Fwd: LA Harp Seal Protest 3/15

March 10, 2007

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Take Action for Seals -- Attend LA Protest Thurs. 3/15

TAKE ACTION!

Attend the protest to stand up for the harp seals!

Date

Thursday, March 15, 2007

Time

11:30 am - 2:30 pm

Location

550 South Hope Street

(Corner of W. 6th and S. Hope)

Los Angeles, 90071

Contact

Robb Mead

(949) 230-0430

robbmead

www.harpseals.org

Additional Resources

www.harpseals.org

www.seashepherd.org

Dear Rick,

Concerned citizens of Los Angeles and Orange County will gather outside the Canadian Consulate on Thursday, March 15th, to protest Canada's annual harp seal slaughter and promote the boycott of Canadian seafood. Over 30 other protests will take place in cities all around the world. This year, the Canadian government is ignoring its own mandate to apply the Precautionary Approach to ecological management as it stubbornly refuses to cancel the seal "hunt" despite poor ice conditions that could cause pups to drown in large numbers. Seal pups require thick, sturdy ice to hold them for weeks until they learn to swim.

Canada's mismanagement of the oceans has so far led to the collapse of the cod fishery, the destruction of 95% of the population of a half dozen deep-water fish off the Newfoundland coast, including the Greenland halibut, and the imperilment of the snow crab population. The Canadian government's next victim will be the harp seal, unless activists around the world succeed in pressuring the government to ban the seal "hunt." Citizens will gather at the Canadian Consulate to demand the cancellation of this year's industrial-scale slaughter of seal pups and to demand a permanent ban on the industrial slaughter of harp seals. Citizens will also educate passersby about the Canadian seafood boycott. This boycott is designed to put direct economic pressure on the Canadian fishing industry, the industry behind the largest slaughter of marine mammals in the world. Each spring in Atlantic Canada, over 300,000 defenseless baby harp seals (approximately 3 weeks to 3 months old pups) are massacred on the ice floes. In a matter of weeks, a pristine white nursery turns crimson, with hundreds of thousands of lifeless, skinless bodies strewn all over the ice. This industrial slaughter nets these off-season fishermen only about $40 a pelt. The massacre is perpetrated by a few thousand Canadians who beat and shoot these seals and skin many of them alive. The money these sealers receive for this is only about 5% of their yearly income from fishing. If these fishermen only stayed home for an extra two weeks, they would continue to earn the Employment Insurance benefits that they earn every year during the off-season. Since it is the support of the Canadian seafood industry that perpetuates the slaughter, the Canadian seafood boycott can pressure this industry to take a stand against this annual massacre and thus result in legislation in Canada to ban the slaughter of seals. Since the U.S. is the largest consumer of Canadian seafood, importing about 70% of Canada's seafood exports (equating to approximately CAN$3 billion dollars), American consumers alone can put enough pressure on Canada's seafood industry to end the massacres once and for all.

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