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Article: Seal hunt shameful
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- Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME
- Article date:
- April 21, 2005
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On March 29, Canada's annual seal hunt began. This hunt will
continue for the next several weeks. During this period, close to
320,000 baby seals will be killed for their fur. Canada's annual seal
hunt is the largest marine mammal hunt in the world with a three-
year kill quota of almost one million seals.
The manner in which these helpless, sentient beings are killed is
brutal and inhumane. The seal hunters club these seal pups over the
head with a heavy metal club called a hakapik. They then skin them,
often while they are still alive. The poor, helpless pups are then
left there to die a painful death.
Many observers have heard these poor creatures crying as they lay
there waiting for ...