Dear Joseph,
In 2016, more than 66,000 sensitive, social seals were bludgeoned or shot during the commercial seal massacre off the eastern coast of Canada—and in a matter of days, the violent slaughter of thousands of young seals will begin again.
Sealers have already started killing some adult seals, and very soon, they will begin to kill many
thousands of seal pups—most just weeks old—and strip them of their skin, often while other seals watch in terror.
Will you help us protect seals and other vulnerable animals who are slated to be slaughtered for their skin by giving $5 or more today?
Despite growing opposition around the world, the large-scale commercial slaughter of seals is about to begin yet again. Many young seals will not have even eaten their first solid meal or learned how to swim before they are cruelly slaughtered.
Some will be shot to death, while others' soft skulls will be crushed with hakapiks—hooked clubs with piercing metal tips. After the seal pups are beaten to death, their killers will drag their bodies across the ice and tear the skin off them. To avoid damaging the fur as they drag them, the killers will jab the clubs' tips into the animals' eyes, cheeks, or mouths.
Please donate $5 or more today and help PETA protect the thousands of young seals and other animals who are at risk right now.
Because of PETA members and other kind people all over the world—as well as seal-product bans in the U.S., the EU, Russia, and most recently Switzerland—there are few countries left that are willing to buy the bloody goods that come of this carnage. Even the Canadian government's own attempts to push seal products into the Chinese market have fallen flat, and its recent legal challenges to the EU's ban have failed just as spectacularly. Were it not for the millions of dollars in subsidies paid by Canadian taxpayers, Canada's horrific commercial seal-slaughter industry would likely have collapsed by now.
There is hope that Justin Trudeau, Canada's forward-thinking prime minister, may signal a turning point in this campaign. PETA has contacted him to urge him to end his country's federal subsidies of the commercial seal slaughter, and our "seal" activists—including our giant costumed seal—are reminding all Canadians that another violent slaughter of thousands of young animals is no way to commemorate the country's 150th birthday.
We're as close as ever to seeing the end of this massacre, and we must press forward now. Thank you for all that you are doing to help prevent the cruel and violent deaths of baby seals and other animals who are in harm's way.
Kind regards,
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Danielle Katz
Associate Director of Campaigns
P.S. While the Canadian commercial sealing industry may be a shadow of what it once was, that shadow still has the capacity to kill thousands of animals this year.
Your $5 gift today will immediately support our vital work to stop the slaughter and save more living beings from cruelty and abuse.
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