Letter to Govt via Nature.com

You can write a letter too, @ this link:
NATURE.COM

Here's mine (cuz i care):


Dear Premier Rachel Notley and the Bighorn Country consultation team,

I’m writing you to express my grave concern for the future you wish to build --ie. Honing status-quo [harmful] fossil-fuel developmemt & tar sands expansion:  We are at a crossroads where protecting old-growth forests & wildlife habitat is critical to our future existence -- noT destroying them to make room for more of what is killing us, ie. the cumulative CO2, GHGs & pollution exacerbated by fossil fuel extraction, fracking, tar sands etc..

I am asking you, for the sake of all our futures, to stop supporting deadly polluting projects -- & instead support the creation of a new provincial park to protect Bighorn Country. I believe we need a Wildland Provincial Park designation in the area that prioritizes wildlife habitat and responsible recreation.

The current proposed park boundaries, from Banff and Jasper National parks in the west to the Forestry Trunk Road in the east, are the best way to safeguard the area from development pressure and protect species-at-risk like Grizzlies, Bull Trout and Wolverines. Preserving our wild rivers, forests and mountains is a legacy for all Canadians, & ought to be your govt's top priority -- rather than honing yet more building/mines for polluting tar sands development/ expansion :  THAT is unacceptable today given the tenuous climate we are facing, along with Canada's pledged goals thereto, largely caused by the ravages of unsustainable industries - e.g.. forestry, fossil fuels, mining - on our environment, health & our very future..

Thank you for listening, & for prioritizing this important project.  Real Canadians care about our parks & wilderness, & we take our job as stewards of the land seriously.  We can no longer keep ignoring the toxic wasteland that's replaced carbon-sequestering oxygen-rich forests/ wilderness by the tar sands industry:  ie.   ie. A mega-calamity that will (& already has) put us in dire straits vis-a-vis emissions targets, future prosperity  & renewable-energy goals if allowed to grow unchecked:  that's not climate action!

What we need now is real leadership - ie. helping us transition into thriving sustainability, of which protecting wildlife & their habitat is a key part.
Please protect Alberta wilderness by creating this new provincial park - which will not replace the precious old-growth forest further north, e.g.. The Boreal - along with the legislation/ policies to ensure their protection.

Yes it's time for our leaders to focus on strengthening Canada's wilderness/wildlife protection laws, which are a woeful testament to years of stodgy old-boy politics preoccupied largely with corrupt wealth accumulation of the few &  unsustainable resource mgmt instead of building a prosperous thriving province for all.  Please don't be another backward economic-growth-addicted self-serving premier leading this province into ruin at the expense of our natural environment's health, upon which our own depends:  we cannot afford such idiocy at this critical point..

Yours sincerely,

Sarah (Saz) Chesterman
Vancouver, BC, Canada

Letter to GovT: Please uphold the ban on Seal-Hunt products!

{i'm on a ROLL}  YOU oughta write one too -
Use this link:  HSI Letter  


                                                                (from Humane Society website)

This is what i added (inside HSI's intro & ending in blue):

SUBJECT:  Please withdraw Canada's WTO challenge

Dear Decision Maker,
I am writing to express my strong opposition to Canada's request for a dispute panel to be established at the World Trade Organization in response to the European Union ban on seal product trade.

After a decade of increasingly active campaigning opposing Canada's Commercial Seal Hunt, i have come close to despair at Government's strange refusal to even acknowledge its rising swell of opposition - despite record-breaking numbers joining in the rally to 'Stop the Seal Hunt!', via numerous petitions boasting 100's of 1,000's of signatures, global high-profile celebrity appeals & involvement by virtually all large animal-welfare non-profits besides HSI:  PETA, IFAW, WSPA & many others.  I've watched wistfully as other, smaller, campaigns achieve results... cheered when the EU seal-products ban was announced... & cried tears of joy when Putin banned all seal-hunt trade in Russia.  Yet --still-- we Canadians are forced to suffer the shame of seeing our public servants (INEXPLICABLY) dig in their heels, refuse to compromise & stubbornly support the Seal 'Hunt' using lies, misinformation & misnomers via mainstream media.

