The European Union just voted to ban seal products as a protest of Canada's commercial harp seal hunt, which kills hundreds of thousands of baby seals every year. This new ban, supported by most of the EU public and Care2 activists, will take effect for the 2010 hunt.
It looks like the Canada’s sealing industry may just see an end after all! The European Parliament has voted to support the ban on seal products closing a giant market.
According to the Humane Society,
The Canadian government estimates that losing this primary market will cost Canada’s sealing industry $6.6 million (CAD) each year. The hunt brought in less than $7 million last year. It's not hard to do the math.
The Canadian government estimates that losing this primary market will cost Canada’s sealing industry $6.6 million (CAD) each year. The hunt brought in less than $7 million last year. It's not hard to do the math.
Just the promise of an EU ban was enough to drive the prices for seal fur down to $15 (CAD) per skin -- a decline of 86 percent since 2006. As a result, many sealers stayed home. Out of this year's quota of 280,000 harp seals, fewer than 60,000 have been killed so far.
Now that the EU has banned its trade in seal products, countless more seals will live their lives in peace from this year forward.
While this is an amazing victory, there’s still more to do.
Sign this petition to support Canadian legislation that would end Canada's seal hunt forever.
As I mentioned earlier on…these petitions are not sham. We get results, but we need to sign them. And it only takes a minute to sign any such petition. You know in all these years, I’ve met many people claiming to be such huge animal lovers but whenever they have been asked to help a little…they don’t show any interest. If you want to put an end to animal abuse, this is the least you can do & people don’t even want to do this. Some of my friends & I have been informing people about such links for almost 2 years on our animal community & believe me or not, I don’t have time to provide some useless link to people & then waste my time asking them to sign it.
My job is to inform people, not to convince anyone about signing these petitions. It’s entirely up to you. Anyway, this news about the victory for baby seals proves that Care 2 petitions are pretty authentic.
I’ve provided the link…you can go through it.
Source: http://www.care2.com/causes/animal-welfare/blog/historic-victory-for-seals/
Nadira Rahman
I’ve provided the link…you can go through it.
Source: http://www.care2.com/causes/animal-welfare/blog/historic-victory-for-seals/
Nadira Rahman
