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Concerned citizens in Los Angeles and Orange County heed Paul
and Heather McCartney's plea to pressure Canada to end the
Canadian Baby Harp Seal Slaughter
There will also be international demonstrations - see link below
for locations: www.harpseals.org/helpstop/dayofaction2007.html
Event Date: March 15, 2007
Time: 11:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Location: 550 South Hope Street (corner of W. 6th and S. Hope)
Contact: Robb Mead - Harpseals.org - (949) 230-0430 -
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Los Angeles - Concerned citizens in Los Angeles and Orange
County will gather outside the Canadian Consulate, 550 South
Hope Street, 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.
For more information, visit www.harpseals.org
Additional resources:
www.seashepherd.org
www.protectseals.org
www.boycottcanadianseafood.org
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