On video-streaming websites like YouTube, the general public can see exactly what this appalling event is about.  If you have never seen it (& it seems that is the case), i recommend you view for yourself exactly WHO & WHAT you are supporting using OUR tax dollars, against most Canadians' wishes.  You will see why much of this footage comes with warnings of its graphic nature 'not suitable for children'.  You will see that, contrary to what you may be told, there's NOTHING noble, 'traditional' --or even HONEST-- about this supposed 'way of life' (which First Nations don't even support).
Full info @ this link:  The Cdn. Seal Hunt

NOBODY I know (including me) WANTS to watch filmed footage of the Seal 'Hunt':  the most disturbing, sadistic display of cowardly violence i have ever had the misfortune to witness.  Even if the Seal 'Hunt' WERE economically sound, sustainable & humane (which it's clearly NOT), the extreme distress inflicted so brutally would, for most Canadians, cancel out any benefits.  As with other questionable stances taken by Govt. recently, it appears we're being led away from future self-sufficiency/ sustainability, against the wishes of 86% of citizens & against our constitution (which asks us to be 'wildlife stewards') while condoning abuse of young wild seals in their own native habitat (which our constitution says must be protected) in a remote community that becomes more of a burden/drain each year...
[WE MUST DEFEND OUR WILDLIFE, NOT KILL THEM!]

PM Harper's reckless WTO challenge to the EU ban would cost Canadian taxpayers an estimated $10 million --yet another subsidy to the sealing industry stolen from the overwhelming majority of Canadians who want it to end-- just as Canada attempts to negotiate a trade deal with the European Union reportedly worth $12 billion annually to our economy.   It seems incomprehensible to risk beneficial relations with our second largest trading partner (leaders in sustainable technologies as well as our key source of ecotourism) while rushing to push through a dodgy deal (FIPPA) with an undemocratic republic (China) whose environmental record is already the world's WORST! These are not the sound moves of a well-informed government.

I implore you to consider the many benefits of upholding/ respecting EU's ban - aside from purely economic ones, which are no-brainers. We must see this ban as a blessing, an opportunity to free Canada from unnecessary dependencies & thus pave the way for modern, streamlined, sustainable technologies that don't involve destroying crucial wildlife ecosystems, disrespecting other life forms or polluting our environment.

I am asking that you immediately withdraw the WTO challenge against the EU & do everything in your power to put a final end to 'Canada's Shame', the Commercial Seal Hunt.

Sincerely,
Sarah Chesterman
Vancouver, BC

iMPoRTaNT ANTi-SeaLHuNT LiNKs...

(UPDATED POST)

The commercial Seal Hunt iS 'Canada's Shame' - a gross insult to this gentlest, most harmless native mammal - as are all human intrusions into wildlife ecosystems.  So I must help stop this terrible cruelty any way i can...

Won'T you please join me? Below are some important links...

('We're worth it!')

PETITIONS:

URGENT:
*Support Sen. Harb's Bill to End Canada's Seal Slaughter:*
CLiCK THiS LiNK to SiGN:  http://is.gd/Y8QFUl

As per this letter recently received from PETA (below), Senate is debating the issue - so your support by signing the above petition would be timely!

Oct. 17, 2012
Dear Sarah,
As you may know, Canadian Senator Mac Harb introduced Bill S-210 to phase out the commercial seal hunt.  Just yesterday Sen. Harb delivered a compelling speech before the Senate, and debate on the bill resumed. He stated, "The government has to sit down with the stakeholders in the industry and talk realistically about an industry-wide buyout."  Now that Russia -- which had been importing 95% of Canadian seal pelts -- has joined the U.S., EU, Mexico and others in banning seal fur imports, there are no markets.
In a recent Huffington Post blog post, Sen. Harb acknowledged that animal advocacy groups such as PETA and our supporters have played an important role in moving Bill S-210 forward.  Now is the time to show support for the bill as the debate continues by taking action here.  As Sen. Harb says, "Your efforts are making a difference."
Thank you for everything that you do to help animals!
King regards,
Tracy Reiman
Executive Vice President
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals


SOME KEY LINKS TO FRIENDS OF SEALS:

www.friendsforseals.org/ - 100% dedicated to ending the Seal 'Hunt'

www.twitter.com/FriendsForSeals - Follow FFS on Twitter!

