Fellow BPOers,
I know some of you live in Newfoundland and Labrador and disagree with this, but I'm going to post it anyway.
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 many 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 their fur.
More than 220,000 seal supporters have already pledged to boycott Canadian seafood, sending a clear message to a fishing industry that makes only
2% of its income from killing seals. In the months since the boycott was launched, more than 400 seafood wholesalers, restaurants, and grocery chains have pledged support for the campaign. Already, the value of Canadian seafood exports to the United States has declined by more than $150 million. More and more, the citizens of the world are showing their opposition to the seal hunt, as the growing success of the Canadian seafood boycott and the recent bans on seal products in Greenland and Italy show. The hunt is not only cruel and inhumane -- it is economically unnecessary.
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 going to the link below and sending an e-mail to Prime Minister Harper immediately. Thank you!
https://community.hsus.org/campaign/harper_protectseals?rk=edaFC7p1SXEPW