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Created by Elaine Sutcliffe on March 10, 2007, 12:13 pm

Canada's annual seal hunt is the largest slaughter of marine animals on Earth. Last year, more than 330,000 baby harp seals were beaten to death so that they could be made into fur coats, collars, and cuffs. The Canadian government claims that hunters only kill adult seals, but 97 percent of the seals killed last year were less than 3 months of age.

Most of these seals are too young to realize that they should try to escape when their killers approach. They lie totally vulnerable on the ice as their heads are bashed in with clubs. Many are dragged across the ice—still conscious—with boat hooks. Often these sensitive animals are skinned alive for their fur. Their bodies are left to rot on the ice because there is no market for their meat.

The Canadian government has authorized hunters to kill more than 335,000 harp seals this year—one of the largest quotas in history.



I, the undersigned, hereby request that the Canadian government end the cruel seal hunt -the largest slaughter of marine mammals on the planet. Sealers bludgeon the seals with clubs, drag conscious seals across the ice floes with boat hooks, and toss dead and dying animals into heaps, leaving their carcasses to rot because there is no market for their meat. Please stop the cruel slaughter of baby seals and put a permanent end to this blight on Canada's international reputation.
      


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569 2 weeks ago    Katie N: I think its cruel, mean and heartless (just to name a few) I think it should stop and that we need to make a difference!!!
568 2 weeks ago    Anna Thorp: I support this petition. Not only should Seal hunting be banned INDEFINITLEY, the hunting off ALL animals should rightly be banned!!
567 28 Jul 2008 - 22:22    carole box : I support this petition. Terrible terrible cruelty and waste.
566 15 Jul 2008 - 12:13    Michal : STOP THE KILLING! BAN THE TRADE!
565 9 Jun 2008 - 9:33    Sasha : this is a disgusting sport, and Canadians should feel ashamed.
564 6 May 2008 - 17:16    Toks Akiwumi : This is an obsene crime!
563 6 May 2008 - 17:07    Simon Hirst :
562 1 May 2008 - 0:38    Kimberley Howard : STOP THE HUNTING YOU WANKERS!
561 25 Apr 2008 - 19:14    Oscar Maya : The seal massacre is cruel, barbaric, sadistic,immoral, unethical and there is no room for it in the 21st century.
560 9 Apr 2008 - 6:20    Darren Emery : Seal Hunting is very very wrong...
559 8 Apr 2008 - 14:59    melanie hoilman :
558 7 Apr 2008 - 15:48    aimee traeden : seal hunting is a huge act of cruelty and disgusts me...those people should be clubbed.
557 7 Apr 2008 - 4:26    Caitlin : i find this 'sport' as what they call it DISGUSTING who in there right mind would do this to poor inocent creatures! There is NO excuse for it. The people who do it must have extremly SICK minds! I have seen pictures on the internet of the poor seals and i CRYED for hour just to think of these poor animals suffering while most of us sit back and watch 'eastenders' SOMETHING has GOT to be done!!!!! No one in the goverment should be supporting this dissgusting 'sport'!!!
556 2 Apr 2008 - 2:20    Elle : I feel no government in the right mind should support any act like this. SAVE THE SEALS!
555 31 Mar 2008 - 6:25    charlotte auld :
554 31 Mar 2008 - 3:59    Wendy H :
553 30 Mar 2008 - 19:43    Shelley Ferro : You need to find a way to educate your people so they can make a living without having to stoop so low as to killing babies. What will you kill next?Supplement the incomes of these fishing communities, and teach them skills that do not demand a need to kill.You are losing more tourist dollars than you can count, because so many of us refuse to visit a country that is so barbaric.
552 30 Mar 2008 - 15:00    Grant : please be kind to all animals
551 30 Mar 2008 - 14:36    Irina : People, we should stop it!
550 30 Mar 2008 - 7:31    SIMON REED :
549 29 Mar 2008 - 23:06    Beatriz de Toledo Barros :
548 29 Mar 2008 - 19:27    shirley aylward : Mankind at its worst. Please stop this slaughter NOW. I thought we were all trying to save our planet with all its riches in wildlife for future generations!!!
547 29 Mar 2008 - 17:11    Patricia H. : Can please Canada do something to stop these evil people from killing those innocent animal?
