Stop Canada's Cruel & Senseless Seal Hunt!

We've all seen the baby harp seal pictures -- adorable
dark eyes staring out at us benevolently from pillowy
white fur. But cruelty season is fast-approaching in
Canada. Sign the petition: http://www.care2.com/go/z/21459

In a month's time, hunters armed with clubs and rifles
will bludgeon and shoot to death hundreds of thousands of
baby harp seals out on the ice floes of Eastern Canada.
Shockingly, at least 95% of the seals killed will be less
than three months old and more than 40% may be skinned
alive.

Canada's seal hunt is the largest deliberate slaughter of
marine mammals in the world. The government has set a
legal quota of up to 319,500 seals this year. The seal
pelts are served up to the fashion industry, with
additional profits from meat, oil, and the sale of
genitalia to Asian markets. But the killing of baby seals
doesn't make sense economically or ecologically, nor is
it sustainable.

The Canadian government wants the media and public to
believe that no one cares about the innocent blood spilled
each year. That's why we must create a public outcry!

I BELIEVE THAT WITH ENOUGH CARING PEOPLE WE CAN STOP THIS ATROCITY FOR GOOD!

 

I would sign! I really want too....
but I don't know the fuckin' zipcode!!!

 

Tell me where you are and I'll try and find it for you...there must be somewhere on the internet we can find it

 

Ft.Myers, Florida

 

Try 33901
Thanks babe

 

DONE

Thanks! ^^

 

Thanks for that...and I am so happy to announce that these are the numbers so far from the petition site:

SIGNATURES: 64,688

GOAL: 65,000

DEADLINE: Ongoing ...

This is a HUGE amount of signatures and it will be sending a really powerful message to the Canadian government that this kind of slaughter will not be tolerated by the ordinary people of the world.
I am going to look for an email address for the Canadian Govt so I can send them some more "feedback" on this issue personally.

 

Just to show you why this is worth fighting for:

 

You can send your comments by e-mail to pm@pm.gc.ca or write or fax the Prime Minister’s office at:

Office of the Prime Minister
80 Wellington Street
Ottawa
K1A 0A2

Fax: 613-941-6900

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i dont really know much about the seal hunt, it happens on the other side of the country. i think it has roots in first nations culture. and the northern maritime region is very money and resource poor~i just read that something like 1500 families make their livings for the year off of the spring seal hunt. http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/seal-phoque/facts-faits/facts-faits2004_e.htm#HUMANE%20HARVESTING

over here on the west coast there are still traditional whale hunts. a lot of non-natives are pretty upset about it, but who are we to interfere. it's a part of a culture that was here long before we ever were. people fear what they dont understand.

 

Thanks so much for that information and link...just what I needed!
I don't think any of us are complaining about indigenous cultures and their rights to follow their traditional ways. But we all know it is not really about that. It is about greed and cruelty. Making money through inhumane practices which should never be allowed to continue, even if it was financially justified, which it is not.
I am sorry about some families having to find new ways to earn their living, but I am sure some Medieval Torturers and Hangmen also had to find new livelihoods when we left the Dark Ages too!

 

well this could get some screams from ppl, Why cant they just find a more humane way to do it? I know the seals are cute an cuddly, but it's the way those ppl live...

 

Do what Fey? You think people might actually have a higher moral standing than seals?! Are you sure we shouldn't take away a tradition of a thousand years just so this APPEAL TO PITY can succeed? The way those people live, that is an understatement, it is the only way those people can live. But like I said, the rest of you go on worshiping your fallacy....man you people are a friggin mystery...

 

Here's the new tally from the petition:
SIGNATURES: 71,826

GOAL: 100,000

DEADLINE: Ongoing ...

I don't honestly think this is about someone having a one and only way to make a living. And if skinning baby seals alive is part of that, then maybe they deserve to starve....but they won't...its just to get the skins and fast as possible.
Wake up - its not about a people's survival - its about greed and inhuman cruelty!

 

I've added my signature! Goddess Om you are one righteous lady!

 

Right, exactly! It's not about humans to people like you! Animals are more important aren't they?!

They don't skin them alive man, they knock them on the head, think about it....think that's enough to kill one? Quit reading this pETA type propaganda garbage! And they deserve to starve....right. The Inuit people live in the coldest regions inhabited by man - what do want them to do? Start a logging company?

 

...and spare me another bleeding heart excuse for a compassionless soul...

Do you honestly think the Inuit capable of the brutality witnessed and filmed during these slaughters?

No, this reeks of quite another kind of "human being"

 

You really should do some research before you make erroneous statements like that. The seal pups are still alive after being skinned a large percentage of the time, a very easily confirmed piece of info.
And quit the starvation b.s., the tens of thousands of baby seals that are the subject of this thread do not end up as any Inuit, or other peoples' food. They are left to die out on the ice minus their skin...The skin is the only thing that the sealers take.
I have no issue at all with Inuit hunters that kill a seal for their own use, cuz they use every part of it, nothing is wasted. That is far more noble in my mind than you or me buying a steak wrapped in shrinkwrap and styrofoam. How many of us would be unable to stomach what it takes to get from cow to prepackaged steak? Most, I bet, couldn't kill, skin, and butcher a chicken, let alone a cow.......but they will gladly eat them.
As for a logging company.......what a joke.........that industry has dwindled down in a huge way due to overlogging, so it is not really a good option, eh?

 

pff. So now the Inuit are sub-human for killing other animals. How about the hawk, the bear, the wolf, the eagle, the osprey, the coyote, the fox, the cougar, etc. etc. etc....what are we going to do with these murderers? OMG they are so terrible! Start a petition to stop the needless killing by the Osprey!!!!


Maybe you should familiarize yourself with the meaning of the expression 'bleeding heart'.......

Are you sure you even understand WHY you are advocating this petition? Or is it just an absolutely blind appeal to pity? To yours and to the other board members?

 

heh, research....what's the use????????????????? With you people it's always the appeal to pity..soooo predictable, anyway maybe later, got to go.

 

I guess you can't read, or just can't bother.
I think I will save my precious breath rather than waste it on someone who continually uses terms like "you people"