Tens of thousands of seals are shot and bludgeoned to death by sealers every year by permission of the Canadian government. A seal may not always die with a single strike to the head. And frequently, they are abandoned to a protracted, agonizing death on the ice. Even though imports of seal fur have been outlawed in all major markets—including the United States, the European Union, and Russia—this atrocity persists. Please see video here.
Some will be executed by gunshot, while others will have hakapiks—hooked clubs with metal ends that pierce—crushed into their skulls. The seals’ bodies will be dumped onto piles to decay on the ice after their skins are ripped off.
The clubs and weapons of the sealers have no means of escape for the defenseless baby seals. Seals are often murdered between three weeks and three months of age, however they can be slaughtered as soon as they lose their distinctive white fur, which can happen as early as a few weeks of life.
About 350,000 seals were killed by sealers ten years ago; however, in 2015, that number fell to 35,000, the lowest in twenty years. Recent years have seen less than 1,000 sealers take part in the killing due to a shortage of markets for seal products. Additionally, the slaughter requires millions of dollars in assistance before it can be profitable, and seal-fur processors acknowledge that they are hoarding pelts since they are unable to sell them. Please see video here.
The vast majority of seals killed in Canada are slaughtered for commercial purposes; these hunts are distinct from Inuit subsistence hunting. However, the Canadian government often uses Native people as a scapegoat in an attempt to dishonestly defend the commercial massacre.
The financial backing of the Canadian government is essential for the survival of the sealing business. Please see here Canada’s shame.
We’ve come a long way since PETA and good people everywhere cried out against the slaughter: Please see here as Canadian celebrities who out against Canada’s seal slaughter.
“Each spring, the Canadian government authorizes its commercial fishing industry to kill hundreds of thousands of baby seals. They are impaled on hooks, dragged across the ice and cut open—and their pelts are often stockpiled in a warehouse.” Credit Humane Society of the United States. Please see video here.
The good news is that Canada’s commercial seal slaughter is barely hanging on, signaling the end of this cruelty. You must assist these animals in putting an end to it.
Please put pressure on Prime Minister Trudeau to stop federal funding for the commercial killing of seals in order to aid endangered creatures. Please sign petition here.
Please click on the link here to The Greenpeace Foundation SAVE THE SEALS CAMPAIGN for more information how you can help save the seals!
Disapproval of Seal Slaughter Worldwide!
Seal-derived items are prohibited in over thirty nations, including the United States and European Union members.5 A resolution demanding a halt to the killing of seals in Canada was unanimously approved by the US Senate.6 Following Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s declaration that the killing of seals is a “bloody business,” Russia outlawed the killing of harp seals younger than a year old and later prohibited the import of any seal goods.7.8 In 2013, the World Trade Organization maintained the EU ban on the hunt, citing “public moral concerns” about it and recommending that exclusions be “revised.”9.
In an extraordinary decision made in 2014, the WTO dismissed Canada’s and Norway’s objections to the prohibition, citing the need to “protect public morals.”10
Scenes from the Killing!
Russia, Greenland, Namibia, Canada, and Norway all slaughter seals. In Canada, up to 400,000 seals may be shot or bludgeoned during the yearly commercial seal slaughter.2. Although the killing of so-called “whitecoats” was outlawed in Canada in 1987, most harp and gray seals can still be shot or clubbed to death before they turn one month old since they lose their white fur at the age of two weeks.3.
Clubs, guns, and “hakapiks,” which are large wooden clubs with a barbed metal hammer head on top, are among the many weapons used by sealers. To prevent tearing their fur, sealers frequently hook young seals in the mouth, cheek, or eye before dragging them across the ice to be skinned.
In 2007, a veterinary team from the University of Bristol included a senior research fellow, and they witnessed a seal massacre in Newfoundland. Widespread disregard for the requirements of Canada’s marine mammal regulations” and sealers who failed to check the seals’ vital signs before to skinning them were among the things he reported. The scientists found that over half of the seals exhibited “some response to stimuli after being hooked and dragged,” and that most of the seals who were shot did not die from the initial shot.4
Approximately 500,000 seals are killed each year, mostly for fashion, causing them agony and sometimes lasting effects.1 The carnage goes on in spite of a global outcry against the brutality of the slaughter and numerous countries’ bans on seal products.
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