photo by Broompl (Pete)

It takes a certain kind of person to look an adorable baby seal in its beautiful big eyes, pick up a spiked club, and beat that pup to death. And then do the same thing to thousands of defenseless seals. And how can Canada allow the largest slaughter of marine animals on Earth to take place in their very country? It makes me absolutely sick. And also incredibly sad.

We need to help stop these horrid seal hunts once and for all. The European Union has voted on a proposal to ban its seal product trade “…the Internal Markets and Consumer Protection Committee of the European Parliament voted in favour of a strong prohibition on trade in seal products in the European Union. The IMCO’s Opinion will go forward to plenary weeks from now.”  The U.S. is boycotting Canadian seafood until the commercial seal slaughtering is shut down permanently. And for the first time ever “Canadians have proposed legislation to support and end to the hunt…” Thanks to the bill Senator Mac Harb introduced into the Canadian Senate, the end of commercial seal slaughtering is very likely. It has taken a lot of hard work from a lot of people to make this dream a real possibility. And there’s still a lot of work to be done, but we’re closer now than ever before.

Unfortunately, thousands of seals have been slaughtered in the last few days. The Humane Society along with the ProtectSeals Network have been there to document the horrible slaughter as well as the aftermath. “Just weeks ago we stood on these ice floes with newborn seals. Today, the ice is awash in blood. We could see the blood and carcasses on the floes from hundreds of feet in the air. It is devastating to be here—the sadness is palpable.”

Read more about it here. And help stop the mass genocide of innocent seal pups by going here.