Seal Hunting

In 2003 alone, 350000 seals where killed in this brutal way. It happened every year by late March. Canada`s sea hunt is the cruelest annual activity and the largest slaughter of marine mammals that happened in this whole wide world. The Canadian seal killers armed with clubs and rifles will go again to the nursery floes of the harp and hood seal. Its only take 3 years for them to kill MILLION of seals…
One method of killing seals is with the hakapik, a heavy wooden club with a hammer head and metal hook on the end.

Because of its efficiency, the animal can be killed quickly without damage to its pelt. The hammer head is used to crush the skull, while the hook is used to move the carcass. Using those weapons, they beat to death the baby hooded and harp seals in front their mothers, who often die trying to save their pups. Male adults often are left to bleed to death after have their penises brutally removed to export to countries such as Japan where they are used as aphrodisiacs.



The most shocking evidence comes from 2001, when an international team of Veterinarians who witnessed the hunt, perfomed post-mortem examinations among some carcasses chosen randomly and proved that a 42% of those seals where skinned alive !!! Seal skins have been used by aboriginal people for millenia to make waterproof jackets and boots, and seal fur to make fur coats. Some high-end fashion designers, such as Donatella Versace and Gucci have begun to use seal pelts.
This is the largest mammal killing in the world and there is no excuse for such a massacre or for the torture of these beautiful living beings. It only gives Canada a bad name as a primitive nation profiting from the fur of baby seals.

Please, stop killing of Canadian wildlife in such horrific way!