Please help stop this senseless slaughter

[spankedbrit]

The 2006 Canadian seal hunt left at least 354,344 seals dead -- almost all of them were babies as young as 12 days.

Today is the day that the 2007 seal hunt starts. Please help us to stop the seal hunt forever by joining the Canadian seafood and tourism boycott. https://community.hsus.org/campaign/protectseals/

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Can you honestly watch this video and not feel upset and angry at what is going on? If it makes you angry then please use that anger constructively to help stop this madness once and for all.


Seal hunting is an off-season activity for Canada's east coast commercial fishermen. They earn a small fraction of their incomes from selling seal skins to the fur industry: only a reported $17.5 million (Canadian) annually, compared to the nearly $3 billion taken in by the Canadian fishing industry from seafood exports to the United States. The connection between the commercial fishing industry and the seal hunt gives consumers all over the world the power to end the cruel slaughter of seals.

The Canadian fishing industry has suffered a $350 million (Canadian) decline in the value of snow crab exports to the United States.

Once you've signed the pledge, you'll be able to identify Canadian seafood by using HSUS's downloadable pocket guide. You can also find out which restaurants and other businesses have also signed the pledge--and which ones to contact to ask them to sign on.

Thanks for joining me in ending this cruel hunt.

Here's a link to show you what you can do to help. http://www.hsus.org/marine_mammals/p...ou_can_do.html

Here is the email address of the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans of Canada: Min@dfo-mpo.gc.ca.
You can address it to the Honorable Loyola Hearn.

Please forward this message to everyone on your contact list. If you belong to any other forums then please post this message there if you are allowed, to help spread the word and increase pressure on the Canadian government to stop this senseless slaughter.

Thank you!

[RG_]

Even off-topic, I wonder if this qualifies more as an appeal/ad type of post, rather than a commentary of some kind?

[lynne]

I agree RG. Or maybe spam?

[emily]

omg how sad

[spankedbrit]

How can you regard this post as spam? It's an important issue. Something that has been going on for years and needs to be stopped.

[sarah thorne]

It seems to me that if the true concern is to stop seal hunting and expose those companies who practice it, that one would not be required to sign a pledge in order to receive the names of the fishing companies who partake in it, in order to "have the power" to stop it.

Perhaps not spam, but a solicitation. (That's what spam is tho, isn't it?)

sarah

[spankingbaker]

I think in an off topic members should post anything they want. Sarah obviously feels very strongly about this subject. If you don't agree then just move on don't watch the video forget about it. The vitriol is way out of proportion and as a newbie it's not something I expected to see. We all have a common iterest so lets stick together.