Canada wins the Gold Medal for Cruelty to Animals

Right now the world is focused on the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, and PETA is doing all that it can to call global attention to the ghastly,
industrial-scale commercial slaughter of Canada's harp seals—a massacre
that is scheduled to begin soon after the games end. Now is the time
for us to mobilize caring people around the world who can help put an
end to this abomination. Now is when these gentle animals need your support the most.

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Will you join us in speaking up for seals and all animals killed for their skins?

With your help, we are making sure that as many people as possible know
that just days after the Olympic flame is put out, the lives of tens of
thousands of baby harp seals will be extinguished as well.

Before most of these animals even get a chance to eat their first solid
meal or learn how to swim, they will be shot in the head or have their
skulls crushed by heavy clubs. Their mothers will be forced to witness
the carnage, but they will be helpless to stop it and will cry out as
their babies are killed. I long ago ceased to be surprised by the
suffering that people inflict on animals, but the images of dead,
skinless seals lying on the blood-soaked ice are truly sickening.


That's why the Canadian government wants to keep the massacre as quiet as possible, especially now that the eyes of the world are
focused on the Olympics' host nation. So PETA is bringing news of the
seals' plight to the crowds in the Olympic village—and to people all
around the world.


Wherever Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has traveled, PETA supporters have been there in full voice. Protesters from PETA and our
affiliates have demonstrated across North America as well as in France,
Switzerland, Germany, Australia, and many other countries. More than
530,000 people have signed our Facebook petition calling for an end to
the massacre. A long list of celebrities, including Perez Hilton,
"Sugar" Shane Mosley, and gold medal–winning snowboarder Hannah Teter,
are using their star power to help us raise awareness of the bloody
slaughter and generate unprecedented press coverage—exactly the kind of
publicity that the Canadian government is so deeply afraid of.


We need everyone who is outraged by this senseless carnage to speak out right now. Most of all, we need the voice—and the financial
support—of caring PETA members like you. There are two ways that you
can help these animals right now:
Sign our petition demanding that the Canadian government bring an immediate and permanent end to the seal slaughter.

The Canadian government is as intractable an opponent as any that we
have faced. With North American and European markets closed to its
bloody products, Canada has started looking into selling its seal fur
in China—a move that has outraged the Canadian people, the majority of
whom want to the see the slaughter brought to an end.


But even the most unrepentant animal abusers can be beaten. Since PETA launched its campaign against the seal slaughter, opposition to
the massacre has become a global movement—and the pressure on the
Canadian government is intensifying every day. This is a fight that we can and—with your help—will win.


Please sign our petition, 

Thank you.


Sign petition here:


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