“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” |
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- HSUS Protect Seals |
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"The Biggest Seal Hunt in 50 Years" "79% of the sealers did not check to see if an animal was dead before skinning it. "IFAW has submitted video evidence of more than 660 probable violations of Canada’s Marine Mammal Regulations to the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. These abuses include skinning or bleeding live seals, stockpiling dead and dying animals, dragging live seals across the ice with sharpened steel hooks and shooting seals and leaving them to suffer. To date, not a single charge has been laid in response." More... "True Confessions: Sealers Testify to the Cruelty of the Hunt" More... "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 unfortunate that Canadian citizens, most of whom oppose the commercial seal hunt, must suffer the economic consequences of the government's refusal to end the hunt. We can only ask how much longer the Canadian government is willing to pay the price for an annual hunt that brings in so little money to so few fishermen, while causing the hideous suffering of so many innocent seals," More... "Heather and Paul McCartney Bring Hope, and a Media Spotlight, to Canada's Seals "The human greed that caused the collapse of the cod fishery should not be an excuse to start pushing another species in the same ecosystem to dangerously low levels, especially when no one knows for sure what effects this will have. |
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