http://is.gd/f4dCz1 - FFS's list of Cdn. seafood co's to boycott

http://www.hsi.org/issues/protect_seals/live_from_the_ice.html - Humane Society Int'l + 'Protect Seals'

http://www.ifaw.org/seals - International Fund for Animal Welfare

www.seashepherd.org/ - Paul Watson + his band of Sea-heroes

The HARD FACTS on the Seal 'Hunt', by PAUL WATSON:

http://www.seashepherd.org/news-and-media/editorial-110401-1.html

http://www.peta.org/ - People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

www.mediapeta.com/ - PETA's media page

http://www.antisealingcoalition.ca/ - Canada's Anti-Sealing Coalition
www.catcahelpanimals.org/ - Ericka Ceballos, animal-rights activist

www.all-creatures.org/hope/antisealing-20070401.htm - Anthony Marr of HOPE (Heal Our Planet Earth)

www.animalliberationfront.com/ALFront/Actions-Canada/Canada-Index.htm - Animal Liberation Front's Canadian page

www.twitter.com/detonarte - my Twitter, link to many seal friends

http://is.gd/H0NOR8 - brochure i designed for CATCA (cover)

http://is.gd/D3sBJ9 - brochure i designed for CATCA (inside)


OTHER ANTI-SEALHUNT LINKS:

http://www.myspace.com/sarah-doll/blog/330279353 - MySpace blog

http://is.gd/hOevPo - My letter to Michael Ignatieff

http://is.gd/wfuGTA - My letter to Prime Minister Harper

http://is.gd/KDJioG - My letter to HSI's 'Protect Seals' project

- See also my blogroll & 'Sites i Like' @ R.H. sidebar -->

Let me know of other like-minded links, & i'll add em!

Thanks,
SxO
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Vote to STOP THE SEAL HUNT

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ELECTION 2011 (Canada-wide)
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The Green Party is the only political party with a full and comprehensive vision for Canada's future, and the ONLY political entity opposing Canada's sadistic commercial Seal 'Hunt' - in which seal nurseries are invaded by hakapik-wielding half-humans called sealers, who turn the ice floes into an unforgiveable, bloody carnage by bashing baby seals to death in front of their frantic mothers...

This makes voting easy – for me AND for the seals.  Because Canada needs to stop the seal hunt: NOW



This shameful, UNSUSTAINABLE slaughter is not only barbarically cruel but a gross violation of our constitutional duties as wildlife stewards – supported by our federal government's DFO via false claims that seals need "culling" because they "destroy" juvenile cod populations thus "jeopardizing" Canada's fishing industry. YET SEALS EAT MAINLY HALIBUT, MACKEREL AND OTHER PREDATORS OF JUVENILE COD (i.e. FEWER SEALS = FEWER COD)!!  In other words, "sealing" is a senseless violent crime committed against a harmless wildlife species.

The plain facts expose our government's ignorance, lies and willingness to deceive the people of Canada - FOR WHAT? THE SEALING INDUSTRY - WHICH YIELDS LESS THAN 0.1% OF SEALERS' INCOMES - SERVES ONE PURPOSE:  PROVIDING PELTS FOR MANUFACTURE OF FASHION APPAREL (which is why, horrrendously, up to 42% of the baby seals targeted are STRIPPED OF THEIR PELTS WHILE STILL CONSCIOUS, their carcasses discarded onto the ice floes to rot).

Increasingly and repeatedly, most Canadians have denounced this disgrace in countless petitions, polls and protests. The United States outlawed all trade in seal products years ago, and recently the European Union caught up with a Europe-wide ban on all seal-pelt trade. Other countries, eg. New Zealand and Scotland, have legislated protection of their seals (see http://www.seashepherd.org/get-involved/rewards.html).

So why is Gail Shea, Canada's DFO Minister, appealing the European ban AT A COST OF $10 MILLION taxpayers' dollars??  And why does our government NOT support non-lethal harvest of seal hair, a viable new industry initiated by SeaShepherd's Paul Watson (which got declarations of support from Canadian fishing industry groups, conservation, animal rights and academic organizations, and the provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia in 1998)? Scroll to March 1994:  http://www.seashepherd.org/who-we-are/our-history.html.

WELL:  May 2nd is the day to ask for change – by doing the right thing:  VOTING GREEN!! (see http://www.greenparty.ca/)


REMEMBER:  Not voting = denying yourself a democratic voice; Voting AGAINST a candidate/party in some odds-based strategy = denying your true values representation. The REAL YOU needs to be heard!

Anti-SealHunt Motorcade: MEDIA!

