Sea Shepherd Unveils Dead Lobster T-shirt Design

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Sea Shepherd Unveils Dead Lobster T-shirt Design

 

 

Sea Shepherd artist activist Geert Jan

Vons fresh from an artistic victory over Disneyland

has now set his sights on Red Lobster or as he refers

to them Dead Lobster.

 

Geert’s design of Mickey Mouse and Donald

Duck evilly cutting up and eating sharks made the

headlines in the New York Times, the International

Herald Tribune, the London Times and numerous

newspapers around the world. Within a week of the

stories, Disney announced that they would not be

serving shark fin soup at their restaurants in Hong

Kong. It was a major victory for the sharks and sent a

message loud and clear that sharks need to be

protected.

 

Red Lobster does not kill seals but they

have the power to stop the killing of hundreds of

thousands of baby seals in Canada every year.

 

All they have to do is to agree to join

the international boycott of Canadian seafood

products. Red Lobster alone purchases enough seafood

from Canada to negate the profits of the annual

Canadian seal slaughter.

 

So far they have refused to do so.

 

The Canadian government is not influenced

by public opinion. The majority of the people of

Canada oppose the seal slaughter. Canada receives more

protests from around the world each year than for any

other issue. And yet the atrocities continue.

 

The one language that the Canadian

government does understand is economic. The seal hunt

can be ended undermining the profits of the entire

Canadian seafood industry.

 

Snow crabs from Newfoundland and Nova

Scotia, mussels, sardines, lobster and scallops from

Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick must be

boycotted. Salmon both wild and farmed from British

Columbia must be boycotted.

 

Canadian fishermen and Canadian fishing

companies support the Canadian seal slaughter.

Therefore the Canadian seal slaughter cannot be

separated from the Canadian fishing industry.

 

The Red Lobster chain of seafood

restaurants has the power to end the horrific

slaughter of seals. All they have to do is refuse to

buy seafood products from Canada. They have decided

not to do this voluntarily. They will not listen to

the voices of conservation. They will not listen to

the scientists who warn that this slaughter is a

serious threat to the survival of the seals. They have

chosen to remain deaf to the concerns about the

incredible cruelty inflicted upon the seals. As the

ice floes off Eastern Canada run red with blood every

spring, Red Lobster profits from the same industry

that is responsible for this bloody carnage.

 

Geert’s image needs to be widely

distributed – on protest signs, on t-shits, on

billboards and across the worldwide web.

 

Red Lobster or should we now refer to them

as Dead Lobster must understand that until the cruel

and obscene slaughter of seals is ended, this protest

is not going to go away.

 

We must continually remind them of this.

 

Captain Paul Watson is urging everyone to

send a letter of protest to Red Lobster and attach the

image of Dead Lobster to your message.

 

Their corporate address is:

 

Red Lobster

5900 Lake Ellenor Drive

Orlando, FL 32809

(407) 245-4000

 

Guest Relations Hotline

Please call (800) LOBSTER (1-800-562-7837).

 

Website for contacting them is:

http://www.redlobster.com/contactus.asp

 

 

Captain Paul Watson

Founder and President - Sea Shepherd Conservation

Society - Sierra Club USA - The Farley Mowat Institute

President - Oceanic Research and Conservation Action

Force

P.O. Box 2616

Friday Harbor, Wa 98250

Tel: 360-370-5650 Cell: 310-701-3096

E-mail: Paulwatson

Website: www.Seashepherd.org

 

 

 

 

 

 

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