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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 (IFAW)

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: 4-3-2009
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!

# 53,720:

1:56 pm PDT, Mar 27, Debra Bonsignore, New York
I am incredulous that this barbaric, horrific and unnecessary seal hunt continues, despite protests and disdain from many citizens from numerous countries, including your own.

# 53,719:

11:35 am PDT, Mar 27, Drew Rhoads, Alabama

# 53,718:

11:07 am PDT, Mar 27, Suzanne O'meara, South Africa

# 53,717:

10:24 am PDT, Mar 27, Carron Haight, Massachusetts
The slaughter of innocent harp seal pups is shameful and barbaric. How the Canadian government can allow such an atrociously cruel practice to continue within its borders is unfathomable.

# 53,716:

9:35 am PDT, Mar 27, Anna Pryszlak, Poland

# 53,715:

9:27 am PDT, Mar 27, Danielle Velotta, North Carolina

# 53,714:

6:26 am PDT, Mar 27, Cindy Main, Illinois

# 53,713:

6:08 am PDT, Mar 27, Sherry Frost, Pennsylvania

# 53,712:

5:21 am PDT, Mar 27, Valerie Wasson, Ohio

# 53,711:

3:33 am PDT, Mar 27, Patricia Maillochot, France

# 53,710:

3:20 am PDT, Mar 27, Name not displayed, Netherlands
dont look the other way! look what you all are doing to this animals. THINK!!!!

# 53,709:

11:04 pm PDT, Mar 26, Julie Hannah, Texas

# 53,708:

10:30 pm PDT, Mar 26, Andrew Lauderbaugh, California

# 53,707:

9:50 pm PDT, Mar 26, Susan Furr, North Carolina
There are no words to express my sorror for what you do to these innocent seals. May you all burn in hell!

# 53,706:

9:19 pm PDT, Mar 26, Sheryl Goodwin, Maine

# 53,705:

6:07 pm PDT, Mar 26, KIMBELRY CONOVER, Florida
OUTRAGE IS SPREADING. FACEBOOK AND MYSPACE AND THE MEDIA ARE HELPING WITH THIS. MANY PEOPLE ARE AVOIDING CANADIAN PRODUCTS. STOP THIS CRUELTY BEFORE YOUR COUNTRY SUFFERS ANY MORE.

# 53,704:

3:24 pm PDT, Mar 26, Kianna Jaye, Washington

# 53,703:

2:34 pm PDT, Mar 26, Channing Coker, Alabama

# 53,702:

1:52 pm PDT, Mar 26, Andrea Mcelroy, New York
It is barbaric and disgusting!!!! What is wrong with the Canadians??

# 53,701:

1:28 pm PDT, Mar 26, Iro Kapeloni, Greece

# 53,700:

12:36 pm PDT, Mar 26, Coyote Anderson, Pennsylvania

# 53,699:

12:28 pm PDT, Mar 26, Sergio Morchio, United Kingdom
It simply does not make sense. The Canadian government spends more money subsidising this practice that the revenue generated. At the same time becomes tremendously unpopular worldwide. The 'fishermen' would be better off been trained to work in another activities. The animals themselves are clearly not killed humanly (the majority of the times), as it is evident after watching ample footage of seals still alive after been supposedly 'killed'. And the great majority of Canadians themselves that repell this practice. So, why exactly should this continue to happen?

# 53,698:

11:58 am PDT, Mar 26, Jen Dowdy, Kentucky

# 53,697:

11:34 am PDT, Mar 26, Daniela Morchio, Chile

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11:06 am PDT, Mar 26, Candice Lazarus, New York

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11:00 am PDT, Mar 26, Erica Goodier, New Jersey

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10:58 am PDT, Mar 26, Lauren Snisky, New York

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10:46 am PDT, Mar 26, Ken Lucas, Gibraltar

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10:14 am PDT, Mar 26, Alim Orova, Turkey

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10:05 am PDT, Mar 26, Tammy Galaviz, California

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9:31 am PDT, Mar 26, Patti Habowski, Ohio

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9:08 am PDT, Mar 26, Pamylle Greinke, New York

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8:54 am PDT, Mar 26, Jennie Crespo, Puerto Rico

# 53,687:

8:36 am PDT, Mar 26, Elena Pintilie, Canada

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8:32 am PDT, Mar 26, Name not displayed, United Kingdom
It is an utterly crual act tokill animals in such an inhumane way.