Anthony Marr's blog report of the Anti-SealHunt Motorcade:
http://homosapienssaveyourearth.blogspot.com/2011/03/

See the video of this event here:
http://homosapienssaveyourearth.blogspot.com/2011/03/video

PlanetSedge said...
I felt privileged taking part in this event protesting Canada's commercial Seal 'Hunt', for the sake of the seals. But i'm somewhat shocked to be the first to comment here, more than a week later - since the Seal Hunt's sadly still going strong, with thousands more baby seals set to be slaughtered...
I for one cannot in good conscience allow this senseless, unfair ambush on wildlife habitats (where humans have no business even BEING) in a gruesome bloodbath that defies all decency + degrades our very dignity as Canadians ~BESIDES MAKING A MOCKERY OF OUR CONSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES AS WILDLIFE STEWARDS...
So our only other option is to try + stop this slaughter, using our solidarity from the Motorcade as a weapon for fighting this 'evil within'...
With this Call to Arms, i hope to see some of those nice people i met last weekend on this blog - where (with Anthony's expert guidance!) we can formulate more strategies + increase our chances of success!?
Here's to you,
SARAH C. (the redhead who held up starting-gate traffic!)

MOTORCADE FOR THE SEALS 2011

Organized by CATCA and HOPE-CARE

The Anti-SealHunt Motorcade - March 26th, Saturday at 10:00AM

This year for the Annual Anti-Sealing Day, CATCA is delighted to join forces with HOPE-CARE and its Founder/President, our colleague Anthony Marr, who is well known for his animal advocacy work around the world and who was honoured with the "Best All-Around Activist Award" by Negotiation Is Over (NIH) in January 2010, and the "Henry Spira Grassroots Activist Award" by Farm Animal Rights Movement (FARM) at the 2010 Animal Rights National Conference in Washington DC.
"Tell someone that 360,000 baby seals are being killed this year, his left brain will shelf it under 'big number', and his right brain doesn't quite see it, his emotion doesn't get involved," says Anthony, "But if you can somehow show his right brain its scale, he'll likely take action."
So, how do we show this vision to the public? Via media, of course. Says Marr, "What media wants is not so much information but drama, something new in the message or the delivery - preferably both..."
The idea of the motorcade was conceived by Marr for his Compassion for Animals Road Expeditions (CARE-tours), which have proven extremely effective as media tools.
Although he has done many motorcades in the US, Marr has yet to have one in his own hometown of Vancouver. Now it's Vancouver's turn!
We ask that media show up around 10:30 AM, when we will be decorating vehicles with posters and ribbons. TV cameras will go around zooming into the posters etc., while reporters will randomly interview participants.
At 11:00 AM, Anthony Marr will lead the procession on his motorcycle from downtown Vancouver via the Sea-to-Sky Highway to Whistler, rain or shine. The event will end at Whistler at 1 PM with a media conference.
We hope you will able to go all the way to Whistler for a good arrival show. Even if not, please join in the departure from Vancouver.  After that, you can go as far as you want - Horseshoe Bay, Lions Bay, Brittania Beach, Squamish... Those without cars, please come for the media assembly.  See you there!
Ericka
Campaigns Against The Cruelty To Animals
Western Canada Anti Sealing Coalition
http://www.catcahelpanimals.org/

TIMELINE: MOTORCADE for the SEALS - VANCOUVER to WHISTLER
10:00 AM - Meet at the waterfront parking lot @ Beach & Bute
10:30 AM - Vehicle decoration & media reception
11:00 AM - Departure from Vancouver
12:00 PM - Media reception in Squamish
 1:00 PM - Media reception in Whistler
 1:15 PM – Lunch in Whistler, then return to Vancouver

Co-organizer Ericka Ceballos of CATCA has taken her message to Europe and participated in many large animal-welfare conferences worldwide. Due in large part to her efforts, the EU joined the US in banning the importation of Canadian seal products.

Check out Ericka’s past work @ http://www.catcahelpanimals.org/

MEDIA RELEASE:  http://homosapienssaveyourearth.blogspot.com/2011/03/video

CATCA helps seals...

