Brussels mulls action on “inhumane” Canadian seal killings, the European Weekly
"The European Union is contemplating action against the alleged culling of young seals by Canada, the spokeswoman for Stavros Dimas, European environmental commissioner told journalists last week."
Canadians to fight proposed EU sealing ban, the Montreal Gazette
"A Canadian lobby group that includes Nunavut Premier Paul Okalik will be in London Monday to begin a week-long bid to fight against a threatened European Union seal hunt ban."
Sealers 'breaking humane law,'' the New Zealand Herald
"Animal rights activists have claimed that sealers were not totally complying with a new rule designed to make their hunt more humane on the ice off the Gulf of St Lawrence.
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"'We've just filmed four seals being killed and not a single one was bled out before moving it,' said Sheryl Fink, a hunt observer with IFAW."
In photos: 'Canada Seal Hunt,' Monsters and Critics
"Photo released 30 March 2008 by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) showing a hunter as he clubs a harp seal pup on the opening day of Canada's 2008 commercial seal hunt in the Gulf of St. Lawrence 28 March 2008 . This seal was struck by the hunter and wounded before it escaped into the water. This is known as seal that has been struck and lost."
Survey: Should Canada End the Seal Hunt?, Treehugger
"That great Canadian tradition, the seal hunt, has started; 325,000 will die in the next few weeks. Many are against it; the Prime Minister says Canada was victim of an "international propaganda campaign," and insisted the cull would be carried out humanely."
IFAW has led the fight to stop the cruel slaughter of seal pups
since the 1960's, resulting in the import ban of newborn whitecoat
seal pelts in 1985. Today, with offices in 15 countries, IFAW is the
world's leading animal welfare
organization, fighting to save seals both on the ice and through vital
scientific and market research.
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The slaughterers should be photographed and put on a list of people killing inhumanely animals and therefore be known to the world
Posted by: Peter Schorle | April 01, 2008 at 01:51 AM
When are you going to start up the "stop the slaughter of bugs on our roads" group. Or are they not cute enough?
Posted by: brett | April 01, 2008 at 01:23 PM
Brett, , if you think this is funny you need some help .... hey I got an idea just ask a sealer maybe he can clubb you ... don't worry it's a quick death ..
Posted by: Tim | April 01, 2008 at 09:39 PM
Cruelty that has to be stopped.
Posted by: Tsipora Kolet | April 02, 2008 at 07:18 AM
After viewing the brutal slaughter of baby seals, I'm once again ashamed to be part of the human race. There is no excuse for a government allowing this sort of behavior. Life has a way of balancing itself out. What you put out eventually comes back to you. I wish I could be there when the great balancing takes place with these brutal club wielding idiots.
Posted by: Gary Toth | April 03, 2008 at 12:29 AM
After viewing the brutal slaughter of baby seals, I'm once again ashamed to be part of the human race. There is no excuse for a government allowing this sort of behavior. Life has a way of balancing itself out. What you put out eventually comes back to you. I wish I could be there when the great balancing takes place with these brutal club wielding idiots.
Posted by: Gary Toth | April 03, 2008 at 12:31 AM