Monsters of Canada Started Their Seal Slaughter Today!

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McCartney offers a win win sollution to stop the

Canadian seal slaughter, 3-25-06

Sat, 25 Mar 2006 12:17:54 -0800

 

CHARLOTTETOWN -- Rock icon Paul McCartney and his

wife, Heather Mills,

have

issued another appeal for Canada to end the East Coat

seal hunt.

 

The plea came as hunters and protesters prepare to

head out onto the

ice for

the start of the annual hunt today.

 

McCartney said yesterday in a video message from

London that it's time

for

the Canadian government to consider a licence buy-back

program to

compensate

sealers while ending a hunt that is facing mounting

international

condemnation.

 

" This is a win-win solution, " McCartney said in a

message shown to

reporters

in Charlottetown by the Humane Society of the United

States. " Fishermen

would be compensated for any lost revenue when the

hunt is closed and

Canada

would have a graceful way to put an end to a cruel and

needless

practice. "

 

The couple visited a seal nursery in the Gulf of St.

Lawrence earlier

this

month.

 

 

They said they had to come before the hunt began

because it would have

broken their hearts to see such beautiful animals

killed.

 

At least 325,000 seals, most of them between 2 weeks

and 3 months old,

will

be harvested in this year's hunt.

 

The Humane Society of the United States is one of

several groups

protesting

this year's hunt.

 

The society is behind a global boycott of Canadian

seafood, which is

attempting to pressure Ottawa into ending the hunt by

cutting off

markets.

Anti-hunt forces are also pushing for more bans on

seal products.

 

The United States is one of several countries that has

banned the

importation of marine mammal products.

 

Canadian officials defend the hunt as an economic

benefit. They also

say it

controls the size of seal herds, which helps depleted

fish stocks

recover.