Canada & The Seal Hunt

https://www.thedodo.com/canada-seal-hunt-2333758471.html

Canada's annual seal hunt began early this year thanks to lobbying groups hoping to slaughter adults this year for meat and oil. Typically, younger seals are slaughtered for their fur during the hunt. Every year, approximately 60, 000 seals are slaughtered by Canadian fisherman hoping to cash in on a failing industry.

European countries are only getting stricter with their animal rights and 35 countries have already banned the import / sale of seal products. The market for these products are dwindling and that's why these groups claim to want to hunt adults this year so as to make money in other ways.

With the industry slowly caving in, the question here is why are our tax dollars funding this ridiculously unnecessary annual event? Why, as a Vegetarian and firm supporter of animal rights are my hard earned tax dollars funding something I find to be absolutely repulsive. It sickens me to think that anything of mine contributes to this horrific slaughter of innocent babies. 

These babies are not "humanely" slaughtered as the government would have us believe. First of all, there's absolutely nothing humane about slaughtering something that does not want to die. Secondly, attacking the heads of the animals with ice picks and dragging them across the ice hardly reads as humane to me.

The hunt is just another example of how detached from reality our government is when considering animal rights. They refuse to acknowledge that society frowns on these sorts of activities now. They refuse to acknowledge that vegan and vegetarian lifestyles are becoming more abundant and with that, the rise of concern over our poor animal rights laws. Canada's animal rights laws are about as sad as can be. Convictions carry laughable punishments and do nothing to deter future animal cruelty.

Canada, wake the f!@k up! We project an image of peace, compassion, and empathy, yet we participate in morally questionable activities involving animals and have absolutely no regard for their rights or worth. Our laws allow molestation of animals, our laws allow repeat offenders to receive nothing short of a slap on the wrist. The fact is, our tax dollars are contributing to the slaughter of innocent babies in the name of profit. Canada is not as empathetic and peaceful as we've been lead to believe now is it?


Bothered and want to help? Visit the Humane Society International's website to find out how!
http://www.hsi.org/world/canada/news/releases/2017/03/seal-hunt-opens-early-032717.html?referrer=http://www.hsi.org/world/canada/?referrer=https://www.google.com/  
​Also, take the time to use your voice! Send your complaints into the Prime Minister's inbox(https://pm.gc.ca/eng/connect) or contact your local MP and find out what you can do to help. At this very moment, babies are being killed. We can't allow the government to think we stand for this barbaric earning of money in the name of blood.

HAPPY VEG