Condemn Canadian government’s slaughter of Harp seals

Wednesday, April 6, 2005

There is a slaughter of Harp seals going on in Canada. In the slaughter that will run through May, at least 300,000 animals will be shot or clubbed. Counting the animals killed this year, a total of 975,000 have been slaughtered since 2003.

Most seals killed are between two and 12 weeks old, unable to swim and completely helpless. They are skinned so their pelts can be used for coats. In previous years some 42 percent of the seals may have been skinned alive and conscious, according to research conducted by independent veterinarians.

“Hunters” are supposed to ensure the seals are dead, but an observer from the Humane Society of the United States stated that she had seen seals moving and crying left in piles to die, as well as live seals stomped and impaled.

The justification for this slaughter is that fishstocks need to replenish themselves. But there is evidence that the problem is not the seals, but over-fishing.

The United States Senate passed Resolution 33 this year urging Canada to stop the “hunt” in part because of this evidence.

Many groups, including the Human Society of the United States, are spearheading a boycott of Canadian seafood in an effort to end such hunts.

I urge you to join this boycott and write letters to Canada’s prime minister and the minister of Canada’s department of fisheries and oceans. Please help end this.

Adonia David

Conservation specialist

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