Sadistic seal hunt in Canada

Spencer Warren writes:

With more than 317,000 seals killed for their fur in 2005 alone—98% of whom were babies under three months of age—Canada’s harp seal hunt is the largest commercial hunt of marine mammals on earth. It is certainly the cruelest.

Although Canadian citizens don’t support the seal hunt, the fishing industry and the federal government have refused to end it. With the recent election of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, there is renewed hope that 2006 will be the last year that seals are clubbed and shot to death on Canadian ice for.

As Prime Minister Harper begins his term, we have an unprecedented opportunity to influence the Canadian government and save hundreds of thousands of baby seals.

Please take action today to help end the cruel Canadian seal hunts by sending an e-mail to Prime Minister Harper immediately. Thank you!

Also, the importation of these seal products (ie the fur of the baby and infant seals used in fashion) into the US was banned by Congress in the early seventies. Recently, Denmark, Italy and Belgium have imposed such a ban, and The Netherlands is now considering such legislation.

Here are photos of the massacre (some Canadians use the word “harvest”—how Orwellian!), including a seal after having been skinned alive.

Canadian regulations are supposed to prevent this, but this government that preens itself on its sensitivity does not enforce the regulations.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at March 27, 2006 10:33 PM | Send