Canada clubs baby seals to death
Canada´s annual seal hunt is the largest slaughter of marine mammals on Earth. Last year, the world looked on in horror as the Canadian government permitted the slaughter of more than 330,000 harp seals. During the hunt, baby seals are shot or repeatedly clubbed. Sealers bludgeon the animals with clubs and "hakapiks" (clubs with metal hooks on their ends) and drag the seals - who are still conscious - across the ice floes with boat hooks. An estimated 42 per cent of the animals are skinned alive. Hunters toss dead and dying seals into heaps and leave their carcasses to rot on the ice floes because there is no market for seal meat. Veterinarians who have investigated the hunt have found that hunters routinely fail to comply with Canada´s animal welfare standards.
It is legal in Canada to kill seal pups when they are about 12 days old. During last year´s hunt, almost all the seals killed were 3 months old or younger. Many had not yet learned how to swim or eaten their first solid meals. Baby seals are helpless and have no way to escape from the sealers´ clubs.
The sealing industry claims that it is killing more seals because of an increased demand for fur. Anyone wearing the fur of minks, rabbits, foxes or any other kind of animal is responsible for creating a demand for fur, which pushes Canadian hunters to club more seals each year.
As there is almost no market for seal meat, the carcasses are normally left to rot on the ice or they are dumped into the ocean. There is a small market for seal oil (both for industrial purposes and for human consumption) and in the past, seal penises were sold in Asian markets as an aphrodisiac. The only economically valuable part of the seal is its fur - a non-essential luxury product that no one really needs.
Information: Peta.org.uk
Canada's Barbaric Slaughter of Baby Seals
Baby Seals clubbed to death
The annual clubbing, ice-picking or shooting of harp and hooded seals peaks in springtime, with a legalized quota of up to 350,000 kills. Most of the seal pelt bounty is dispatched to international fur and fashion industries, with side profits from meat, oil and the sale of penises to Asian aphrodisiac markets.How many buyers of seal products are likely to reflect on the bloody origins of their goods? Probably few, as the sellers stay mum on the gory details of the Canadian kill. No asking, no telling.
Much as the governments of Norway, Japan and Iceland justify their slaughtering of whales for economic and traditional reasons, Canada and its Department of Fisheries and Oceans defend the seal hunt with similar speciousness. The cuddly little creatures, it is said, are really troublemakers. They are ravenous eaters of cod, which means the fishing industry has a depleted catch in the North Atlantic. It's overlooked that overfishing is the major cause of the scarcity of cod. There is also the balance of nature: Seals actually sustain cod by eating cod predators such as squid and skates. This balance prevailed for millions of years, eons before factory boats and armed humans showed up.
No killing of marine mammals--anywhere--is larger than the Canadian seal hunt. Nor is any wildlife animal as defenseless as the slow-moving and guileless seal. The Humane Society of the United States, citing Canadian government figures, reports that 96 percent of the 286,238 seals reported killed last year were 12 days to 12 weeks old. These are the pups who have yet to learn to swim or eat on their own.
Report by Comlan McCarthy
The Sadistic killing of Baby Seals
When is the human race going to change its barbaric, and inhumane ways towards animals.
The quotas are increasing every year due to the fashion industry promoting fur in fashion.
Canada, still kills baby seals
The continuing butchery of Canada's baby seals for fur
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