(at least, they're trying to!) - and SO SHOULD WE...
My friend Ericka Ceballos of CATCA kindly forwarded me the following link of a blog written by an Anti-Sealing Coalition activist who has witnessed the commercial Seal 'Hunt' firsthand.  Here it is, wrenchingly disturbing info and all...
http://antisealingcoalition.ca/blog/category/anti-sealing/
(Oh, i just wish this bloody 'Seal Hunt' would STOP!!)  It's animal abuse at its most extreme, + a governmental cover-up that BARS anyone from witnessing, photographing or otherwise observing this disgraceful slaughter (two were prosecuted + sentenced for WITNESSING the seal hunt - i'll find the lnks)... it's a heinous misuse of public funds, used to subsidize an 'industry' that has achieved a Europe-wide ban on its trade - but also, is being used to APPEALING this ban, to the tune of $10 million public funds, by DFO Minister Gail Shea.  She violates her duty as a public servant - along with her constitutional duty to wildlife stewardship, which does NOT include mass killings thereof!) - and her lies, posturing and outright propaganda in support of the Seal Hunt are SERIOUS BREACHES of OFFICE - if not crimes against diversity...
This isn't a worthy OR sustainable Canadian "tradition", as Shea claims:  it's a shameful legacy of lies, murder, pain, and violence against our country's native wildlife species - WHOSE HABITATS WE ARE SUPPOSED TO PROTECT...
FIGURE IT OUT, CANADA:  VOTE AGAINST THE SEAL HUNT!  The Green Party is the only Canadian political party that officially opposes this Seal 'Hunt' sickness, if you can believe it.
YES, that means CONS, LIBERALS + NDP's perpetuate + support corruption, mixhandling taxpayers' money and unsustainable activities/businesses... So you may want to reconsider a party which has the integrity to reject old 'status quo' warhorses for a positive new direction.  Check them out::  www.greenparty.ca

I hope all my friends will be attending the Motorcade to Save Seals this Saturday, March 26th. (More info on that to come)
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            ....DOES THIS LOOK RIGHT TO YOU?
    
COME ON, CANADA - VOTE TO STOP THE SEAL HUNT!
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AgainsT AnimaL TesTing

FACT: Animal research is not only cruel:  it's also USELESS...

"There is nothing quite as useless, misleading and harmful as animal experimentation."
-Professor Pietro Croce, M.D.

Dr. Croce is part of a large and growing movement of doctors, scientists & educated public who are opposed to animal-based experimentation on the grounds that:
a) Animals & humans do not get the same diseases;
b) The way a non-human animal responds to treatments does not predict how a human will respond.

Ignoring these fundamental differences has been very costly to human health - as these examples (just a tiny fraction of the thousands) prove:
- PCP is a sedative for chimpanzees;
- Penicillin kills cats & guinea pigs but has saved many human lives;
- Arsenic is not poisonous to rats, mice or sheep;
- Morphine is a sedative for humans but is a stimulant for cats, goats & horses.

In other words, all information documenting reported animal responses in laboratories does NOT determine a product's effectiveness/safety for use by humans.  Human medicine cannot be based on veterinary medicine; it is in fact dangerous to apply data from one species to another. So why continue harming/torturing animals with these evil tests?
ANIMAL TESTING IS FUNDED BY PHARMACEUTICAL CO's, TO PROTECT THEIR ASSETS BY PROVIDING THEM WITH LEGAL ALIBIS IN CIVIL SUITS and/or COURT ACTIONS.
Abolishing animal research would mean that the billions of dollars poured into worthless animal experimentation could be redirected into prevention & the kinds of research which actually have a chance of advancing human medicine.

If you STILL feel testing human products on animals serves the slightest worthy purpose, please read the damning declarations on this topic by experts in the field - i.e. some of the world's top doctors, experimenters & scientists - @ this link:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mQjNAT1rbJAYp_P7pNnp-EAX3Dm86vU-j_Ix5wdE9ps/edit

SOURCE: http://caatinfo.org/CAATHOME.htm

To OVFA...

[My guestbook comment on Our Voices For Animals website, 01/05/2011]

OVFA, i admire your work very much - Sabrina's writings are particularly moving, and strike a resonant chord. I've loved animals since I was little - as most children do: our natural instinct from day one. Not to belittle, or to eat, or to use for any other selfish human purpose. That the opposite has been encouraged by even those considered “good” people for so long is perplexing, if not upsetting at the deepest level of my being. I too aspire to a world in which animals are respected as fellow creatures, and treated by all humans with compassion and kindness. Only then, as Albert Schweitzer once said, is there any hope of being happy - now or in future...

BE KIND 2 ANIMALS (for F@#K's sake!)

IF humans can be so cruel to their BEST FRIENDS...
WHAT ARE WE COMING TO???

