Every year the Canadian government allows hunters to bludgeon to death hundreds of thousands of baby harp seals. During the slaughter, they are shot or repeatedly clubbed. Sealers bludgeon the animals with clubs and hakapiks (which are metal hook tipped clubs) and drag the usually still conscious seals across the ice floes with boat hooks. Hunters toss dead and dying seals into heaps and leave the carcasses to rot on ice floes because there is no market for seal meat. Veterinarians have found while investigating this horror that hunters routinely fail to comply with Canada's animal welfare standards.
Baby seals are helpless and have no way to escape the clubs. A Washington Post article on the seal slaughter described it this way: "[A] seal appearing to gasp for air, blood running from its nose as it lies on an ice floe. Not far away, a sealer sharpens his knife blade. The seal seems to be thrashing as it's fur is sliced from it's torso." I literally just quivered as I typed the quote. Can you imagine the terror and pain? I can't. I get a hangnail and get all upset.. I smash my finger in a drawer, I'm crying.. but but beat, hooked, skinned alive and slaughtered.........
The Christian Science Monitor wrote: "The few terrified survivors, left to crawl through the carnage. The shouted obscenities and threats from the sealers, gunfire cracking ominously in the distance. The pitiful cries of the pups; the repellent thuds of clubs raining down on soft skulls. Sealers' laughter echoing across the in floes." Many seals who are killed are 3 months old or younger and haven't learned how to swim or eaten their first solid meal.
The sealing industry says that they're killing more seals because of an increased demand for fur. Although the U.S. banned the sale of seal fur in 1972, anyone wearing the for of minks, rabbits, foxes, or any other kind of animal is responsible for creating a demand for fur, which pushes Canadian hunters to club more seals each year. Then in 2009, the European Union voted to end the sale of seal products, and the U.S. Senate unanimously passed U.S. Senate Resolution 84, calling for an immediate end to the annual seal slaughter.
Oh man, it would be fabulous is everyone who reals this contacts the Canadian government and ask for an immediate end to this cruel slaughter. Thank you.
Baby seals are helpless and have no way to escape the clubs. A Washington Post article on the seal slaughter described it this way: "[A] seal appearing to gasp for air, blood running from its nose as it lies on an ice floe. Not far away, a sealer sharpens his knife blade. The seal seems to be thrashing as it's fur is sliced from it's torso." I literally just quivered as I typed the quote. Can you imagine the terror and pain? I can't. I get a hangnail and get all upset.. I smash my finger in a drawer, I'm crying.. but but beat, hooked, skinned alive and slaughtered.........
The Christian Science Monitor wrote: "The few terrified survivors, left to crawl through the carnage. The shouted obscenities and threats from the sealers, gunfire cracking ominously in the distance. The pitiful cries of the pups; the repellent thuds of clubs raining down on soft skulls. Sealers' laughter echoing across the in floes." Many seals who are killed are 3 months old or younger and haven't learned how to swim or eaten their first solid meal.
The sealing industry says that they're killing more seals because of an increased demand for fur. Although the U.S. banned the sale of seal fur in 1972, anyone wearing the for of minks, rabbits, foxes, or any other kind of animal is responsible for creating a demand for fur, which pushes Canadian hunters to club more seals each year. Then in 2009, the European Union voted to end the sale of seal products, and the U.S. Senate unanimously passed U.S. Senate Resolution 84, calling for an immediate end to the annual seal slaughter.
Oh man, it would be fabulous is everyone who reals this contacts the Canadian government and ask for an immediate end to this cruel slaughter. Thank you.
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