforce a fine and jail term for overkilling the seal according to quota set by the fisheries department. A.S.A.P
# 87:
11:42 pm PST, Feb 15, Theresa Vanek, California
I would like to see this cruel act of murdering any kind of Mammal & every Animal and Human bieng have a right to live !!!!The people that are doing this are sick how can they sleep at night!!! this is disgraceful and it is inhumane & Heartless act of Torture and !!!!Someone need's to stop this !!!! They have a right to be on this Earth !! They are here for a reason They are Innocent& sweet!!!And not to mention more Beautiful Alive than the alternative!!
# 86:
11:05 pm PST, Feb 15, Linda Wetherby, Texas
This is a disgrace!
# 85:
10:12 pm PST, Feb 15, Stephen Sloane, Washington D.C.
Man and woman can easily do without seal fur and these mammals have a place in the food chain and ecosystems they inhabit. We don't need to kill them.
# 84:
9:57 pm PST, Feb 15, Sarita Rivers, Ohio
Seals are innocent, intelligent animals who want to live in peace, just as humans do. Please do all you can to end this sick massacre of baby seals! Not only are they being killed for items as completely unnecessry as fur coats, but there is nothing humane about the way in which they are killed. Please don't turn your back on this horrifying cruelty!
# 83:
8:21 pm PST, Feb 15, Katie Dionne, Rhode Island
# 82:
6:56 pm PST, Feb 15, Andrew Christmas, Canada
We should be embarrased that this hunt still happens. It is just another example of Canadian Maritimers destroying our wilderness to export to others. When will we learn?
# 81:
4:23 pm PST, Feb 15, Kerry Scott, Canada
It's murder!
# 80:
4:18 pm PST, Feb 15, Dean Thompson, Texas
Please,stop this needless killing of these beautiful animals.
# 79:
3:28 pm PST, Feb 15, Corinne Myers, Louisiana
I adamantly oppose this ruthless and unnecessary proposal. For goodness' sake, this is the 21st century! We need nothing for ourselves that must be robbed from a seal or any other wild animal. We certainly gain nothing by taking its life that cannot be manufactured.
# 78:
3:16 pm PST, Feb 15, Name not displayed
# 77:
3:05 pm PST, Feb 15, Nicola Lea, Canada
# 76:
2:54 pm PST, Feb 15, Linda Morse, California
# 75:
2:48 pm PST, Feb 15, Robert Richardson, Oklahoma
thats just fucked up!
# 74:
2:34 pm PST, Feb 15, Name not displayed, Brazil
killing of any animals is horrible and should not be done
# 73:
2:32 pm PST, Feb 15, Name not displayed, New York
Its rong to be killing such sweet animals!
# 72:
1:36 pm PST, Feb 15, Brian Stewart, Illinois
I can't believe thier allowed to do this. We need to find these hunters and chop off THIER dicks.
# 71:
1:16 pm PST, Feb 15, Pamela Wells, Texas
# 70:
12:14 pm PST, Feb 15, Marcey Crisan, Michigan
I can't believe the mind-state of some individuals. All I can do is educate our future on these issues.
# 69:
11:41 am PST, Feb 15, Wayne Middleton, Canada
disgusting
# 68:
11:40 am PST, Feb 15, Name not displayed, Illinois
# 67:
10:14 am PST, Feb 15, Tarzan Jane, California
# 66:
9:45 am PST, Feb 15, Name not displayed, United Kingdom
# 65:
9:39 am PST, Feb 15, B Stoffer-Indianapolis, I USA, Indiana
It's just always about money, isn't it. What chance do these poor creatures have when confronted by humans that have no heart? It is a disgrace! Some day they will answer to God for this senseless slaughter, but that doesn't help these babies now.
# 64:
9:38 am PST, Feb 15, Becky Copeland, Canada
# 63:
9:03 am PST, Feb 15, Liyana Yusof, Malaysia
# 62:
8:37 am PST, Feb 15, Renee Posger, Illinois
Omg this makes me so mad that people can acually think it great doing this. I have a great vision in my head that a seal comes up to the seal slougterer and chops their head of and has a human coat. I would love to see that happen.
# 61:
8:24 am PST, Feb 15, Della Oliver, New York
Shame on the Canadian government for letting this happen.
# 60:
7:45 am PST, Feb 15, Ingrid Newkirk, Virginia
# 59:
6:32 am PST, Feb 15, C Warner, Nebraska
stop the killing of these beautiful creatures!
# 58:
6:09 am PST, Feb 15, Jenna Brucher, Iowa
The baby seal kill cannot go on. This has been happening for years, with veterinarians documenting horrible acts of cruelty by these "hunters." The world is watching the actions of the Canadian government; do the right thing and stop the barbaric seal kill.
# 57:
4:41 am PST, Feb 15, Jennifer Vaandering, Belgium
Canada, I thought you had a heart! Stop killing innocent animals!
# 56:
4:39 am PST, Feb 15, Aude Vaandering, Belgium
Canada, as a proud canadian, I thought you respected animals!!!
# 55:
2:06 am PST, Feb 15, Maya Bell, Spain
# 54:
1:39 am PST, Feb 15, Ted Stoffer, Belgium
It is such a horrible thing I have difficulty containing my temper. How can you hold you head up in the morning knowing that you have authorised the killing of so many animals? Do you really think that owning a seal coat is a necessary part of life, adding to the overall quailty? Are you worried that the people killing these animals or sewing their skins together could not find other work? Be realistic.
# 53:
1:14 am PST, Feb 15, Gladys Ramos, Canada
Stop killing innocent animals...
# 52:
9:28 pm PST, Feb 14, Name not displayed, Michigan
# 51:
7:45 pm PST, Feb 14, Norm Gove, Washington
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