Rock star Paul McCartney and his wife, Heather, have issued another appeal for Canada to end the East Coat seal hunt. The plea came as hunters and protesters prepare to head out onto the ice for the start of the annual slaughter Saturday. The McCartneys said Friday in a video message from London that it's time for the Canadian government to consider a licence buy-back program to compensate sealers while ending a hunt that is facing mounting international condemnation. "This is a win-win solution," Paul McCartney said in a message shown to news reporters in Charlottetown by the Humane Society of the United States. "Fishermen would be compensated for any lost revenue when the hunt is closed and Canada would have a graceful way to put an end to a cruel and needless practice." The star couple visited the seal nursery in the Gulf of St. Lawrence earlier this month. They said they had to come before the hunt began because it would have broken their hearts to see such beautiful animals clubbed and skinned. At least 325,000 seals, most of them between two weeks and three months old, will be harvested in this year's hunt. Heather McCartney said she is shocked the Canadian government has turned a blind eye to all the protests, boycotts and appeals to end the hunt. "We actually pleaded to the Canadian government to stop the seal hunt, but they have refused," she said. "We're devastated to learn that 325,000 of these harp seals, almost all of them defenceless babies, will be clubbed and shot to death." The Humane Society of the United States, a large animal rights organization that brought the McCartneys to the gulf in early March, is one of several groups protesting this year's hunt. The society is behind a global boycott of Canadian seafood, which is attempting to pressure Ottawa into ending the hunt by cutting off markets. Anti-hunt forces are also pushing for more bans on seal products. The United States is one of several countries that has banned the importation of marine mammal products. Canadian officials defend the hunt as an economic benefit for coastal communities in Atlantic Canada and Quebec. They also say that it is necessary to control the size of seal herds in order to help depleted fish stocks recover. source: http://www.mytelus.com/news/article.do?pag...6&lid=today+box to me i tihnk this is fckin stupid.....sooner or later the seals on this planet are gonna be extinct like the other animals. If i was living in that part of Canada I would snipe out all the hunters >_>
Wow. Sounds like something they would be doing in America actually. (Yeah i live in America, I can insult the country. )
yea it started today/..... what they do is take a huge club and kill the seals and break the skulls with it and they call it the "most humane" way of killing em..... if only i could do something...
os what do hey do with the dead seals do they sell their furs or sell the meat, the amount they are killing is amazing cant they do some kind of gentenic modification to stop them breding so much
