End The Seal Hunt By Using Your Buying Power!
April 11, 2007 @ 09:11 AM (EST)
Source: Thepetitionsite.com
Last year, the hunt left more than 350,000 seals dead -- almost all of them were babies as young as 12 days of age. One of our most effective weapons against the hunt is a boycott of Canadian seafood.
Why? Seal hunting is an off-season activity for Canada's east coast commercial fishermen. Only a small fraction of their incomes come from selling seal skins to the fur industry. [1] The majority of their income is made through seafood products such as snow crab, cod, scallops and shrimp...
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