The hunters, armed with clubs and other 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 were 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.
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!
Over a MILLION seals have been killed within 3 years (and not counting the baby seals, that die away from the sealers, their mothers and the adult males).
Please, write a letter or petition and send it by mail to:
The Right Honourable Stephen Harper
Office of the Prime Minister
80 Wellington Street
Ottawa, ON K1A 0A2
Canada
Constituency Tel (for Canadians): 613-992-4211
Fax: 613-941-6900
E-mail: pm@pm.gc.ca
80 Wellington Street
Ottawa, ON K1A 0A2
Canada
Constituency Tel (for Canadians): 613-992-4211
Fax: 613-941-6900
E-mail: pm@pm.gc.ca
For a letter writting campaign, send petitions or organiza a protest near you, go to: http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/world/embassies/cra-en.asp
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PHOTO CREDIT: S-04-10 IFAW International Fund For Animal Welfare/ S. Cook