Aussie Company Supports Cruel Seal Cull - Take Action!‏

Aussie Company Supports Cruel Seal Cull - Take Action!‏

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<p>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.animalsaustralia.org/take_action/namibian-seal-slaughter/">http://www.animalsaustralia.org/take_action/namibian-seal-slaughter/</a></p>
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<p>Aussie Company Supports Cruel Seal Cull - Take Action!&rlm;</p>
<p>The world's largest and cruellest slaughter of seals is about to commence on 1st July in Namibia. <strong>Australian-based fur and skins company</strong>, Hatem Yavuz, is <strong>directly implicated</strong> in this annual brutal slaughter. Hatem Yavuz alone bought all of the dead seal pup skins from last year's cull in order to make fur coats.</p>
<p>This year, the highest quota ever &mdash; 91,000 cape fur seals &mdash; are set to be killed. Most pups will be so young that they are still being nursed by their mothers. The terrified pups will be rounded up, separated from their mothers and brutally clubbed to death.</p>
<p>The market for Namibian Cape Fur Seal skins has collapsed over recent years due to lack of demand and import bans in the European Union, the United States, Mexico and South Africa because of the cruelty involved in the sealing methods. As of 2008, <strong>there was only one company left buying seal skins from Namibia &mdash; Hatem Yavuz</strong>.</p>
<p>An international campaign to expose and pressure Hatem Yavuz has been started by Seal Alert-South Africa. Please add your voice and express your outrage to Hatem Yavuz for their culpability in animal cruelty, and <strong>call on them to commit to never again buying Namibian Cape Fur Seal skins</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://www.animalsaustralia.org/take_action/namibian-seal-slaughter/">http://www.animalsaustralia.org/take_action/namibian-seal-slaughter/</a></p>
<p>The annual Namibian seal cull is regarded as the cruellest in the world. The sheer terror of the slaughter can cause pups to vomit their mother's milk in fear. Once hit several times with a wooden club, and assumed dead, they are cut with a knife to 'bleed out' &mdash; sometimes whilst conscious, before being skinned. Please help pressure the Australian company that has been financially supporting this annual slaughter.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.animalsaustralia.org/take_action/namibian-seal-slaughter/">http://www.animalsaustralia.org/take_action/namibian-seal-slaughter/</a></p>
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<p>I was shocked to find out about the Namibian seal cull and the involvement of your Australia-based company in this cruel slaughter of seal pups.</p>
<p>Namibia's mass seal slaughter is barbaric and completely unnecessary. Clubbing seal pups that are still nursing - a practise banned by all other sealing countries because of its cruelty - is utterly appalling.</p>
<p>By being the major buyer of Namibian seal pelts, your company has been directly responsible for suffering and deaths of thousands of defenceless pups in recent years.</p>
<p>As an Australian citizen, it is deeply distressing to learn that an Australian company is directly responsible for such brutality towards animals - all supposedly for the sake of fashion.</p>
<p>You effectively have the power to put an end to this annual cull by discontinuing to buy these pelts. I therefore urge you to publicly commit to never again purchase Namibian seal cub pelts and to inform the Namibian government of your decision.

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