THE VEGETARIAN BLOG

Russia said Wednesday it was banning the hunting of baby harp seals, weeks after Prime Minister Vladimir Putin reportedly called the hunt a “bloody industry”, reports the Associated Press. “The bloody sight of the hunting of seals, the slaughter of these defenseless animals, which you cannot even call a real hunt, is banned in our country, just as well as in most developed countries, and this is a serious step to protect the biodiversity of the Russian Federation,” Minister Yuri Trutnev said in a statement.

This is good news for seals and hopefully Canada and other countries that pursue this disgusting trade will follow suit. If you would like to help to put an end to this horrifying business in Canada, the biggest seal killing country in the world, please visit my previous post for more information.

Every end of winter is the same story. Despite international protest, Canada decides to carry on with its war on baby harp seals and kill hundreds of thousands of innocent lives. The UK Guardian has a video with bird’s eye footage of the massacre, released by the International Fund for Animal Welfare and it contains graphic images of violence. Still, make an effort to watch it. Despite what Canada says, the seal killing business is heavily subsidised by tax payers and the killers would be better off staying at home.

Luckily, the European Union is considering a total ban on baby seal products, which would sound the death knell for this horrible, cruel, industry. And recently, Canadian senator Mac Harb proposed a bill to end the annual slaughter. Please give your support to the bill by signing this petition. We can make this nightmare come to an end.

On Saturday I wrote about grey seals being safe in Canada afters buyers cancelled their orders. However, those blood-thirsty sealers managed to get an order for 200 seals and so that number of animals were murdered for what is most certainly a meagre amount of money. How much is life worth? It’s priceless, but not in the sick minds of these assassins. According to a report in the Chronicle Herald:

Bridget Curran of the Atlantic Canadian Anti-Sealing Coalition said she was upset her group, which monitors the hunt, wasn’t notified that sealers were on the island. It just shows a total lack of transparency on DFO’s part,” she said. “As licensed observers, we have a right to be there to monitor and document the kill.”

It’s disgusting that Canada allows such a thing to happen. In fact, this vile industry has come up with a novel way to defend the slaughter of seals: to protect fish stocks! Now, humans have been overfishing for decades and they want to put the blame for the disappearance of ocean fish population on seals? Puh-lease! I’ve never heard anything as hypocrytical in my whole life.