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Blood on the Ice in Ottawa

Posted at 03:20 PM | Permalink | Comments (21)

With the start of the annual Canadian seal slaughter just a few weeks away, PETA took to the frozen Rideau Canal in Ottawa to help stop the killings. Skaters looked on in wonderment as activists recreated the "crime scene" from an attack on a baby seal. Check out these photos from the demo:

If you haven't witnessed the seal slaughter firsthand, you'll have to trust us that it looks a lot like this bloody mess—but with seal babies' corpses and wailing mothers nearby.

A voice from above says: "Stop the Seal Slaughter!"

Lord knows you don't want this muck on your skates—or on your hands.

Inspired yet? Learn more about our campaign against the Canadian seal slaughter and what you can do about it.

Posted by Lianne Turner

Comments

Disgusting !!!!

Posted by: Jennifer Eady | March 5, 2009 08:50 PM

God is watching. Boycott the Canada Olympics....

Posted by: Bettina Roemmich | March 6, 2009 12:00 AM

Wow!! Blood on the ice is such a good idea! Go PETA!!

Posted by: Sarah | March 6, 2009 11:26 AM

Canada's seal hunt makes it look like a savage, cruel, inhumane and uncivilized country.

Posted by: Brien Comerford | March 6, 2009 11:59 AM

Clubbing a baby Harp Seal is no less gruesome than killing a trout or eating a hamburger at McDonalds (so what if someone else killed the cow ). Killling an animal for mans pleasure or food is still a crime. Eating vegetables is not enough! The huge commercial farms that grow the vegetables do so on land ( habitat ) that was confiscated from the animals. PETA must advocate immediate steps to reduce the world population to somewhere between 30 and 50 million humans.

Posted by: Grey Bear | March 6, 2009 02:53 PM

i love Peta for their great actions - we shall overcome!

Posted by: Bharata | March 6, 2009 04:22 PM

I am from Canada and I do not support the Seal Slaughter. I am also vegan.
Canada isn't the problem. The people who do this are the problem and they are in the minority.
Try not to sterotype a country so rashly. It is very close minded.

Posted by: Kyla Robichaud | March 6, 2009 04:33 PM

Too many Canadians are apathetic and meekly follow their government no matter how vicious, corrupt and criminal those government figures are. The favorite Canadian hobby is to distract attention by pointing fingers at others rather than taking the moral and courageous route and actually clean up their own sordid acts and corrupt government. The same type of mentality existed in Nazi Germany.

Posted by: Mark | March 7, 2009 04:29 AM

A favorite sealer argument is that seals eat fish and must be "culled". Less than 3% of a harp seal's diet consists of commercially fished cod and other food fish. Harp seals consume the significant predators of cod, including skate and squid. Removing harp seals means an increase in cod predators and that means the fish that the East Coast depended on will never recover.

The Canadian government itself clearly states that killing harp seals will not help fish stocks recover, and killing seals will in fact impede the recovery of ground fish stocks.

It was the corrupt Canadian DFO that exterminated the vast stocks of cod, haddock, whiting and plaice and their nurseries by 1992 with their factory trawlers and draggers out of sheer greed, putting a hundred thousand East Coasters out of work.

This is the largest marine mammal hunt in the world with three million seals killed in the past four years, all pups between two weeks and three months of age. The slaughter is to provide luxury fur items for fashion markets in Europe and elsewhere. The Canadian government freely admits it is commercial and has nothing to do even with "culling" or fish stocks. The scale of the Canadian seal massacres are now bigger than any time in the last 50 years and ice loss due to global warming is affecting seal nurseries. At least half the nurseries disappeared last year. Even the DFO admits that, and it does not have a clue how many are left, it admits that there is no way it can get an accurate count, and "estimates" between 4.5 and 5+million. Based on outside surveys, the real count is close to three million and plummeting. Seals have been threatened once before when Canada went on an orgy of greedy killing, and it is happening again. Not to mention the unspeakable acts of cruelty, which were documented and filmed and presented to the European commission. Acts such as skinning alive and the taking of whitecoasts are commonplace. There is no excuse for this global crime. The commercial killing of seals must be stopped by worldwide boycotts and bans. And the Vancouver Olympics must be represented to the world and boycotted as an event soaked in blood from a renegade and barbaric nation.

Posted by: Mark | March 7, 2009 04:34 AM

I am also a Canadian and Vegan and you can bash us all you want , We the people of Canada are guilty, guilty of not speaking up, challenging our officials, voting for the right officials ect.ect.. We let our Government get away with any thing, and do nothing.

Posted by: Susan Manns | March 7, 2009 11:35 PM

Also boycott all Canadian seafood, Protest outside of red Lobster they buy from us. Ask your grocers if they buy Canadian sea food. tell them you won't shop there if they do. Contact our Dept of Tourism. Go ahead and get Canadians pissed off so they will actually do something to stop this massacre and please don't down play it by calling it a hunt

Posted by: Susan Manns | March 7, 2009 11:45 PM

it is so upsetting

Posted by: lucia | March 8, 2009 07:08 AM

any kind of animal abuse is just unspeakable,,,when my mother was alive,,i would call her crying everytime i heard a story,,,and everytime she would say to me"karen,,if people live like there's no God,,,they BETTER be right" so now i have only her voice in my memory everytime i cry,,:(

Posted by: karen | March 8, 2009 11:22 AM

good job on the protest im candien and think the seal hunt is vile but i am sorta upset that i live right by that area and missed this protest

Posted by: pepper | March 8, 2009 12:44 PM

Great Idea! I love PETA! Stop the animal slaughters!!

Posted by: Megan | March 8, 2009 04:25 PM

Stop the egotistical need to buy fur and save a life!!

Posted by: Rick | March 9, 2009 07:50 AM

im from australia and this is horrible to know about and to even think it is happening,.With autralias main focus always on the whaling by japan i just think itt horrid anyone can be so cruel to animals.I am the biggest animal lover and just wish i could stop all the hurt and pain to the animals in the world

Posted by: krystle | March 9, 2009 06:29 PM

Susan Manns, why would you post on here that everyone should boycott canadian sea kitten products(seafood)? Hasn't everybody on this site already done so? Anybody who would eat them cute sea kittens should not be on this site. Long live the sea kitten and seal.

Posted by: Tyler Krueger | March 10, 2009 10:43 AM

Its a shame how you Canadians are savages.
I thought Canadians were civilized people but finally nothing more than some outdoor primitive savages who kills for money!!

I will never go to Canada my entire life!!

Shame on you

Posted by: guido | March 10, 2009 12:01 PM

yet another amazing demonstration of the animal rights activists showing their love for these beautiful craetures!!! i love it!! keep up the awesome work and it will pay off in the end!!

Posted by: kris shulfer | April 4, 2009 12:04 PM

Hi, im a canadian from ottawa ontario. what is going on is horrible! The worst part is that about 50% of us are unaware. Please do not stereotype our population based on the actions of a few people.

Posted by: eric | June 27, 2009 09:03 PM