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Protest Seal Hunt 3-15-05 in SF
Canadian seal hunt is starting soon.
We want to be sure you know about the demonstrations in California to protest the killing of many thousands of baby seals.
Activists are stepping up the pressure against the Canadian government for the escalation of its commercial seal slaughter. Please attend the rally nearest you and contact the Canadian embassy to add your voice to the opposition.
The mass killing of harp seals, which targets weeks-old seal pups, has been reviled worldwide for its brutality. Sealers bludgeon young seals as they lie helpless on ice floes. Observers and scientists have noted that many of the animals are often still alive as they are skinned. Canadian government quotas have set the death toll at nearly a million seals over a three-year period.
Join The HSUS, Greenpeace, and other animal and environmental protection organizations in one of 50 cities around the world to protest Canada's seal slaughter!
SAN FRANCISCO
What: Seal Hunt Protest
When: Tuesday, March 15, 2005
Time: 12 noon
Where: Canadian Consulate Trade Office, 555 Montgomery Street, San Francisco.
Sponsored by: In Defense of Animals. For more info, contact Alicia Moore at
415-388-9641 x228 or alicia [at] idausa.org.
Website: http://www.idausa.org ; http://www.furkills.org
More information
Learn more about the International Day of Action. Find a list of demonstrations in North America.
Learn more about the Canadian Seal Hunt Campaign. If you are not a U.S. citizen, you can look up the Canadian embassy in your country.
Activists are stepping up the pressure against the Canadian government for the escalation of its commercial seal slaughter. Please attend the rally nearest you and contact the Canadian embassy to add your voice to the opposition.
The mass killing of harp seals, which targets weeks-old seal pups, has been reviled worldwide for its brutality. Sealers bludgeon young seals as they lie helpless on ice floes. Observers and scientists have noted that many of the animals are often still alive as they are skinned. Canadian government quotas have set the death toll at nearly a million seals over a three-year period.
Join The HSUS, Greenpeace, and other animal and environmental protection organizations in one of 50 cities around the world to protest Canada's seal slaughter!
SAN FRANCISCO
What: Seal Hunt Protest
When: Tuesday, March 15, 2005
Time: 12 noon
Where: Canadian Consulate Trade Office, 555 Montgomery Street, San Francisco.
Sponsored by: In Defense of Animals. For more info, contact Alicia Moore at
415-388-9641 x228 or alicia [at] idausa.org.
Website: http://www.idausa.org ; http://www.furkills.org
More information
Learn more about the International Day of Action. Find a list of demonstrations in North America.
Learn more about the Canadian Seal Hunt Campaign. If you are not a U.S. citizen, you can look up the Canadian embassy in your country.
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I'm against the seal hunt, but the hypocrisy and imperialistic attitudes of foreigners gets me as well. I remember one placard in Ireland, "club sandwiches, not seals." some animals are more equal than others?
Also, protestors do not tend to differentiate from the aboriginal hunters and the commercial hunters. whitey mcprotester knows what's best for the savages, I guess.
Here's another puzzler: The dickheads in Canada's "Green" Party SUPPORT the seal hunt!
Also, protestors do not tend to differentiate from the aboriginal hunters and the commercial hunters. whitey mcprotester knows what's best for the savages, I guess.
Here's another puzzler: The dickheads in Canada's "Green" Party SUPPORT the seal hunt!
"protestors do not tend to differentiate from the aboriginal hunters and the commercial hunters. whitey mcprotester knows what's best for the savages, I guess."
first, you are the one to speak of "savages". even if you're being facetious, it's still not nice and then to attribute it to others is unfair.
more importantly, I'd ask you to point to an example of "protestors do not tend to differentiate." it's certainly not in this post: "the killing of many thousands of baby seals" (obviously not subsistence here), "escalation of its commercial seal slaughter" (commercial, not subsistence), " The mass killing of harp seals," "set the death toll at nearly a million seals," and so forth
you are right about the hypocrisy in protesting seal hunts and eating ham sandwiches, and to that I would add that no true environmentalist should eat meat. it's like throwing aluminum cans out of the window of your Hummer as you drive one block to your corner store to buy a candybar. you certainly wouldn't call that person an environmentalist, even if they donated to Greenpeace.
if what you say about the Greens up there is true, that is a puzzler. have they made some deal or trade-off? how do they rationalize it?
first, you are the one to speak of "savages". even if you're being facetious, it's still not nice and then to attribute it to others is unfair.
more importantly, I'd ask you to point to an example of "protestors do not tend to differentiate." it's certainly not in this post: "the killing of many thousands of baby seals" (obviously not subsistence here), "escalation of its commercial seal slaughter" (commercial, not subsistence), " The mass killing of harp seals," "set the death toll at nearly a million seals," and so forth
you are right about the hypocrisy in protesting seal hunts and eating ham sandwiches, and to that I would add that no true environmentalist should eat meat. it's like throwing aluminum cans out of the window of your Hummer as you drive one block to your corner store to buy a candybar. you certainly wouldn't call that person an environmentalist, even if they donated to Greenpeace.
if what you say about the Greens up there is true, that is a puzzler. have they made some deal or trade-off? how do they rationalize it?
I would like to point out a couple of errors in your message, you said..."the killing of many thousands of baby seals" (obviously not subsistence here), "escalation of its commercial seal slaughter" (commercial, not subsistence), " The mass killing of harp seals," "set the death toll at nearly a million seals," and so forth "... first of all, the quota for 2005 is set at around 300,000 seals. Not sure how that becomes nearly a million. and secondly, the hunt is commercial by definition in that its done for economic gain, by people who live in coastal communities of Atlantic Canada (most are not first nations), who must take advantage of what ever economic opportunity is available. most are fishermen who 'hunt' seals in the spring, catch lobster in early summer, cod, crab, shrimp, etc, as they come in season...so in one sense it is subsistance. Its not school teachers and electricians doing it for a quick buck on the side.
The harp seal population is in the millions. 300,000 taken will not endanger it.
The harp seal population is in the millions. 300,000 taken will not endanger it.
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