Go after the Amish Puppie Mills!!!

Posted by: Telina | April 1, 2009 03:01 PM

Canada - what an uncivilized government! STOP THIS CRIMINAL SEAL SLAUGHTER AT ONCE! SHAME ON THE HEAD OF THESE BASTARDS!

Posted by: Rainbow Warrior | April 1, 2009 04:03 PM

Great photos!

Posted by: Aneliese | April 1, 2009 05:37 PM

So sad...
Many of them after having been hit escape only to die in the ocean in agony.

Barbaric...I'm not for this hunt (or any other)...but if they keep doing this...could they at least use bullets...quicker,less suffering.

I guess it costs much lesser to use the same fu****g stick over and over.

These violent bastards do the job quickly because they are paid by the piece,meaning that the more seals you kill the more money you make...so they do it quick and many seals get their skin taken of their back still conscious.

We must stop this Canadian carnage.

Posted by: SLC | April 1, 2009 05:40 PM

actually these pictures are no way near the actual footage of the clubbing. I see have nightmares. i seen one baby seal cub with a partial head bashed and blood spewing crawling away from the Slaughterer. It broke my heart. What kind of people do this thing? shame on Canada, shame on USA for not boycotting Canadian products.

Posted by: roxanne | April 1, 2009 05:40 PM

OMG!!!!!!!!!!! I am crying my eyes out right now!!! Why can't they just stop???

Posted by: Jannine | April 1, 2009 05:53 PM

It is baffling how something so horrific can still take place in a country that is suppossed to be civilized and developed and all to satisfy the demand for an unnecessary product - fur - and to combat a problem created by people - declining fish numbers caused by human over fishing.
It's another case of an innocent species suffering because of our greed and stupidity.
This needs to stop.

Posted by: AJWx | April 1, 2009 06:36 PM

Seal clubbers just have no life of their own so they take lives.
Of course, they want the cash they receive. They do VERY inhumanely because they want to do it quickly.
Anyway, everyone knows what I would just go on and on about, so forget it.
THANKS A LOT PETA! I'm thinking about going VEG : )

Posted by: Ciara | April 1, 2009 06:47 PM

i have given a letter to my vice principal of my school and i have convinced her to let us talk to the 6th, 7th and 8th graders and ask them to donate money to give. i am like you all are i love animals so much and the article you sent me broke my heart and i had to take action. you should recive a check in the mail in about 2 and 1/2 weeks for this cause. i know it will break my heart more but please send my mother more of these articles so i can help more animals. thanks you 13 year old, Brooke p.s. please visit the website i made-www.animalsrock96.webs.com thanks so much for helping this animal cruelty stop.

Posted by: Brooke | April 1, 2009 07:36 PM

You can watch a trailer on the upcoming ARME documentary "Skin Trade" that shows Paul Watson and Martin Sheen trying to get a straight answer on the seal hunt out of a Canadian politician (I've got more chance of winning So You Think You Can Dance):

http://www.skintradethemovie.com/skin_trade.html

Posted by: Mike Quinoa | April 1, 2009 07:53 PM

I am all the way in Australia-this is has been going on for decades and the Canadians moral compass is still not working! I wake up in the morning and think that it will be night in Canada and the killing will stop for a few hours. But then I go to bed at night with these terrible images in my head thinking it will be daylight now and these heartless people will be going out on their boats to do more killing. It is nothing short of an "Auschwitz on Ice." I want to physically get out there.......... I just cannot think of words to describe how I feel. It just doesn't seem like anything that us decent people do seems to make any difference to them, they just thumb their noses at the rest of the world and do what they like. PETA, Humane Society and Sea Shepherd need to get their heads together, band as one HUGE force against this.

Posted by: Jennifer | April 1, 2009 09:31 PM

I AM ONLY JUST 1 PERSON, BUT I BEG YOU ALL IN THE NAME OF GOD TO STOP AND BAN THIS SEAL SLAUGHTER NOW. IT IS WRONG IN THE EYES OF THE ALMIGHTY GOD. PLEASE JUST STOP THIS NOW.