546 29 Mar 2008 - 15:34    Laura Aylward : I think this act is disgusting. We do not have the right to play God.It is not humane. How can hitting an innocent tiny animal in the head be humane? One blow won't always kill it and im sure there are countless times that these people mearly miss the skull and just cause horrific injuries to the animal and leave it to die slowly and in a huge amount of pain. You wouldn't do this to another human being so how the hell can this be ok to do to living animals who CAN NOT fight back??It makes me so angry hearing these murderers thinking that somehow they are doing some good to control the seal population. These animals are killed by whales, fishing nets etc, is that not enough??? If this is all because of our fish population then it is up to us humans to stop eating so much fish. The animlas are entiltiled to live on this planet as much as we are, and it is time someone put a STOP to this horrible annual event by these nasty cold hearted murderers. Why do we keep thinking that us humans are the most dominant species, i hope one day this changes, as we are doing an extremley good job a ruining this world.It breaks my heart and i feel extremely strongly about any murdering of any innocent animal.I have never got involved in any thing like this before but i am just beginning to realise that everyone has to make a stand and do what they can to make a difference to the way in which this world is going.
545 28 Mar 2008 - 13:00    Sobia M Khan : It is inhumane and reflects such hypocracy it is beyond disgusting. Carrying out such acts, begs the question to be asked - are we really the more intelligent, empathetical and rational species? We should treat others as we would like to be treated.
544 26 Mar 2008 - 12:46    noone : *******s, give me a club and let me loose on the hunters. What's wrong with this world?
543 26 Mar 2008 - 12:27    Elizabeth Edwards : Stop these shameful senseless killings, all species have a right to inhabit this planet not just humans!!
542 25 Mar 2008 - 20:12    Julie Thorpe :
541 24 Mar 2008 - 14:17    Ruxandra Knight :
540 19 Mar 2008 - 10:49    Sarah Johnson :
539 18 Mar 2008 - 2:05    nicole falcone : The world will go on without seal meat to eat or seal fur to wear. Are there any logical people out there? Leave these beings alone.
538 17 Mar 2008 - 2:14    Teresa M. Moss :
537 16 Mar 2008 - 3:50    Jenny :
536 11 Mar 2008 - 10:12    dawn : STOP THE SENSELESS KILLING!!!
535 11 Mar 2008 - 7:20    Sasha Wisniowski : I become ashamed of my country when of think of the inhumane slaughter of animals every year for little to no reason
534 10 Mar 2008 - 9:18    Rosalie Hughes : Stop this horrifying practise now!!
533 9 Mar 2008 - 23:48    Robin Walker :
532 9 Mar 2008 - 20:01    Vicky Littlejohn : Hunters, put yourselves in the seals shoes. We are all mammals, all made of the same stuff. It would feel the same. Imagine it. Canada, this is totally unjustifiable. You're making your whole country seem barbaric.
531 23 Feb 2008 - 19:58    abbie wilson : seal hunting is sick they have a right to live as much as we do so why should they be killed !!
530 23 Feb 2008 - 19:47    Janet Cox :
529 22 Feb 2008 - 8:38    James Dickens :
528 22 Feb 2008 - 7:50    LES COX :
527 21 Feb 2008 - 17:29    j. cox : hope this helps
526 4 Feb 2008 - 17:54    Christine Mackay : The barbaric slaughter of harp seal pups must end. Shame on the Canadian government for allowing this barbaric practice to continue.
525 2 Feb 2008 - 20:23    natalie mamwell (11 yrs o : If people stopped buying products made from animals, this would stop! i have seen fake fur coats and real fur coats and i dont see any difference at all. It's just cruel and they only kill endangered animals for money so please tell your friends and relatives about this seal petition and the more people sign it, the better.
524 2 Feb 2008 - 20:12    karen worthington : I wish these people that kill the seals would realise the longer this killing goes on the more endangered they will become, why, in a world where they should be trying to save animals, are they going around killing them??!!!
523 29 Jan 2008 - 17:35    paul mountford :
522 11 Jan 2008 - 6:47    colleenmae : we should preserve the seal so that our sons and daughters could enjoy them not only in the books. please do not make them instinct!
521 27 Dec 2007 - 0:29    beatriz wolf : basta de matar a indefensos animalitos
520 23 Dec 2007 - 17:04    tess doerfler :
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