The Seal Hunt Begins Again....

[Cataholic]

Every year I receive email notification of this horrible occurrence. It sickens my heart and soul. I don't know how to make it stop, though I do continue to contribute to the Humane Society.

Please help them stop this.


https://community.hsus.org/humane/no...er_id=21845597

[Cinder & Smoke]

I don't know how to make it stop,
though I do continue to contribute to the Humane Society.

Don't by seal products!

Thankfully, buying seal products is outlawed in the USA ...
from MSNBC.com >>>

"People around the world are shocked to know that Canada, which is perceived as one of the most progressive nations in the world, allows this outdated, archaic slaughter to continue," Aldworth said.
The United States has banned Canadian seal products since 1972. The Netherlands and Belgium also ban seal products. The European Union is considering a ban on all seal products, having outlawed the sale of the white pelts of baby seals in 1983.

Youngest pups can't be killed
Registered hunters in Canada are now not allowed to kill seal pups that haven't molted their downy white fur, typically when 10 to 21 days old.

Animal-rights groups say the seal hunt, the largest marine mammal hunt in the world, is cruel, difficult to monitor, ravages the seal population and doesn't provide a lot of money for sealers.

Sealers and the Fisheries Department defend the hunt as sustainable, humane and well-managed and say it provides supplemental income for isolated fishing communities that have been hurt by the decline in cod stocks.

Fishermen sell seal pelts mostly for the fashion industry in Norway, Russia and China, as well as blubber for oil, earning about $78 for each seal. The 2006 take of some 335,000 seals brought in about $25 million."

[Randi]

It is SO sickening!! It's not that these people are starving, they simply do it money. Argghhh!!! I really hope it will stop!!

[caseysmom]

Thats disgusting and I was shocked to see its in Canada.

[Cataholic]

Sealers and the Fisheries Department defend the hunt as sustainable, humane and well-managed and say it provides supplemental income for isolated fishing communities that have been hurt by the decline in cod stocks.

Just like the beef industry said here, UNTIL it the inhumane treatment was caught on tape.

Shame on the seal clubbers. Shame on them.

[Cinder & Smoke]

Canada tries the "See no evil ..." approach.

From a HSUS email sent out today >>>

Just before dawn this morning, the annual hunt for baby seals began in Canada.

Over the next few weeks, 275,000 harp seals will be brutally clubbed or shot for their fur. Incredibly, though,
many people believe that Canada ended this hunt in the 1980s. But it's still happening, right now.
That's why the sealers don't want us here -- with our cameras rolling.

For four years, The Humane Society of the United States' ProtectSeals team has stood its ground
as Canada's extraordinary harp seal nurseries are transformed each spring into bloody killing fields.
The sealers have rammed our cars, smashed our boats, and brandished the very same clubs that
they use to kill baby seals -- all in a vain attempt to intimidate us.

Then yesterday, Canada’s government took an unprecedented step:
It refused to issue hunt observation permits to our team -- and to journalists -
- in time for us to document the slaughter this morning. This means that sealers,
if they have reached the seals by now, are killing baby seals without witnesses.
Which is exactly what they want.

[lizbud]

I don't think that every animal rights group will stay away. I hope a
few show up anyway & expose their horrible practice. If they feel that
guilty, they shouldn't allow the killing.

[lizbud]

If anyone wants to learn more about this annual killing,check out the
HSUS website. There is a daily count.


http://www.hsus.org/index-seals.html