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PETA To Target Vancouver Olympics to end seal slaughter

by Amy Judd | February 18, 2009 at 10:41 am

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PETA plans to launch a year long relentless campaign leading up to the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver to help bring the world attention back to the annual seal slaughter that takes place in Canada every year.

The campaign was announced today on the steps of Canada House in Trafalgar Square in London.

PETA affiliates will use the campaign's logo - a parody of the Olympic logo showing a hunter as he clubs a baby seal next to a blood-dripping rendition of the five interlocking Olympic rings - on badges and billboards and at pre-Olympic events around the world.

The group plans to send letters to the Vancouver Olympic Organizing Committee to ask for help in ending the hunt. Last year the government permitted the slaughter of 205,000 baby harp seals, many of which are clubbed to death or shot.
PETA is calling it 'Canada's Shame'.

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eastvanray

at 14:53 on February 18th, 2009

Why is it that depending on how cute an animal is that killing it demands a separate word? Seals are cute so they are "slaughtered"; Deer are kinda cute so they are "hunted"; fish are ugly so we "fish" them. Wouldn't it be funny, just for a day if we reversed the terms? A proud father could take his young son out for his first weekend of "sealing" while PETA would be protesting the crab slaughter and the inhumane cod hunt! PETA. Love them or hate them they sure are a funny bunch!

Amanda Daniell (not verified)

at 18:53 on February 18th, 2009

Dear EastVanRay;

Everybody who opposes those who oppose the insane and barbaric seal hunt begin with exactly your first comment and mythical idea:

Seals are cute, therefore everybody wants to save them.

Look at Peta's website and any other activist website, you will notice we fight for mice, cows, pigs, crows, horses, snakes, insects, owls, whales, dolphins, salmon, elephants, dogs, cats, rabbits, fox's, wolves, sheep, porcupines, weasels, mink, chinchillas and any other type of creature who is being extermined by man for various reasons.

The killing of seals is THE LARGEST MARINE SLAUGHTER in the world ( I put that in bold, as I did not want you to miss it.)

Your first point is completely inaccurate.

Next?

Amy Judd

at 08:54 on February 19th, 2009

It's true that PETA fights on behalf of so many different animals; it's just that some get a lot more attention than others - and I think it's more about the way the seals are killed than about how cute they are. I admire PETA for what they do every day.

wadge mimi (not verified)

at 07:39 on February 19th, 2009

I totally oppose this barbaric seal hunt - I have such a hard time grasping the thought that people go out there and kill these beautiful helpless little creatures and then be able to look at themselves in the mirror and like what they see. They repulse me! This cruelty needs to stop and needs to stop now. It's very sad that the Govenment doesn't take a stand to stop the seal hunt and it's very sad that we vote this Government in - sad, sad, sad.

Thank you PETA

eastvanray

at 10:16 on February 19th, 2009

Thanks you for making my pooint, wedge. "beautiful helpless little creatures". If they were ugly, dangerous preditors you would not be so concerned about people hunting them.

Adam Morris (not verified)

at 10:51 on February 25th, 2009

Read beyond the PETA propaganda you ignorant people. PETA is a self serving organization.. just as they all are. Ignorance breeds ignorance, and apparently the blind lead the blind.

Do your own research and don't jump on the bandwagon.

Fred Miller

at 18:53 on March 23rd, 2009

Mail excerpt I got today from PETA

'With your support, the slaughter of seals need not go on forever. The U.S. outlawed the sale of seal fur more than 25 years ago, and the European Union is actively considering a ban on all seal products as I write.

PETA's vigorous anti-fur campaign is persuading compassionate consumers, designers, and retailers to turn away from fur. We have convinced leading designers and retailers, including Donna Karan, Polo Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger, Liz Claiborne, J.Crew, and many others, to stop selling all fur.'

Yes, they want me to donate and I wish I could afford it, because they have won over all those designer folks by sheer perseverance and audacity, not by violent means.

eastvanray

at 22:30 on March 23rd, 2009

They are just seals. Why do you treat them differently than any other animal that we kill for our food/economic needs?

Lindsay Johnson (not verified)

at 15:07 on March 25th, 2009

SO TRUE..

Lindsay Johnson (not verified)

at 15:06 on March 25th, 2009

Killing baby harp seals are one of the most saddest things.

eastvanray

at 10:03 on March 26th, 2009

Why is it any sadder than killing any other young animal? Killing is killing. Seals are no more special than any other mamal. Or is it only bad to kill cute animals?