Posted by: Mrs Rebecca Thompson | April 2, 2009 06:15 AM

these sager smoking apes are torturing the baby seals in their nursery the Canadian government knows this and is determent to try to sustain this barbaric cruelly with Canadian tax payer money for something that has no place in a civilized society.

Posted by: oceanworior | April 2, 2009 07:31 AM

Clubbing seals especially baby ones is really wrong. But for fashion it's ok? clubbing anything to death is so not right on so many levels. if u have to kill u kill to survive not cause it's for a fashionable coat. Ohhhh Canada.

Posted by: Kudohu | April 2, 2009 08:32 AM

The sealers are definitely strange men, it seems they hae become immune to the terrible suffering of seal pups, this makes them really scary people!

Posted by: Maureen | April 2, 2009 11:35 AM

I am Canadian and I do NOT condone this, and yes, I too thought we Canadians were "nice" but I guess not. The government doesn't seem to care. I'm angry, horrified and frustrated that my influence seems so miniscule.

To hell with Steven Harper.

:(

Posted by: Alex | April 2, 2009 01:11 PM

It's really a shame that a "civilized" country government can tolerate this; poor babies... But on the other hand, it is great to see so many people are conscious and say (and do) sth against this cruelty. The voice of the whole world must be heard, we dont want this anymore in our world, not any species being killed. Even to survive, humans kill animals in such a cruel way, that it is imperative we become vegetarians. Thanks Peta and all people who are against this horror.

Posted by: Angie | April 2, 2009 01:33 PM

The Canadian politicians are so out of their minds it's almost comical....but I know this is no laughing matter.

Everyone should read "words of a Canadian". Captain Paul Watson is an amazing person and what an amazing story of how he became a guardian for whales.

Ingrid Newkirk and Paul Watson are both true heros in this world and they deserve some notable awards or recognition.

Posted by: mlo | April 2, 2009 03:03 PM

compassion is no longer alive in society!!!! this is inhumane and evil!!! i dont understand why animals always have to suffer!!!!

Posted by: suzie | April 3, 2009 12:53 AM

I really have no desire to visit a place that does this. People should boycott Canadian products and not travel to Canada.

Posted by: Elizabeth Emmons | April 3, 2009 01:02 AM

I am Canadian, and I am very much against the Seal Hunt. The majority of Canadians are against the hunt, though we need many more to speak out & protest !!!

Posted by: Mandy | April 3, 2009 01:37 AM

All of you who participate in this cruelty should be ashamed
and have your names posted
publicly.

Posted by: Evelyn | April 3, 2009 11:03 AM

People need to stop buying/Wearing FUR and other animal products of anykind. I remember watching a video about the seals being killed when I was 17 years old (I am now 51!) I can't believe this is still allowed anywhere in the world. We seam to be out to distroy everything on our planet that makes it beautiful.

Posted by: Holly | April 3, 2009 11:59 AM

All animal lovers/protectors should ban together and boycott Canadian seafood products. Red Lobster primarily uses Canadian Seafood. Any and all efforts of a concentrated boycott will certainly hit these cold blooded killers in their pocket books. This is an organized mass murder of innocent, helpless baby seals. What a bunch of blood thirsty cowards!

Posted by: elizabeth biscuso | April 3, 2009 03:11 PM

I am a Canadian and I am ASHAMED of my country for not only allowing this disgusting animal blood fest, but subsidizing it at taxpayers expense! These people are barbaric and actually enjoy the killing spree. I have read witnesses describe them singing "Jingle Bell Rock" jovially while they bash the heads of these innocent seals. While on-camera, they check the seal to ensure it's dead before skinning, but off-camera, a whole other nightmare takes place.
And anyone who claims this is some kind of economic need - nope. These "people" only make on average $1200 for their killings.

Posted by: Kristin | April 3, 2009 05:20 PM

I too am Canadian, in fact I was born and raised in the Maritimes where the hunt takes place, although most of it is in Newfoundland and Labrador, which seems to be another country to me.
I am AGAINST the seal hunt, and many other Canadians are as well. We are not all barbaric and uncivilized, so please don't judge us all the same.
I believe to have an intelligent opinion, and one that will resonate with others on the topic, is to be fully educated on the topic, and research the economy, politics, and history of the hunt. It's not black and white. This is why the issue is so polarizing.
It's a disgusting practice, but the people who support it often get very violent and in your face if you are against it. It seems the opinions and "rights" of a few sealers are more important than the widespread moral outrage at the suffering of so many.

