When I came to Kos, I planned to write someting about the upcoming 2008 elections....but, then I saw the ads here at Kos for
www.stopthesealhunt.org and www.protectseals.org...and my heart about stopped! I forgot! I had forgotten that they still did this horrible mean and bloody act toward those cuties still! God damn. I know the world has gone to Hell and Dumb Dubya is possibly the anti-christ (ironic, huh?)and there are horrible wars and rumors of wars going on...but in all this noise, of how our earth is in so many man made conflicts, I had forgotten that every year...for reasons that are just not acceptable any more...hundreds of thousands of baby harp seals are clubbed to death each year in the Canadian tundra. Damn! How f-ed up is that?!
www.stopthesealhunt.org
I truly love me them baby seals. Actually, I love all seals...but the baby pups are so cute, it makes you extra special glad to be a fellow mammal. I live on a sailboat and a few years ago my dog (who was part australian shepherd and part sea otter)and I spent a couple of days romping and swimming with some seals and Im telling ya...theyre really just sea going puppies. They know how to play and if you show them you mean no harm, they are lots of fun. Lots and lots of fun!
Oh my god look at that picture on the ad here at this site! (also go to the flcker link at www.stopthesealhunt.org for more pics) Look at those black button eyes! These are like the cutests critters in the whole world and theyre geting clubbed!....aw man...I dont wanna live in a world where this is happening....I know there are bigger issues out there (though not to Them ...and remember, after all, seals are people too...) and ALL animals on this planet (including the vast majority of humans) are treated horribly each day by the corporate monsters that be...but, just
when it comes to these floating fur balls of fun...cant we all just draw the line here and so NO! We are better than this! If we're not...oh man...things just may be fubr...well...the LEAST we can do to try to be....better, is to just sign their petition and send an email to the Canadian PM and ask them to just STOP being so MEAN to these darling little ice puppies?! Please, please, please!
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go to www.stopthesealhunt.org to sign the petition and to take other action
Take Action to End the Seal Hunt
Canada’s annual commercial seal hunt is a cruel and unethical practice that produces a product nobody needs. 98% of the animals killed in the past two years have been baby seals between 2 weeks to 3 months old. And despite the potentially devastating effects of global warming to harp seal breeding grounds, the Canadian government has raised the annual seal hunt quotas to the highest levels in history.
Please urge the Canadian Prime Minister and Canadian Ambassador to end the cruelty of the seal hunt by completing the letter below and clicking submit. Please add your own comments to make your letter even more effective. After your letter is submitted, you will be prompted to enter your profile into the 300,000 Actions for 300,000 Seals global community.
Take Action
Message Recipients
Stephen Harper - Prime Minister
Michael Wilson - Ambassador
I am deeply opposed to Canada's annual cruel, wasteful, and unsustainable commercial slaughter of harp seal pups.
Harp seals are facing a new threat—global warming—which is resulting in dramatically reduced ice coverage in the Gulf of St Lawrence and off Newfoundland.
Your government is on record stating it will take ‘real action’ on global warming. And yet you have ignored the one tangible action your government could take to combat the effects of global warming—dramatically reducing the seal hunt quota.
Apart from these serious conservation concerns shared by many Canadians, the seal hunt targets baby animals, a practice that is unacceptable to the majority of Canadians. In the past two years, 98% of the seals killed have been less than three months old. Severe cruelty has been witnessed and documented at the hunt during the past 30 years and incidents of cruelty are not decreasing.
This hunt only continues to exist because it is propped up by a range of government subsidies and tax-payers money. More and more countries around the world are adopting legislation to ban the import of seal products.
Instead of investing in meaningful employment opportunities for Newfoundlanders, the federal government continues to fund and support a seasonal and wasteful seal hunt which draws national and international criticism to a proud region of Canada trying to build a reputation for high-tech research and first-class environmental tourism.
I urge you to act immediately to end this unnecessary cruelty to seals and to restore Canada's pride as a humane and ecologically responsible society.
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Go to www.stopthesealhunt.org to sign on to the boycott of Canadian seafood and to send a email to the Canadian Prime Minister and Ambassador. Tell them that clubbing baby seals sucks. I mean REALLY SUCKS. Like worse thing on the planet sucks. Like killer whales arent enough to worry about for these cute little balls o fur sucks...