WFLF ANTI SEALING CAMPAIGN: Demonstration re the Canadian Seal Slaughter

Concerned Citizens in Los Angeles to Demonstrate at the Canadian Consulate in order to Pressure Canada to End the Annual
Canadian Seal Slaughter

Event Date: Tuesday, March 15th, 2010
Time: 12:00 - 3:00 pm

Location: Canadian Consulate, 550 South Hope Street, Downtown Los Angeles
Contact: Ian Robichaud, Harpseals.org
ian108@earthlink.net
310-266-9009

What & Why: Hundreds of concerned citizens in Los Angeles will gather outside the Canadian Consulate building in downtown
Los Angeles, to protest Canada's annual harp seal slaughter and promote the boycott of Canadian seafood. This event is part
of an international effort taking place in cities all around the world this week, marking the International Day of Action for
the Seals. Despite the danger to the seal population of insufficient sea ice, caused by global warming, the Canadian government
is allowing and promoting the wholesale slaughter of hundreds of thousands of seal pups - for their fur alone. This is the
largest slaughter of marine mammals in the world.

Citizens will present a petition to the Consul General of Canada with over 1,000 signatures demanding an end to this
industrial-scale slaughter of seal pups. Citizens will also educate passersby about the Canadian seafood boycott. This boycott
is designed to put direct economic pressure on the Canadian fishing industry, the industry behind this massacre.

Each spring in Atlantic Canada, a few thousand off-season Canadian fishermen beat and shoot over 200,000 defenseless baby
harp seals. In a matter of weeks, a pristine white nursery turns crimson, with hundreds of thousands of lifeless, skinless
bodies strewn all over the ice and left to rot. This industrial slaughter nets these off-season fishermen about $40 a pelt
and provides them only about 5% of their yearly income - in a good year.
Since it is the support of the Canadian seafood industry that perpetuates the slaughter, the Canadian seafood boycott can
pressure this industry to take a stand against this annual massacre. The U.S. is the largest consumer of Canadian seafood,
importing about 70% of Canada's seafood exports. Since the beginning of the boycott, Canadian seafood exports to the U.S.
have dropped over a billion dollars. American consumers are putting pressure on Canada's seafood industry to end the massacres
once and for all. Today, citizens of Los Angeles will be helping in this effort.

For more information, visit:
www.harpseals.org
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=130992256969884

www.protectseals.org
www.seashepherd.org

Grey Seals in Canada Still Need Your Help

SLAUGHTER OF GREY SEALS IN NOVA SCOTIA
There is another slaughter of baby seals on the east coast of Canada each year. This slaughter...happens very quietly, but the nature of the slaughter is the same. Fishermen...descend on recently weaned defenseless seal pups and proceed to shoot and bludgeon them to death. The pups' skin is then ripped from their bodies and oftentimes the carcasses are left to rot...

Polls indicate most Americans and Europeans condemn Canada's harp seal hunt, with many prepared to boycott Canadian seafood until it ends. The unwarranted slaughter of grey seals further disgraces Canada and its treatment of marine wildlife.

Nova Scotia fishermen annually destroy grey seal pups by the thousands.
During the ambush on nursery grounds, thick-sculled pups are clubbed with wooden bats.

Even though the European Commission is evaluating a seal products ban for the entire European Union. A scientific review from the European Food and Safety Authority (EFSA) revealed critical flaws in Canada's Marine Mammal Regulations. Kill tactics for both grey and harp seal hunts are denounced in EFSA's "Animal Welfare Aspects of the Killing and Skinning of Seals."

Despite the European Commission's call for a prohibition on seal goods from countries that engage in inhumane slaughter -- Minister Chisholm wants to inflate the yearly grey-seal quota and broaden the commercial hunt. Minister Chisholm concedes there is no conclusive evidence linking grey seals to diminishing fish stock.

DFO scientists have no decisive proof that culling seals will help cod recovery. In fact, cod represents 2% of the seals' intake and they actually consume other species that prey on cod.

Sable Island is safeguarded as the world’s largest grey seal breeding colony. Public wilderness areas do not belong to a small number of fishermen intent on killing seals they say eat "their" fish.

Canada's grey seal hunt (like its harp seal hunt) lacks ecological, financial or ethical justification. I encourage authorities to terminate the slaughter of grey seals in Nova Scotia.

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Harpseals.org and Voice for Seals team up Efforts toward Ending Canada's Cruel Seal Hunt.

Please continue to spread the word for the baby seals. We are not part time animal lovers and activists. We cannot ignore atrocities like these when news suggests that it's over. It's up to us to keep this issue in the forefront of the news by continuing to send letters to editors, participating in educational demonstrations at grocery stores and restaurants or attending local events such as World Fest & Earth Day, etc., or signing up to participate as ambassadors for the baby seals through Harpseals.org., or circulating the petitions etc. Keep visiting our Billboard for more ways you can help.

Harpseals.org and Voice for Seals team up efforts toward ending Canada's cruel seal hunt. This joining serves as an example of the true spirit behind all those who continue to campaign on behalf of animal welfare and toward ending animal cruelty. Let's make a difference together!

Harpseals.org is in need of a Secretary. Position is Pro Bono. Applicant should reside in the U.S. Contact Harpseals.org for further information about this and other positions available.

Russian Seal Farms for Fur

There are thousands of seals raised in farms, like this, in Arkangelsk Oblast, in the Northwest territory of Russia. They call them “farms” but they are more like concentration camps.

A small white seal skin in good condition costs around $ 7000 USD which is why the brutal killers try by all means to avoid damaging the fur regardless of cruelty issues. One method is a shot in the head where death is instantaneous but the skin is left with the hole of the projectile. The other method is more brutal and consists of beating the animal with a stick of wood, the hakapik, leaving the skin intact.Over 90% of seals killed by this process are only a few weeks or even days old.

Canada, under enormous international pressure, argues that this practice is prohibited for commercial purposes and they only grant licences to individuals to reach an annual quota of one quarter of a million. The only country that still allows this cruel "farming" activity is primitive Russia.

Ask California Legislators to Protect San Diego Seals

When California deeded Casa beach to the City of San Diego in 1931, it listed a number of permissible uses for the beach, including swimming. Because the city's interpretation of the deed puts recreation before conservation, swimmers and sunbathers who want Casa Beach all to themselves have harassed harbor seals at the beach. Some seals have suffered injury and death as a result. The State Legislature could at any time change the terms of the trust to explicitly require the City to protect the seals. Please Take Action to ask your state legislators to sponsor legislation that would change the terms of the 1931 state tidelands grant to protect the seals.

Californian's: Send an automated email! http://ga0.org/campaign/sdseals

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