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Sea Shepherd Asks Supporters to Spare a Moment to Take Action for the Seals

If ever there was a time to send a message that could really make a difference for the seals, that time is now.

The cruel mass slaughter of hundreds of thousands of harp seal pups can be ended if the European Parliament passes a pending bill banning all seal products into Europe.

This bill will also help end the slaughter of South African fur seals in Namibia and will put an end to the years off effort by seal defenders to end the obscenity of sealing.

Sealing has no place in the 21st century.

Please send a message to the Honourable Stavros Dimas, the Commissioner for Employment and Social Affairs asking him to convey your concerns to the European Parliament with a request that the members vote to protect the seal by banning all seal products into European markets.

The Canadian government is spending millions of dollars sending delegations to Europe to lobby against the ban. The seals need people to let the Parliament know that the majority of people worldwide want the largest mass slaughter of a marine mammal species in the world to be ended.

In writing be aware of the following fact:

1. The Canadian government is trying to convince the Parliament that the seals being killed are all adults. This is because the government of Canada defines an “adult” seal as any seal over three weeks of age.
2. If the hunt is “humane” as the Canadian government insists it is then why is it illegal to observe the killing of a seal.
3. The harps seals are also being threatened by global warming which is causing loss of ice habitat and this is not factored into the quota decisions of the government.
4. This is the largest slaughter of a marine mammal species in the world.
5. The Canadian government has rejected offers to create alternative employment or to have people pay the sealers to not kill seals.
6. Seal pups have been filmed suffering in agony on the ice after being clubbed, stabbed, shot or kicked by sealers.
7. The government of Canada tries to link the seal hunt with aboriginal communities despite the fact that the commercial hunt is not an aboriginal hunt. No one is opposing Inuit sealing in the far north. The opposition is to the mass slaughter in Eastern Canada especially Newfoundland where the aboriginal peoples were exterminated a century ago. There are no native communities in Newfoundland.
8. The Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans has a record of incompetence with regard to management of the fisheries. Every single commercial fishery in Canada is in trouble because of DFO mismanagement.

Please send a message to:

Honourable Stavros Dimas
Commissioner for Employment and Social Affairs
B-1049 Brussels
Belgium
FAX:  32 2 2982 099

E-Mail: stavros.dimas@ec.europa.eu