The Shame of Canada Has Begun... Again

Seal Hunt Facts Canada Doesn't Want
You To Know About

Two separate veterinary reports that studied the 2001 seal hunt, one commissioned by the Canadian government, show numerous instances where animals were clubbed or shot and not rendered immediately unconscious.

Together, the two reports also document that a number of animals each year are hooked and dragged across the ice while still conscious and some of these are still alive by the time they reach the decks of sealing vessels.

Here's what one such international team of five independent veterinarians found:

• 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.

The veterinarian team concluded that the existing regulations were neither being respected nor enforced, and that the seal hunt is resulting in considerable and unacceptable suffering.

Facts Courtesy of IFAW.ORG

The seal hunt is such bullshit and it needs to stop now! If every person in this country was forced to watch the blood bath, it would be it's last year.

The US banned imports of seal products in 1972. In 1972! And it's 2006 and we're still allowing this madness to go on. We as Canadians are so quick to point out other Countries atrocities but so easily ignore our own. We let the East Coast Fisheries bully us and do whatever the fuck they please and our Government backs them every step of the way.

And Harp Seals are not fish!!!
They're Mammals Goddamnit.

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