February 1, 2011 :  A Whistler, BC man sought financial compensation for 'emotional trauma' after slaughtering - in the most cold-blooded, disgusting manner possible - 100 of his own sled-dogs, afterward horrifying most of the general public by trying to JUSTIFY his decision to 'cull' (= kill) his beautiful hard-working animals saying he couldn't afford them after 2010 Olympics business dropped (huh? who wouldn't anticipate that math? NOT valid...) & that they weren't 'adoptable':  a 'cullible', heartlless P.O.S.... Here's my response:

HOW can such a horrible fate be decided for these beautiful, innocent creatures in the first place? by an animal-based outfit - IN AN INDUSTRY THAT, YOU'D THINK, WOULD PUT ANIMALS FIRST & ENFORCE THE HIGHEST STANDARDS OF ANIMAL TREATMENT?? How could anyone who owns/runs a dogsledding outfit NOT be an animal lover??? & how could an animal lover even CONSIDER carrying out this monstrous & merciless act of PuRE EViL?????
I became vegan because these & other equally difficult questions have no happy answers. Most humans suck.
Is 'culling' (= killing) BC's precious wildlife (& now, apparently, its working creatures) so common that those with cruel intent toward them think such brutality is OK?  It is NOT.  SO, BC Government:  I suggest we legislate much stricter laws to protect the innocent - i.e. non-human - animals among us, to afford them the protection they deserve from such potential harmful situations - inflicted on them by humans.  Natch.
Those responsible for this sickening slaughter MUST be severely dealt with in court, to be made examples of in underscoring how grossly unacceptable such actions are in our society.  Secondly, we need to put proper (i.e. updated) animal-welfare laws in place to protect our most vulnerable members of society.

One wonders, post-trauma, why the SPCA did not conduct an inspection of the sled-dogs' home and place of work, as they had apparently intended?  Why did Eileen Dreger (of the SPCA) decide these dogs were 'not adoptable' on one person's (sight-unseen) say-so? Why did the SPCA not at least attempt to provide some sort of help where it was clearly needed?  I just don't get it.

As an anti-speciesist & longtime-vegetarian-turning-vegan, lifetime pet owner, I have come to believe that the very best we could do for all the thousands (if not millions) of non-animal species with whom we share the planet is to LEAVE THEM BE to live their lives as their ecosystems/instincts dictate, without human interference - which would of course include keeping their wilderness habitats intact & therefore preserve Earth's precious ecosystems.  BUT!  THAT ideal doesn't take into account our historic ties with domesticated animals & our self-appointed [arrogant?] positions of responsibility as their 'stewards' (which STILL does not authorize/legitimize 'culling' of any sort)... If we weren't such selfish creatures, as some rare & dedicated souls (eg. Jane Goodall) have discovered we can learn so much more about them (& thus about ourselves) through sensitive hands-off observation of animals in the wild than by killing/owning/using them for selfish purposes.  Instead of diminishing, the latter has grown to unsustainable proportions - ( which would be logical, given our increasingly sedentary - i.e. lazy - lifestyles/outlooks & lost connections with Earth/nature).  With nature - in particular rainforests - in such a global crisis, going vegan really would  -dependance on technology that distance us further from our ties with nature & Earth obviously grown  of :  this perspective is gaining many followers, because it feels good - AND because its practice helps reduce the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and ecological/environmental destruction caused by meat-producing industries... Do yourself a favour and look into Veganism's many benefits - if you haven't already...

[ Related article (click this link) ]

I hope this sickening story - and the justifiable outrage surrounding it - will stick in people's minds as a sobering-up of how so many innocent creatures are abused for selfish human purposes (kept from view and just as undeservedly forgotten).

Eg. The massacre of baby seals on our east coast continues, despite endless petitions and protests, with government subsidies/supprt from fisheries minister Gail Shea – an avid proponent of this unthinkably indecent horror show, who recently filed a formal challenge to the EU ban on trading in these commodities of butchery on behalf of Canada (behind our backs)...

Since Canadians get nowhere telling government (= our public servants!) that we support the EU's and all other (U.S.) widespread bans on all trade resulting from Canada's cruel SealHunt, then we must protest with our actions and - most importantly - our pocketbooks.  This involves:  (a) BOYCOTTING all Canadian seafood products, which includes fast-food chains such as McDonald's and Red Lobster, (b) BOYCOTTING all fashion designers who market products made from baby-seal fur/skins - such as Dolce & Gabbana, Donna Karan/DKNY, Gucci, Prada and Versace... [For a highly comprehensive list of answers to questions on the Seal Hunt, go to Paul Watson's Sea Shepherd site @ this link:  http://www.seashepherd.org/seals/seals-faq.html ... Don't let our wildlife suffer such horrible endings – if we don't take the initiative to change – who will?

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