McCartney offers a win win sollution to stop the Canadian seal slaughter, 3-25-06 Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 12:17:54 -0800
CHARLOTTETOWN -- Rock icon Paul McCartney and his wife, Heather Mills, have issued another appeal for Canada to end the East Coat seal hunt. The plea came as hunters and protesters prepare to head out onto the ice for the start of the annual hunt today. McCartney said yesterday in a video message from London that it's time for the Canadian government to consider a licence buy-back program to compensate sealers while ending a hunt that is facing mounting international condemnation. "This is a win-win solution," McCartney said in a message shown to reporters in Charlottetown by the Humane Society of the United States. "Fishermen would be compensated for any lost revenue when the hunt is closed and Canada would have a graceful way to put an end to a cruel and needless practice." The couple visited a seal nursery in the Gulf of St. Lawrence earlier this month. They said they had to come before the hunt began because it would have broken their hearts to see such beautiful animals killed. At least 325,000 seals, most of them between 2 weeks and 3 months old, will be harvested in this year's hunt. The Humane Society of the United States is one of several groups protesting this year's hunt. The society is behind a global boycott of Canadian seafood, which is attempting to pressure Ottawa into ending the hunt by cutting off markets. Anti-hunt forces are also pushing for more bans on seal products. The United States is one of several countries that has banned the importation of marine mammal products. Canadian officials defend the hunt as an economic benefit. They also say it controls the size of seal herds, which helps depleted fish stocks recover. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com contact owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mail list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] no flaming arguing or denigration of others allowed contact owner with complaints regarding posting/list or anything else. Thank you. please share/comment/inform and mostly enjoy this list Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/quick_vegetarian/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
