Stop the Seal Hunt!
Yes, unfortunately it’s that time of year again. That time of year when a horde of questionably endowed thugs take to the ice to batter and skin hundreds of thousands of defenceless seal pups.
IFAW desperately need your help and support, in both attempting to stop the hunt and also sending monitors to the ice in case it happens. Please please please visit StopTheSealHunt.org and help stop this madness - every single effort could make the difference!
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April 8th, 2008 at 6:06 am
please stop this seal hunting..
its sooooo so cruel
i dont think it should happen
everyone deserves a life….and i mean animals to
its Not fair :@
April 8th, 2008 at 6:08 am
STOP THIS RIGHT NOW
IT IS THE MOST UNFAIR THING THAT I’VE HEARD IN MY LIFE
STOP STOP STOP STOP STOP STOP STOP
April 8th, 2008 at 6:09 am
im with alisia and louise
Make more groups and lets stand out ground ..who’s in with me
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April 16th, 2008 at 11:46 am
I want to educate seal hunt protestors since the majority of the information you have is based on half truths and propaganda.
“The seal hunt is cruel and barbaric”
How is the seal hunt cruel and barbaric? The majority of seals killed today are killed with riffles, they are not clubbed (although that method has been scientifically proven to be amongst the most humane methods) and they are not skinned alive. This protest is based on emotion, half truths, and propaganda when arguments SHOULD be based on fact.
Conservation? The harp seal quota for 2007 was 270,000 and the estimated size of the seal herd off Atlantic Canada: 5.5 million (Source: DFO)
Whitecoat seals?
Whitecoats are newborn harp seals. Most Canadians can recall pictures of whitecoated seal pups being clubbed. The images were so inflammatory that Canada banned all hunting of whitecoats and bluebacks (in fact hooded seals) in 1987. however, you’d never know that from some of the anti-sealing groups that still prominently display pictures of whitecoats on their websites and in fundraising materials. One site even features a downloadable video of people hugging whitecoats. The reality is that whitecoats can’t be hunted anymore.
Cruel and seal pups are often skinned alive?
A 2002 report in the Canadian Veterinary Journal found that “the large majority of seals taken during this hunt … are killed in an acceptably humane manner.” This study found that 98 per cent of hunted seals it examined had been killed properly. Regarding the “skinning alive” charge, the DFO says appearances can be deceiving. “Sometimes a seal may appear to be moving after it has been killed,” the DFO says. “However, seals have a swimming reflex that is active, even after death. This reflex falsely appears as though the animal is still alive when it is clearly dead — similar to the reflex in chickens.” Furthermore, the DFO says the club, or “hakapik,” used by many sealers is “an efficient tool” that kills “quickly and humanely.” The Royal Commission on Seals and Sealing in Canada found that clubbing, when properly performed, is at least as humane as killing methods in commercial slaughterhouses.