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Every year sealers bludgeon seals with clubs and “hakapiks” (clubs with a metal hook on the end), drag conscious seals across the ice floes with boat hooks, and toss dead and dying animals into heaps and leave their carcasses to rot because there is no market for their meat. Seals are also shot, but bludgeoning is preferred, because pelt buyers deduct money for every bullet hole in a seal’s skin. Veterinarians who studied a past hunt concluded that the hunters failed to comply with Canada’s basic animal welfare standards and that 42 percent of the seals appeared to have been skinned alive. Despite Canada’s ‘new and improved’ methods being implemented this year, sealers are still slaughtering these pups in the same way they have for previous years. It’s unconscionable. For more information, please visit www.seashepherd.org or www.hsus.org for first-hand accounts and ways you can help save the seals. All proceeds will be donated to SeaShepherd.org

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Every year sealers bludgeon seals with clubs and “hakapiks” (clubs with a metal hook on the end), drag conscious seals across the ice floes with boat hooks, and toss dead and dying animals into heaps and leave their carcasses to rot because there is no market for their meat. Seals are also shot, but bludgeoning is preferred, because pelt buyers deduct money for every bullet hole in a seal’s skin. Veterinarians who studied a past hunt concluded that the hunters failed to comply with Canada’s basic animal welfare standards and that 42 percent of the seals appeared to have been skinned alive. Despite Canada’s ‘new and improved’ methods being implemented this year, sealers are still slaughtering these pups in the same way they have for previous years. It’s unconscionable. For more information, please visit www.seashepherd.org or www.hsus.org for first-hand accounts and ways you can help save the seals. All proceeds will be donated to SeaShepherd.org

created by crockpot (4/20/2008 6:12 PM)

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crockpot said 4/21/2008

 

Unfortunately they don't do it out of a need... they do it for the fur. It's all about the money. A recent Canadian newspaper recently did an article about how that's a bunch of hooey, though; which is exactly what the rest of the world has been saying for years. It was refreshing, though, to see one of Canada's own step up to bat and say how financially stupid the whole thing is.
I'm glad they don't do it over where you are!! :)

Eddy_G said 4/21/2008

 

We have seals off our coast. they are not culled and do not pose any problem to our fishermen. I have never understood the canadian need to cull

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