BREAKING: Seal pup slaughter begins
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Apr 11 (1 day ago)
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BREAKING: Canada's commercial seal slaughter begins TODAY.
Make your urgent gift RIGHT NOW and help us protect baby seals and other animals killed for their skins. | |||
We have made huge strides, but beginning today, thousands of seals—most between the ages of 3 weeks and 3 months—will be barbarically killed and may even be skinned alive, each one a victim of Canada's East Coast commercial seal slaughter. We need your help to put an end to it—before even more baby seals die. Around the world, PETA and our affiliates have been a driving force behind the outrage against the massacre, and Switzerland has become the latest nation to ban the importation of seal products. Attempts to create a market in China—where PETA Asia works hard to promote compassion for animals—have failed, and because of bans on seal-fur products by the U.S., the European Union, and Russia, the bloody seal slaughter is only kept alive by Canadian tax dollars. Now we must work to end the subsidies! Your gift right now will help us save countless young seals and other animals from a terrifying, painful death for their skins.Make your donation of just $5 or more to PETA today! Sealers have already spent the last few weeks slaughtering adult male seals—which may also cause mother seals to be killed. But today, they are officially allowed to start killing seals too young even to eat solid food. Even after young harp seals lose their white baby fur at just a few weeks of age, they're still babies. Left to thrive in the wild, they can live for more than 30 years as part of a large, social colony. But that idyllic life has been replaced with a nightmare as sealers head out on the ice with guns and crude clubs called "hakapiks"—thick wooden bats with a sharp metal hook on one end. Many seals won't die after the first blow, and they'll thrash around and scream in pain in front of other terrified seals who will soon meet the same violent end. Your support today will immediately power our vital work to bring this and other nightmares for animals to an end. Even $5 will help! The slaughter beginning today is an ugly stain on Canada's global reputation—particularly as the country celebrates its 150th anniversary—and PETA is making sure that this blot is seen worldwide via our campaign actions. With your help today, we'll continue to work hard to protect seals from the skins trade. Thank you so much for your support. Kind regards, Ingrid E. Newkirk President | |||
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