Canada's cruel slaughter set for late March

I just read this in my email. ANyone know more information?

Like I said in another post....

Humans will have a heavy price to pay one day for what we do

Just as an addition for those who are not aware - the Canadian product "Arctic Vigor", sold as a pet supplement, is made from seal oil.

Sneaky how they say it's not fish oil but just some marine species.

Is this really necessary up there? I mean is it like overpopulation of deer in some parts of the States? Is there no regulation of the hunt? To compare again to deer or fish even, there is a size limit and number allowed to catch or kill.

Sounds kind of like slaughter houses.

http://www.humanesociety.com/newsrel/newsrel.asp?thisrel=14032005&page=1

http://www.hsus.org/marine_mammals/protect_seals/

http://www.cbc.ca/nl/story/nf-seals-boycott-050405.html

This has gone on for so many years, and sadly, it won't stop. I hate it. If they need to hunt, then please have them do it more humanely !

It's reported these designers use seal fur or skin in their collections.

Gucci
685 Fifth Ave.
New York, NY 10022
212-750-5220
[email protected]

Versace
Donatella Versace
Versace S.P.A. Headquarters
Via Manzoni, 38
Milan ITALY 20121
Phone: 39 02 76 09 31
Fax: 39 02 76 00 41 22

Prada World Headquarters
Prada S.P.A.
Via Andrea Maffei, 2
20154 Milan, Italy
Phone: 39 02 54 67 01

Prada U.S.
Katherine Ross, V.P. of Communications
610 W. 52nd St.
New York, NY 10019
Phone: 212 307 9300

Birger Christensen
3tergade 38
DK-1100 Copenhagen K Denmark
Phone: 45 33 11 55 55
Fax: 45 33 93 21 35
Email: [email protected]

The Odette Leblanc Collection
022 de l'% Rd., Pointe-aux-Loups
¬es de la madeleine PQ. G4T 8B1 Canada
Phone: 418-969-9385
Email: [email protected]

Petit Nord OU
Pikk Tn. 67-1
10133 Tallinn
Estonia
Phone: 011 + 372 372 6411211
Fax: 011 + 372 6411212
Email: Use the form at http://www.base-1.com/petit.html

Annika Heinadottir
Oehlenschlaegersgade 30
Copenhagen, Denmark
Phone: 45 26192611
Email: [email protected]

Marni
Italy Headquarters
Via Spiga 50
Milan 20121 Italy
Phone: 39-02-7631-7327
Fax: 39-02-7631-7335
Email: [email protected]
Marni's Flagship Store in New York
161 Mercer Street
New York, NY 10012
Phone: 212-343-3912


Also these seafoods come from Canada, "pledge not to buy Canadian seafood products such as snow crab, cod, scallops, and shrimp until Canada ends its commercial seal hunt for good."
You can sign a pledge here, https://community.hsus.org/campaign/protectseals

Other restaurants and etc. that need to be asked to limit or eliminate Canadian seafood, to help protect ther seals.


Red Lobster
Clarence Otis, Jr., CEO of The Darden Group and George Williams, Vice President for Government and Environmental Relations for Red Lobster Restaurants
The Darden Group
5900 Lake Ellenor Drive
Orlando, FL 32809
Corporate headquarter phone number: 407-245-4000
Guest relations hotline: 800-LOBSTER (1-800-562-7837)
Send your emails via the Red Lobster website.

Joe's Crab Shack (owned by Landry Seafood Restaurants, which also owns Chart House, Crab House, Landry's Seafood House, Charley's Crab, Rainforest Cafe and Saltgrass Steak House)
Tilman J. Fertitta, Chairman, President and CEO
Landry's Restaurants, Inc.
1510 W. Loop south
Houston, TX 77027
713-850-1010
Send comments via this web page.

Long John Silver's (owned by Yum! Brands Inc., which also owns Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, Kentucky Fried Chicken, and A&W All-American Food Restaurants)
David C. Novak, President and CEO
Yum! Brands
1441 Gardiner Lane
Louisville, KY 40213
502-874-8300
Send comments via this web page.

McCormick & Schmick's
Douglas Schmick, Co-Founder and President
Saed Mohseni, CEO
McCormick & Schmick's Seafood Restaurants
720 SW Washington St.
Portland, OR 97205
503-226-3440
Fax: 503-228-5074

Captain D's Seafood
Ron Powell, Chairman of the Board
Ronald E. Walker, President and COO
Captain D's Seafood
1717 Elm Hill Pike, Suite A-1
Nashville, TN 37210
615-391-5461
Fax: 615-231-2309
Email: [email protected]

Outback Steakhouse Inc.
Chris T. Sullivan, Chairman and CEO
Outback Steakhouse
2220 North West Shore Blvd., Suite 500
Tampa, FL 33607
813-2862247
Email: Use form on this page.