Posted by: JJ | April 4, 2009 12:44 AM

Canadians are barbarians,they smile while kill the baby seal! Also sing while are killing...Jesus,what kind of people are they,are you sure they are humans? I´ll never travel to a country like that,I´ll never buy something made in Canada,as we say here in Brazil,"Everything we do here,we pay here"

Posted by: Maria Cristina Fonseca | April 4, 2009 01:04 AM

I applaud the courage and humility of the Canadians who have posted here. I live in the U.S. and love my country, but I don't agree with much of what goes on here. I feel so sad that the Canadian government still sanctions this barbarity. I have always thought that I might like to move to British Columbia someday for a while (I love to ski), but cannot even consider it until this barbarity is stopped. I will also do all I can to get everyone I know and everyone they know, etc., etc. to boycott the Canadian Olympics. I think that any human who can brutally slaughter the innocent baby seals cannot be anything but a sociopath. How can you go out and club baby seals to death (or not quite to death) and then skin them, sometimes while they are still alive, and then go home and be a loving, sensitive husband and father. It's just not possible.

Posted by: Eden | April 4, 2009 05:21 PM

I DO NOT understand why someone would want to do that. i don't understand how someone could stomach doing that its plain disgusting!!! I cry at the thought of the pain they go through and how scared they must be in those last moments and it makes me sick.

Posted by: alexandra | April 4, 2009 05:34 PM

Okay,
Stop hating on Canada.

Canada is not one collective thing, we are people, and not all of us support the seal hunt.

It makes me sick when people write comments like "those sick candian bastard" or shit like that.

Do not generalize.

I AM CANADIAN
AND I LOVE MY COUNTRY
BUT I DO NOT SUPPORT THE CANADIAN SEAL HUNT.

Posted by: Kiwie | April 4, 2009 08:57 PM

One is also disheartened (me) at the comments he reads on such websites as CBC and even CTV where the majority of commenters on both comment pages, actually stick up for the "hunt" trotting out the usual crap about how it's "regulated and humane" (not) it's "economically important" (not a chance in hell of that) and even daring to suggest, that it's more humane to club seal pups to death than to "let them overpuopulate and starve, and of course what goes on in an abbatoir is much worse than the regulated and humane seal hunt, it's "their way of life" (slavery was a way of life once) and I am starting to wonder if most Canadians hate the slaughter after all,
I am hoping it's the ignorant minority posting their garbage.

Posted by: Neil Warne | April 4, 2009 11:58 PM

There must be primitive people in the Canadian government with very little intelligence with regard to the rights of any living creautres to be humanely treated.
i wonder if they would appreciate somebody clubbing, their baby at birth and attaching it to the collar of their jacket!!!

Posted by: Athena Gerber | April 5, 2009 05:13 AM

Hi
I am a Canadian and I am sick of this slaughter of innocent seal pups. I received a letter from the government stating that this was a good portion of their income plus it is tradition. The problem is that most of the money is in the government's pocket. If they couldn't profit from it they would not allow it. They don't care about the maritimers only money. This is not the old days where this tradition truely helped them. With the way the world is sometimes we need to let go of our traditions. I find that slaugher seal pups isn't a tradition. The government should be helping them find new ways for income.

Posted by: Rose | April 8, 2009 02:41 PM

I live in the U.S. where sooo many people are unaware of the seal hunt. If you're interested in staying updated please join my Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2259724474

I say we all go to Canada and rally. ONE HUUUUGE RALLY! I'll sleep right outside of Harper's bedroom window if I have to! SOMETHING needs to be done NOW!

Posted by: amy | April 26, 2009 08:27 PM

I just cannot believe my eyes! Innocent playful baby seals have been forced to give up their lives cruelly by stupid selfish companies who employ the cruellest people to end the innocent lives of harmless and defenceless baby seals. So many lives cut sort just for money and profits! God! What is wrong with the people of this planet??

Posted by: Dahli Dawler | September 7, 2009 02:03 AM