Subject: Urgent: speak against Canada's cruel and senseless baby seal hunt!
Date: 22 Feb 2005 10:53:21 -0800
From: Animals & Environment Alerts <ecoalerts@care2.com>
To: Lavone Zeviar <healing_hands1@telus.net>

Dear Lavone,

We've all seen the baby harp seal pictures -- adorable
dark eyes staring out at us benevolently from pillowy
white fur. But cruelty season is fast-approaching in
Canada. Sign the petition: http://www.care2.com/go/z/21459

In a month's time, hunters armed with clubs and rifles
will bludgeon and shoot to death hundreds of thousands of
baby harp seals out on the ice floes of Eastern Canada.
Shockingly, at least 95% of the seals killed will be less
than three months old and more than 40% may be skinned
alive.

Canada's seal hunt is the largest deliberate slaughter of
marine mammals in the world. The government has set a
legal quota of up to 319,500 seals this year. The seal
pelts are served up to the fashion industry, with
additional profits from meat, oil, and the sale of
genitalia to Asian markets. But the killing of baby seals
doesn't make sense economically or ecologically, nor is
it sustainable.

The Canadian government wants the media and public to
believe that no one cares about the innocent blood spilled
each year. That's why we must create a public outcry!

Tell the Canadian Parliament that you DO CARE about the
cruelty inflicted upon these seals and that the hunt is
indefensible!

Sign the petition: http://www.care2.com/go/z/21459
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Thank you for taking action today!

- Dawn S
Care2 and ThePetitionSite team