Your actions are essential -- help save seals now!








The seal hunt will
begin again in a matter of days.
Your actions are essential -- here's how
you can save seals right now.
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March 13,
2009






Dear Ms. S. E.,

When you look out over the miraculous baby seal nursery
on the ice floes of Eastern Canada, it's hard to believe that
275,000 harp seal pups may be killed there in a matter of days.
You can't imagine the horror until you witness it
firsthand.

It may come as a
shock that Canada's cruel commercial seal hunt still happens
every year at this time -- so many people I've talked to think
that the hunt ended years ago.

That's what the Canadian fishing industry wants you to
believe, and we won't let it get away with it. You can save millions of baby seals' lives and
help end the hunt once and for all -- sign the pledge to boycott
Canadian seafood.

Why boycott Canadian seafood? A small group of fishermen
in Eastern Canada kill seal pups for their fur during the
off-season and sell the pelts -- mostly to European markets --
for a tiny fraction of their income.

The fishing industry won't stop the killing just because
it's the humane thing to do, so give it a choice: End the slaughter, or go
under.

Our goal is to have one million individuals
participating in the boycott -- there are already more than
630,000 people who have pledged to forgo Canadian seafood, and
if everyone who sees this email tells 5 friends, we'll
meet our goal overnight and send the fishing industry a message
it can't ignore.

We've reached a critical
tipping point in the effort to end the slaughter: Next
month, the European Union will consider banning its trade in
seal products, shutting the doors on one of the largest
markets for seal fur.

Lawmakers are
responding. We just need you and everyone who reads this
email to take this simple pledge on behalf of seals.
Let's seal the deal to end the hunt -- take a moment to sign your name, and
then tell your friends and family about the plight of baby
seals.

Two things will end the slaughter: Shutting down markets
for seal fur and hitting the Canadian seafood industry where it
hurts most, the bottom line. We're closer than ever to reaching
these goals, and your commitment to ending the hunt will make
victory possible at last.

Thank you in
advance for being part of this massive grassroots mobilization
to save seals.









Sincerely,



Rebecca Aldworth
Director of Canadian Wildlife Issues
The Humane Society of the United
States
P.S.
The Canadian government has
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to mounting
international pressure with toothless regulations that do
nothing to make the hunt more "humane." We won't be fooled by a
government PR campaign. Demand that Canada end the commercial seal
hunt forever -- nothing less.













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