RE: Are Your Senators Speaking Up for Seals?

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From: Mom=*Family First*
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Date: Apr 3, 2009 7:19 PM
Subject: Are Your Senators Speaking Up for Seals?


Are Your Senators Speaking Up for Seals?





For days, the ProtectSeals team has lived in a horrible limbo. Heavy ice has locked sealing boats in the harbor, keeping them from the seal pups just a few miles off the shores.


But it's only a matter of time: The ice floes are pulling apart, slowly creating paths between the sealers and their prey, and the winds have pushed some pups into the sealers' path. Watching this is devastating, but we know that documenting the cruelty of the slaughter will help shut down Canada's commercial seal hunt forever.


If you are a U.S. citizen, there is something that you can do right now to help: Ask your senators to help end the cruel and senseless seal hunt by co-sponsoring the Levin-Collins Canadian seal hunt resolution.

Canada increasingly stands alone in defending its barbaric hunt -- Russia just ended its own seal slaughter, and nations around the world are banning their trade in seal products. And in a matter of weeks, the European Union will consider a prohibition on its trade in seal products, starving sealers of one of the largest markets for seal fur fashion.


The U.S. government is Canada's most important trading partner, so it can play a key role in convincing Canada to stop the slaughter.
If your senators haven't already signed on, please urge them to co-sponsor the Canadian seal hunt resolution today.


While Canada's leaders are cynically trying to convince the world that the slaughter is "humane," we are up here documenting the same kind of cruelty we bear witness to every single year. Just days ago, I saw sealers beat terrified three-week-old pups to death in front of each other, failing to check if a seal was unconscious or dead before cutting her open.


As the world condemns the slaughter, the Canadian government is allowing fishermen to kill a staggering 280,000 seals this year, up 5,000 from last year. And even if sealers exceed that quota, the government isn't likely to punish them. Sealers have killed tens of thousands of seals more than they're allowed to in recent years, and the government has stood idly by.


I say enough is enough. Ask your senators to tell Canada to end the hunt.


Thank you for speaking up for seals from home.


Sincerely,
Rebecca Aldworth
Director of Canadian Wildlife Issues
The Humane Society of the United States


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