Saturday, March 29, 2008

Rotten bastards! Slaughter of Baby Seals started today.

Just before dawn this morning, the annual hunt for baby seals began in Canada.
Over the next few weeks, 275,000 harp seals will be brutally clubbed with ax's or shot for their fur. Incredibly, though, many people believe that Canada ended this hunt in the 1980s. But it's still happening, right now. That's why the sealers don't want The Humane Society there -- with their cameras rolling.
For four years, The Humane Society of the United States' ProtectSeals team has stood its ground as Canada's extraordinary harp seal nurseries are transformed each spring into bloody killing fields. The sealers have rammed our cars, smashed our boats, and brandished the very same clubs that they use to kill baby seals -- all in a vain attempt to intimidate us.
Then yesterday, Canada’s government took an unprecedented step: It refused to issue hunt observation permits to our team -- and to journalists -- in time for us to document the slaughter this morning. This means that sealers, if they have reached the seals by now, are killing baby seals without witnesses. Which is exactly what they want.

When will anyone who can afford a fur coat wake up to the suffering their purchase condones? I cry for these seals. I cry for the thousand bison already slaughtered this year in Yellowstone National Park, I cry for whole wolf packs being shot down from airplanes and of course for all food animals cruelly slaughtered.
Boycott the China Olympics of less you want to be served every breed of dog as a snack.

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