NOT Proud to be Canadian...when it comes to the Seal Hunt.

The LARGEST slaughter of marine mammals on EARTH - happens in Canada with the annual Seal Hunt.
Not a proud moment for this Canadian.

Last year, our peace-loving government permitted the slaughter of more than 330,000 harp seals.
These beautiful baby animals - all usually under 3 months of age are shot or repeatedly clubbed during this horrific "Canadian Tradition".
Sealers bludgeon the animals with clubs and “hakapiks” (clubs with metal hooks on their ends) and drag the seals—who are still conscious—across the ice floes with boat hooks. An estimated 42 percent of the animals are skinned alive. Hunters toss dead and dying seals into heaps and leave their carcasses to rot on the ice floes because there is no market for seal meat. Veterinarians who have investigated the hunt have found that hunters routinely fail to comply with Canada’s animal welfare standards.
It is legal in Canada to kill seal pups when they are about 12 days old. Many seals killed in last years hunt had not yet learned how to swim or eaten their first solid meals. Baby seals are helpless and have no way to escape from the sealers’ clubs.
These are puppies being slaughtered.
PUPPIES. In this country.
There is NO MARKET FOR SEAL MEAT.
This is a HUNT that is based SOLELY on FASHION - for their fur.
The sealing industry claims that it is killing more seals because of an increased demand for fur. Although the U.S. banned the sale of seal fur in 1972, anyone wearing the fur of minks, rabbits, foxes, or any other kind of animal is responsible for creating a demand for fur, which pushes Canadian hunters to club more seals each year.
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Please tell everyone you know about Canada’s cruel slaughter of baby seals and urge them to contact the Canadian government. Forward this page to a friend.
We live in the year 2007.
We do not need fur to keep warm any more than we need fur as a status symbol.
We need to tell "rich" people that fur only makes them look STUPID.
Disgusting.
IDIOTIC.
Cruel. Inhumane.
FUR is not a status symbol - unless you want your status to read "Heartless ASSHOLE".
Canada is NOT benefitting from this HORRIBLE tradition.
Seals are peaceful, sweet creatures - and although there is a plethora of HORRIFIC seal hunt pictures - I chose to post this picture - which I feel captures the essence and beauty and peacefulness of this hunted animal.
Seriously - no one can justify this practice.
It's cruel - any way you slice it - and no matter what kind of market we are in - no one can justify profit off suffering or killing for something as trivial as fashion.
You disappoint me, Canada.
Please do anything you can - this is one part of a heritage we need to disown.

Peace,

Dan