W: [harpsealcampaign] Heather and Paul McCartney Visit
Seal Nursery Just Days Before Brutal Slaughter Begins
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 16:46:58 -0800
Sent: 2/27/2006 4:13:58 PM
Subject: [harpsealcampaign] Heather and Paul
McCartney Visit Seal Nursery Just Days Before Brutal
Slaughter Begins
Heather and Paul McCartney Visit Seal Nursery Just
Days Before Brutal Slaughter Begins
February 26, 2006
WASHINGTON-Later this week, Heather and Paul
McCartney will join The Humane Society of the United
States on the ice floes off the East Coast of Canada
to observe newborn harp seal pups just weeks before
they will be clubbed and shot to death for their fur.
The McCartney's trip March 2 and 3 will highlight
the work of two animal protection groups to stop the
Canadian seal hunt, during which hundreds of thousands
of seal pups are killed each year: The HSUS and its
international arm, Humane Society International, and
the UK campaign group Respect for Animals. Both
organizations are working to close global markets for
seal products and to pressure the Canadian government
to end the seal hunt for good.
During the last three years alone, the Canadian
government has allowed nearly 1 million seals to be
slaughtered. Fully 97 percent of them were less than 3
months of age, and the majority was less than 1 month
old. A 2001 independent veterinarian report concluded
that close to half of the seals examined were likely
still conscious when skinned, causing "considerable
and unacceptable suffering."
"Heather and Paul's visit to the seal pups will
shine a global media spotlight on this cruel and
needless slaughter," said Rebecca Aldworth, director
of Canadian wildlife issues for The HSUS. "The
Canadian government must act now to save Canada's
international reputation and put a final end to the
commercial seal hunt."
Today's kill levels meet and even exceed those of
the 1950s and 1960s, when the harp seal population was
reduced by as much as two-thirds. In the 1980s, an EU
ban on the import of the skins from 'whitecoat'
(newborn) seals dramatically reduced the number of
seals killed in the hunt. But today, sealers kill pups
as soon as they have begun to moultas young as 12
days oldand the skins of these slightly older seals
are legally traded in Europe.
Opinion polls consistently show the overwhelming
majority of Canadians, Americans and Europeans oppose
the commercial seal hunt. Mexico, Italy and Greenland
are just the latest countries to take action to ban
the trade in Canadian seal products.
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The Humane Society of the United States is the
nation's largest animal protection organization
representing more than 9.5 million members and
constituents. The non-profit organization is a
mainstream voice for animals, with active programs in
companion animals and equine protection, disaster
preparedness and response, wildlife and habitat
protection, animals in research and farm animal
welfare. The HSUS protects all animals through
education, investigation, litigation, legislation,
advocacy, and field work. The group is based in
Washington and has numerous field representatives
across the country. On the web at www.hsus.org.
Marie E. Schwartz, CMA
402-216-7109/cell
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"If most of us rounded a corner on a highway and
saw a slaughter like this, we would call the police,
we would scream until our throats gave out, we would
probably charge the men with clubs. We wouldnt say,
Id do something, but there are so many other
problems in the world
Patti Davis, Newsweek, 4/6/05
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