Please sign this petition to help stop the annual canadian commercial seal hunt. Hundreds of thousands of innocent seals are killed every year for their fur. In 2009 the EU put a ban to the importation of seal products along with a  further 35 countries. As a result of the bans it costs more in tax dollars to run the seal hunt than it brings into the economy. Please help stop this horrific hunt! FACTS ABOUT THE CANADIAN SEAL HUNT: (Facts from: http://www.harpseals.org   Every year, when the time is "right" (as soon as the ice conditions permit and the seal pups start shedding their fuzzy white coats), a few hundred to a few thousand Canadian fishermen (almost all of European descent and most living in Newfoundland and the Magdalen Islands of Quebec), find their way to the floes and proceed to club, bludgeon, shoot, and skin tens to hundreds of thousands of harp seals.    About 95% of the seals killed in the commercial seal 'hunt' are 3 weeks to 3 months old.   In the first phase of the hunt (in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, dominated by sealers from the Magdalen Islands of Quebec), sealers typically approach the seals on the ice and then club them with 'hakapiks' (long sticks with a hooked blade at one end).   Over the years, various studies have been conducted to assess the level of animal suffering in the Canada's seal 'hunt'. An analysis by a panel of veterinarians funded by IFAW in 2001 showed that about 40% of the seals are skinned while alive and conscious.   In the past, sealers also kept some of the carcasses to sell for use in pet food or mink farms. However, when minks were fed harp seal flesh, they became diseased with 'foot pad necrosis' and failed to breed. Today, almost all the carcasses are left on the ice or dumped.   See more at: http://www.harpseals.org/about_the_hunt/index.php#sthash.Sw4ZgqHk.dpuf