Paul Watson, Dan Haggerty (Grizzly Adams) Plus the Vegan Vixens will be at the Canadian Consulate this Wednesday.

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Canadian Consulate and More Good News for LA, CA

Mon, 13 Mar 2006 20:09:05 -0800

 

Hi Everyone,

 

Please pass this on to your friends, etc., I just

spoke to Dan Haggerty (Grizzly Adams) will be coming

to the consulate and we have another wonderful friend

who is trying to help get the word out more so below

is the revised news release for LA, CA.

 

We are so excited because Dan knows Captain Watson and

I hope we have a huge crowd because of Captain Paul,

Dan, and the beautiful Vegan Vixens.

 

Sue Hirsch

 

 

NEWS RELEASE:

 

 

 

Concerned citizens in Los Angeles and other major

cities (both nationally and internationally) are

reinforcing Sir Paul and Heather McCartney's plea to

demand an end to the Canadian Seal Slaughter

 

 

 

For Immediate Release: March 14, 2006

Event March 15, 2006

 

Time: 12:00 – 4:00 pm

Location: Consulate General of Canada, 550 South Hope

Street, Los Angeles, CA, 90071

 

Contact: Ian Robichaud and Robb Mead, for

Harpseals.org- (310) 392-4742 or Susan Hirsch -- (818)

349-6632 (hm) or (818) 825-0239 (cell) Sea Shepherd

Conservation Society

 

 

 

Los Angeles – Celebrity guests include: Captain Paul

Watson of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society

(co-founder of Greenpeace); Dan Haggerty (Grizzly

Adams); the sexy Vegan Vixens; and more. There will

also be a huge crowd of concerned citizens in Los

Angeles who will all gather outside the Canadian

Consulate, 550 South Hope Street, Los Angeles, to

protest Canada's annual Harp seal slaughter and

promote the boycott of Canadian seafood. This year,

the Canadian government is ignoring its own mandate to

apply the Precautionary Approach to ecological

management as it stubbornly refuses to cancel the seal

" hunt " despite ice conditions worse than ever before

recorded. This situation poses a dire threat to the

seal pups since they require thick, sturdy ice to hold

them for weeks until they learn to swim.

 

 

 

The purpose of this gathering at the consulate is to

demand the cancellation of this year's massacre and to

request a permanent ban on the industrial slaughter of

harp seals. 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 the largest

slaughter of marine mammals in the world.

 

 

 

Each spring in Atlantic Canada, over 300,000

defenseless baby harp seals are massacred on the ice

floes. In a matter of weeks, a pristine white nursery

turns crimson, with hundreds of thousands of lifeless,

skinless bodies strewn all over the ice. This

industrial slaughter nets these off-season fishermen

only about $40 a pelt.

 

 

 

The massacre is perpetrated by a few thousand

Canadians who beat and shoot these seals and skin many

of them alive. The money these sealers receive for

this is only about 5% of their yearly income from

fishing. If these fishermen only stayed home for an

extra two weeks, they would continue to earn the

Employment Insurance benefits that they earn every

year during the off-season.

 

 

 

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 and thus result in

legislation in Canada to ban the slaughter of seals.

Since the U.S. is the largest consumer of Canadian

seafood, importing about 70% of Canada's seafood

exports, American consumers alone can put enough

pressure on Canada's seafood industry to end the

massacres once and for all.

 

 

 

For more information, visit www.harpseals.org

 

Additional resources:

 

www.seashepherd.org; www.boycottcanadianseafood.org;

www.protectseals.org

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