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Take Action for Seals -- Attend LA Protest Thurs. 3/15
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TAKE ACTION!
Attend the protest to stand up for the harp seals!
Date
Thursday, March 15, 2007
Time
11:30 am - 2:30 pm
Location
550 South Hope Street
(Corner of W. 6th and S. Hope)
Los Angeles, 90071
Contact
Robb Mead
(949) 230-0430
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Dear Rick,
Concerned citizens of Los Angeles and Orange County will gather outside the
Canadian
Consulate on Thursday, March 15th, to protest Canada's annual harp seal
slaughter
and promote the boycott of Canadian seafood. Over 30 other protests will take
place
in cities all around the world. This year, the Canadian government is ignoring
its
own mandate to apply the Precautionary Approach to ecological management as it
stubbornly
refuses to cancel the seal "hunt" despite poor ice conditions that could cause
pups
to drown in large numbers. Seal pups require thick, sturdy ice to hold them for
weeks
until they learn to swim.
Canada's mismanagement of the oceans has so far led to the collapse of the cod
fishery,
the destruction of 95% of the population of a half dozen deep-water fish off the
Newfoundland coast, including the Greenland halibut, and the imperilment of the
snow
crab population. The Canadian government's next victim will be the harp seal,
unless
activists around the world succeed in pressuring the government to ban the seal
"hunt."
Citizens will gather at the Canadian Consulate to demand the cancellation of
this
year's industrial-scale slaughter of seal pups and to demand a permanent ban on
the
industrial slaughter of harp seals. Citizens will also educate passersby about
the
Canadian seafood boycott. This boycott is designed to put direct economic
pressure
on the Canadian fishing industry, the industry behind the largest slaughter of
marine
mammals in the world.
Each spring in Atlantic Canada, over 300,000 defenseless baby harp seals
(approximately
3 weeks to 3 months old pups) are massacred on the ice floes. In a matter of
weeks,
a pristine white nursery turns crimson, with hundreds of thousands of lifeless,
skinless
bodies strewn all over the ice. This industrial slaughter nets these off-season
fishermen
only about $40 a pelt.
The massacre is perpetrated by a few thousand Canadians who beat and shoot these
seals and skin many of them alive. The money these sealers receive for this is
only
about 5% of their yearly income from fishing. If these fishermen only stayed
home
for an extra two weeks, they would continue to earn the Employment Insurance
benefits
that they earn every year during the off-season.
Since it is the support of the Canadian seafood industry that perpetuates the
slaughter,
the Canadian seafood boycott can pressure this industry to take a stand against
this
annual massacre and thus result in legislation in Canada to ban the slaughter of
seals. Since the U.S. is the largest consumer of Canadian seafood, importing
about
70% of Canada's seafood exports (equating to approximately CAN$3 billion
dollars),
American consumers alone can put enough pressure on Canada's seafood industry to
end the massacres once and for all.
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