Canada's Annual Seal Slaughter Set for Late March

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Canada's Annual Seal Slaughter Set for Late March

 

Source > http://www.furkills.org/canadian_seal.shtml

 

 

Join IDA's Protest in San Francisco and Boycott

Canadian Seafood

In late March this year, the single largest mass

slaughter of mammals anywhere in the world will once

again take place off the East Coast of Canada.

Endorsed by the Canadian Government, fishermen will

commence the brutal slaughter of over 300,000 harp

seals. Last year, more than 98.5% of the seals killed

were newborn pups less than two months old.

 

Sealing is an off-season activity conducted by

commercial fishermen from Canada's East Coast. They

beat or shoot the defenseless seal pups with rifles,

clubs and hakapiks - long wooden clubs with sharp

hooked spikes at one end. It really isn't much of a

" hunt " because the seals are so young they are barely

able to even move.

 

On average, fishermen make about one-twentieth of

their annual incomes from sealing (the rest comes from

working in commercial fisheries). Canada exports over

three billion dollars worth of seafood a year to the

U.S. alone, but only makes a few million from the seal

slaughter. IDA joins animal protection groups around

the world in calling for people everywhere to boycott

Canadian seafood products until Canada stops their

annual massacre for good.

 

What You Can Do:

 

1. Contact officials at the Embassy of Canada and

tell them that you oppose the Canadian seal slaughter

and will boycott Canadian seafood until their

government agrees to end the killing.

 

The Embassy of Canada

501 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.

Washington, D.C.

20001-2114, USA

Tel: (202) 682-1740

Fax: (202) 682-7619

E-mail: webmaster

 

2. IDA has long demonstrated against Canada's cruel

killing of seals. If you live in the San Francisco Bay

Area, please join IDA's first protest this year

against the seal slaughter.

 

What: Protest against Canadian seal slaughter

When: Wednesday, March 15th from 12:00 noon -

2:00 p.m.

Where: San Francisco/Silicon Valley Consulate

General of Canada, 580 California Street, 14th floor,

San Francisco

 

To RSVP and for directions, please contact IDA

Campaign Coordinator Melissa Gonzalez at

Melissa or (415) 386-3728 ext. 228. Also

contact Melissa if you are interested in organizing an

event in your own community.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3. If you eat fish or other aquatic animals, please

do not buy Canadian seafood until Canada agrees to end

the seal slaughter for good. Please also inform your

friends how buying Canadian seafood supports the

massacre of baby seals.

4. Please attend a demonstration in your area on

March 15. A full list is

below.

 

Austin, TX

Wed., March 15, 2006

Time: 5:30 p.m.

Location: The steps of the Capitol building

Sponsored by: ACTION FOR ANIMALS (AFA)

For more info, contact Timothy Verret at (512)

719-4374

 

Salt Lake City, UT

Wed., March 15, 2006

Time: 5:30-7:00 p.m.

Location: Red Lobster on 2700 South and 1300

East

Sponsored by Utah Animal Rights Coalition (URAC)

For more info, contact, Leici Hendrix,

leici

 

Seattle

Wednesday, March 15, 2006

Time: 12:00 Noon

Location: The Consulate General of Canada, 6th

Ave. and Stewart St., Downtown Seattle

Sponsored: Sea Shepherd

Contact: Connie Domenech, connie

 

Los Angeles

Wednesday, March 15, 2006

Time: 12:00-4:00

Location: Consulate General of Canada, 550 South

Hope Street, Los Angeles

Sponsored: Harpseals.org

Contact: Ian Robichaud, info

Phone: (310) 392-4742

 

Vancouver B.C.

Wednesday, March 15, 2006

Time: 12:00 Noon

Location: Fisheries and Oceans - Pacific Region

Office - Suite 200 - 401 Burrard Street, Vancouver,

B.C.

Sponsored: Sea Shepherd

Contact: Steve Thompson, s-thompson

 

Denver, Colorado

Wednesday, March 15th

Time: 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

Location: Consulate General of Canada, 1625

Broadway, Denver

Sponsored: Rocky Mountain Animal Defense

Website: www.rmad.org

Contact: Ann Swissdorf at vegann

 

Washington, DC

Wednesday, March 15

Time: 12:00 noon-1:00 p.m.

Location: Canadian Embassy, 501 Pennsylvania

Avenue NW, Washington, D.C.

(near the Archives/Navy Memorial and Gallery

Place/Chinatown metro stops)

Sponsor: The Humane Society of the United States

(HSUS)

Contact Andrea Cimino at 301-258-3109,

protect-seals

Web site: www.protectseals.org

 

Boston, Massachusetts

Wednesday, March 15

Time: 12:00 noon-1:00 p.m.

Location: Copley Square at the corner of

Dartmouth and Boylston Streets,

Boston (one block from the Consulate General of

Canada at Three Copley

Place). Copley stop on the MBTA Green Line.

Sponsor: The Humane Society of the United States

(HSUS), World Society for

the Protection of Animals (WSPA), Massachusetts

Society for the Prevention

of Cruelty to Animals (MSPCA), Animal Rescue

League of Boston

Contact Andrea Cimino at 301-258-3109,

protect-seals

 

Detroit, Michigan

Wednesday, March 15

Time: 4:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m.

Location: Downtown Detroit at the entrance to

the Detroit/Windsor Tunnel.

Meet in front of the Mariners' Church.

Contact Darryl at darryl_braun or

313-565-7531.

 

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Wednesday, March 15

Time: 12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m.

Location: 701 Fourth Ave. South, downtown

Minneapolis.

Sponsor: Friends of Animals and Their

Environments (FATE) and the Coalition

for Animal Rights Education (CARE)

For more info, contact: Howard Goldman at

651-690-4997

hgig.goldman

 

New York, New York

Wednesday, March 15

Time: 12:00 noon to 1:30 p.m.

Location: Consulate General of Canada, 1251

Avenue of the Americas (6th

Ave), New York City (Take the B or D subway

lines to the 47-50 Streets

Rockefeller Center stop)

Sponsor: The Humane Society of the United States

(HSUS)

For more info, contact: Julie O'Connor at

201-927-3617,

julieo898

 

Calgary

Wednesday, March 15

Time: 12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m.

Location: Harry Hays Building, 220 4th Avenue

SE, Calgary

Sponsored by the Calgary Animal Rights Coalition

 

Contact Barbara Sicotte at

barbarasicotte

 

South Africa

Wednesday, March 15, 2006

Time: Between 12:00 noon and 2:00 p.m.

Location: The Consulate General of Canada

19th floor, South African Reserve Bank Building

Cape Town, South Africa

60 St. George's Mall

When: Contact: Lejane Hardy 083 6511120

lejane

 

 

Photos: Sea Shepherd Conservation Society

(www.seashepherd.org)