PETA Launches their Save the Seals Celebrity Campaign: Photos

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...

PETA launches 'Olympic Shame 2010' website to stop seal slaughter

Animal organization PETA has launched their 'Olympic Shame 2010' website to help bring awareness to and an end to the Canadian seal slaughter that takes place every year. "All eyes are on Canada as it prepares to host the 2010 Winter Olympics. This extra attention will bring...

Canadian Sealers in Newfoundland Ice Floes -Trapped

Few environmental organizations are going to the ice to protest this year. Environment News ServiceAccording to a Newfoundland-Labrador radio news report"Some 20 crew members have been taken off four vessels...

One more year of Pixaxes to the head

The Canadian government drives me crazy.  While Canada is hailed as a progressive nation, they are way below par when it comes to animal rights.  It is sickening. They are not even close to the US, not...

Seal Hunt Divorce

" Sir Paul McCartney's wife is divorcing him for cruelty and abuse. Did he beat her with a seal on the iceflows of Newfoundland? Or was it a clever ploy by the Tories aginst seal hunt protests? Homewrecker Hearn takes credit for busting up McCartney marriage"

War on the Ice

"Frustration, hot tempers and arrests mark start of Atlantic seal hunt I dunno know do ya think that a lower than expected kill number might have something to do with it?"

The annual seal hunt officially starts at 6 am on Saturday

It appears there might be a danger of drowning to both the hunters and the seal pups. The ice is much more broken up than previous years.

Did the seal pups drown when the thin ice broke up?

The hunt starts at 6 am on Saturday 25th March. But only if they sit there and wait for the hunters.

Canada’s Seal Hunt - Paying the Price

ProtectSeals has advocated for a boycott of Canadian seafood.

Canada hunters head for seal cull

Earns 16.5 million Canadian dollars in meat and pelt sales. Also earnings from seal penises sold to Asian countries as aphrodisiacs.

End seal massacre, begs Bardot

Brigitte Bardot says seal penises will be sold to Asian countries as aphrodisiacs. When she was younger, she was an aphrodisiac.

No Free Speech Here

"Outside the hotel, a group of high school students from Nunavut, some wearing seal boots, demonstrated. They banged drums and waved placards with the words "seals are part of our economy." They were told they were not allowed in."

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