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PETA Launches their Save the Seals Celebrity Campaign: Photos

by Amy Judd | October 21, 2009 at 11:53 am

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PETA has launched their 'Save the Seals' celebrity campaign with an eye to using celebrities as a focus point to draw attention to the Canadian seal hunt and their desire to stop it.

See some of the celebrity posters that PETA has used.

PETA is using the Vancouver 2010 Olympics as a platform to launch their campaign and to raise awareness around the world, launching an Olympic shame website, and protesting at the Vancouver Olympic clock dressing up like bloody seals.

They want the Canadian government to end the seal hunt and they plan to protest during the 2010 Olympic games to stop what they call a slaughter.

PETA and compassionate people worldwide—including countless Canadian citizens and a long list of celebrities, such as Sarah McLachlan, and professional athletes—are calling for a permanent end to this cruel and needless massacre.

PETA may have the celebrity backing to promote their campaign but they are not the only ones working towards an end to the seal slaughter.

The Humane Society also has a campaign and they have some facts available about the seal hunt.

The seal hunt in Canada is the largest slaughter of marine mammals and over one million seals have been killed so far. The most are younger than three months old. It is not the subsistence seal hunting done by aboriginal people that is the issue however, it is the commercial seal hunt that these organizations want to be stopped.

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eastvanray

at 12:39 on October 21st, 2009

So PETA believes that it is only cruel when white people kill seals? That seems pretty racist to me!

Amy Judd

at 13:34 on October 21st, 2009

No, no, no, you're twisting it.

It is not the subsistence seal hunting done by aboriginal people that is the issue however, it is the commercial seal hunt that these organizations want to be stopped.

Let me break it down for you.

They are saying when the seal hunt is done for subsistence reasons, it's ok, and that is a part of the aboriginal culture in Canada; that's not what the seal protest is about.

This protest is about the commercial seal hunt and those hunters can be white, black, blue or any colour under the sun; it's not about the colour of anyone's skin, it's about the commercial hunt itself.

I know you hate PETA though so I'm not going to get involved any more.

eastvanray

at 19:00 on November 11th, 2009

What I don't like is the fact that the seal population is health and stable WITH the commercial hunt. Why are they trying to take away one of the only sources of income for Canadians in that part of the country? Why not focus their energy and money on animals that are actually endangered? Oh ya, PETA isn't about that. They just want to get press so they can raise more money. The pictures they use are over a decade old. "White Coates" have not been hunted for over 10 years in Canada but PETA insists on using those pictures bacause they ring the cash register.