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STOP THE SEAL HUNT!

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StopTheSealHunt.com







The truth will break your heart!

Our humanity is measured by how we care for the vulnerable among us.

What is more vulnerable than a newborn seal pup, stranded helpless and alone on the ice?

A baby seal can be legally killed once it molts its white fur, which usually begins at about 12 days of age. The small, unprotected newborn of any species should not be preyed upon, never mind bludgeoned with a club.

Seals are routinely clubbed or shot and left to suffer on the ice, then dragged over the sides of boats with sharpened metal hooks. Few sealers are observed checking to see if a seal is still alive before they skin it.

There is no excuse!

The products of the hunt are an unnecessary luxury. Most of the harp seal carcasses (including the meat) are simply abandoned on the ice. This isnt killing for food or survival, its killing for fashion.

Despite years of research by the Canadian government trying to develop new seal products, the only economically valuable parts of the seal are the pelts of defenseless seal pups, a non-essential luxury product no one really needs. In many countries, this hunt would be completely illegal.

What has happened to mercy, to beauty, to the value of a beating heart? As humans we have the ability to consciously treat other living beings with respect and dignity. It is this ability, this choice, that makes us human. Simply put, the Canadian seal hunt fails this choice miserably.

How long can we continue to ignore such cruelty in the name of commercial profit?

Fast Facts about Canada's Seal Hunt

It's a cruel slaughter. -

Fully 95% of the harp seals killed over the past five years have been under three months of age. At the time of slaughter, many of these defenseless pups had not yet eaten their first solid food or taken their first swimthey literally had no escape from the "hunters."


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