“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”Mahatma Gandhi |
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- Humane Society International Canada
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"The Biggest Seal Hunt in 50 Years" |
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| "79% of the sealers did not check to see if an animal was dead before skinning it. In 40% of the kills a sealer had to strike the seal a second time, presumably because it was still conscious after the first blow or shot. 42% of killed seals examined were found to have minimal or no fractures, suggesting a high probability that these seals were conscious when skinned." More... International Fund for Animal Welfare |
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| "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... International Fund for Animal Welfare |
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| "True Confessions: Sealers Testify to the Cruelty of the Hunt" More... International Fund for Animal Welfare |
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| "With nearly one million seals killed in the past three years alone, Canada’s commercial seal hunt has become the largest, most brutal slaughter of marine mammals on earth." More... The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) |
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| "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." The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) |
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| "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... ProtectSeals Campaign Director Pat Ragan. |
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| Heather and Paul McCartney bring hope, and a media spotlight to Canada's Seals "Paul McCartney said on the ice floes: Canada is known as a great nation....But this is something that leaves a stain on the character of the Canadian people and we don't think that's right. I don't think the vast amount of Canadians think that's right." More ... The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) |
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| "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. You don't manage an ecosystem by beating it to death." More ... Greenpeace |
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