Vegetarian Star

Vegetarian and animal welfare activist Kesha doesn’t want to party anywhere in Canada right now because the country is holding its annual seal hunt, where a quota to kill several hundred thousand seals has been set in an attempt to profit from the sale of these animals’ meat, fur and oil.

“Canada’s night life rules, but clubbing seals is cruel and wastes millions of tax dollars,” reads the ad that has the phrase, “Canada’s Club Scene Sucks” splattered across the front in big letters.

The Humane Society International is on location at this year’s hunt, and has released a press release describing what it has witnessed since the hunt began on April 11.

“On the third day of the commercial seal slaughter, sealers are violating the few, inadequate rules that exist to protect seals,” said Rebecca Aldworth, executive director of Humane Society International/Canada.

“Everywhere, baby seals are being shot in the face, the neck, the back or the flippers. Wounded and in agony, they are crawling through and choking on their own blood. Some of the shot seal pups slid into the water and the sealers couldn’t retrieve them–they died horribly and painfully. So many of the baby seals they are killing still have much of their white fur intact, meaning they are just two or three weeks of age.”

This year, the government is allowing seal hunters to slaughter 468,200 during the season, which is the highest quota ever set.

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