# 53,685:

8:17 am PDT, Mar 26, Airian Lithe, Greece

# 53,684:

8:11 am PDT, Mar 26, Nyack Clancy, New York

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6:49 am PDT, Mar 26, Yesenia Lopez, Spain

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6:46 am PDT, Mar 26, Kara Lemire, North Carolina

# 53,681:

4:10 am PDT, Mar 26, Razvan V., Romania

# 53,680:

3:40 am PDT, Mar 26, Dieneke Posthuma, Netherlands
it's a crime, it's cruel, it's useless. really are you people sick in your head! you are beasts! I wish I could do the same to you, you think you would like this?

# 53,679:

3:27 am PDT, Mar 26, Bartosz Habaj, Poland
It is only an exclusive product which is not necessary for people to live. We have many more other sources of materials, also natural that could be used instead of seal skins. The killing is also done in my opinion in unhumanitary, uncontrolled way. We should not also let seals to extint. How many spiecies have to be erradicated until we stop to destroy our nature? Regards.

# 53,678:

2:54 am PDT, Mar 26, Dimi Spasic, Serbia And Montenegro

# 53,677:

2:09 am PDT, Mar 26, Mary Cook, Kansas
"Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well being of a person or an animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way..." ~Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., 1929 - 1968

# 53,676:

2:04 am PDT, Mar 26, Mary Emerson, Michigan

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9:41 pm PDT, Mar 25, Dana Fillion, Connecticut

# 53,674:

9:07 pm PDT, Mar 25, Holly Newman, Oregon
Anyone who goes around bashing in the skulls of baby animals is sick indeed.

# 53,673:

6:51 pm PDT, Mar 25, Rhonda Nolasco, California

# 53,672:

4:15 pm PDT, Mar 25, Amanda Wynn, North Carolina

# 53,671:

3:37 pm PDT, Mar 25, Branden Hoff, Nevada

# 53,670:

12:51 pm PDT, Mar 25, Kat Moasi Yazzie, Kansas

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12:43 pm PDT, Mar 25, Daniel Garcia, California

# 53,668:

12:15 pm PDT, Mar 25, Lina Valaine, Switzerland

# 53,667:

12:12 pm PDT, Mar 25, Ivona Parkaceva, Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic Of
Stop killing these beautiful animals.

# 53,666:

11:13 am PDT, Mar 25, Teresa Del Castillo, Mexico
Because it�s a crime. No other way to see this massacre.

# 53,665:

9:49 am PDT, Mar 25, Anja MM, Germany
Shame and more shame on you, barbaric Canadians! We don't live in the dark ages anymore. No justifying, no lame excuses anymore for this incredible cruelty to defenseless animals. STOP IT TODAY!!

# 53,664:

9:05 am PDT, Mar 25, Minna Huolman, Finland
Please - it is finally time time to stop this unnecessary cruelty forever. Thank you.

# 53,663:

8:56 am PDT, Mar 25, Mia Huolman, Finland

# 53,662:

7:16 am PDT, Mar 25, Lori Silverstrand, Nebraska
this is an inhume horrible practice against a defenseless animal-and who needs seals hunted? what exactly does the human race need from seals that can't be found from some other place? no one needs seal hides or anything else

# 53,661:

6:55 am PDT, Mar 25, Helen Rowan, Ohio

# 53,660:

6:28 am PDT, Mar 25, Ramona Gehl, Canada

# 53,659:

5:21 am PDT, Mar 25, Rebecca Stache, Germany

# 53,658:

5:06 am PDT, Mar 25, Candee Betancourt, Florida
Because its wrong!!!

# 53,657:

1:08 am PDT, Mar 25, Eileen Shahnazari, California

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