Trader Joe's Company
Dan Bane, Chairman and CEO
Trader Joe's
800 South Shamrock Avenue
Monrovia, CA 91016
626-599-3700

Ahold USA (Dutch-based company that owns Stop & Shop, Giant Food Stores, Tops Markets, BI-LO, Peapod, and Bruno's Supermarkets as well as the second largest food service distributor in the United States, Foodservice)
Bill Grize, President and CEO
Ahold USA Retail Operations
1385 Hancock Street
Quincy Center Plaza
Quincy, MA 02169
781-380-8000 or 703-961-6000
Email: Use form at this page.

Safeway
Steven A. Burd, Chairman, President, and CEO
Safeway Corporate Headquarters
5918 Stoneridge Mall Road
Pleasanton, CA 94588-3229
877-723-3929 or 1-877-505-4040
Email: Use "contact us" link at the bottom of this page.

Costco Wholesale Corporation (incorporating both Costco and Price Club)
Jeffrey Brotman, Chairman
James Sinegal, President
Costco Wholesale Corporation
999 Lake Drive
Issaquah, WA 98027
425-313-8103 or 800-774-2678
Send comments via this web page.

Kroger Company
Joseph A. Pichler, Chairman
David Dillon, CEO
Kroger HQ
1014 Vine Street
Cincinnati, OH 45202
513-762-4000 or 1-866-221-4141
Send comments via this web page.

Albertsons Inc. (The second largest food-drug retailer in the United States, owns stores such as Jewel-Osco, Acme Markets, and Shaws)
Lawrence R. Johnston, Chairman, President and CEO
Albertsons HQ
250 Parkcenter Blvd.
Boise, ID 83726
888-746-7252 or 877-932-7948
Send comments via this web page.

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
702 SW 8th St.
Benton, AR 72716
479-273-4000
Fax: 479-273-4053
Email: Use contact form on this page.

As bad as I sometimes feel for the baby seals...well im from this horrible east coast and well...lets put it this way. 8 hours by plane away from the real world, all my family has and always will live off the fish. They depend on cod to survive, its the only source of income and the only jobs available are in the summer. So what happens when the seal poplulation goes up 4 times in size and start taking down the fish number?? well its okay to put the deer limit up and start killing fawns and younger deer when there population goes up?? my uncle is one of the few (no they do not go out and kill 30000 seals at a time) but have you ever seen 45 000 seals in one place? I have...and it makes you think, thats a heck of a lot of fish there eating, and thats alot of competition to deal with, not to mention that have the support of the government and fish and game officers to 'bash the baby seals over the head' and they are NOT SKINNED ALIVE!!! do you pluck chickens alive?? when there are to many of one species it has to be dealt with. its the balance of the ecosystem. so pretty much what Im saying, to many seals, problem will be dealt with. no one writes emails and crys about the poor little fawn that got shot in the bushes and eaten for christmas dinner. no one whines about the amounts of wild turkeys and geese shot and killed every year? And im confused why not eating lobster will help the baby seals??

oh and they usually leave the young ones alone and go for the males by the way....and yes they do sell them for profit, id like to see you all go spend a day there and see how life is like. No mcdonalds or subway, some places don't even have cars, they live right beside the ocean and its not like they can go out and get a job in an insurance company or something similair.

OMG! That is horrible!

YAY!! Someone who has commone sense!

Now I will say this HSUS is little more than a political group that is paying money to politicians and certain companies to publish and spread mis-information. Clubbing a seal isnt exactly allowed and those who do club seals are the ones that are giving the rest of the canadian fishermen a bad name. Sorry folks but all it takes is just one bad apple and one money hungry politician to blow things out of proportion.

And the numbers they publish are unreasonably high. Think about what you read, do your homework, get the correct information.

And as for snow-crabs and king-crabs, the fisherman that fish for crab are literally putting their lives on the line to put food on the table for their families. They work 18 to 24 hours straight to bring in what they hope will be a good catch. They work in cold-wet conditions risking hypothermia, and in some cases they work while battling the flu or even pnuemonia that they have developed while working. They risk being thrown overboarding into freezing waters- if not rescued within 5 minutes, they are given a death sentence, because the water is so cold they go unconscious almost immediately. There is no medical doctor onboard. For many people in fishing communities, this is their livilihood, this is their means of survival. If you take this away from them, you have taken away their ability to provide for their families.

HSUS does have good intentions but they are NOT the Humane Society. They are more worried about the killing of seals in Canada, when there are people here who beat their dogs with baseball bats daily.

Think about it.

Dix

Here, here. Put me on the top o the food chain fish eatin' list.
Like any environmental region, humans have killed or taken out the apex predator from the mix. Without whales and large sharks to thin herds of seals and other mamals, they need thinning another way to maintain a balance.

As RoxyBoxer stated, bleeding heart groups will always exist and have the right to feel the way they want but state both sides of a story clearly.
Have we learned nothing from PEDA's rantings only to be caught with their pants down.

Save the Whale,...Collect the whole set!!

I don't live in that area but I do know that there is no difference between killing seals and killing any other animal. I just hope that all animals that 'have' to be killed are done so humanely. I know I can't stop it but I avoid contributing to the market too.

While I don't really agree with the seal hunt, and think it needs some serious re-evaluation about the way it's carried out, it DOES have a purpose, and will not ever go away completley.

I do not see how boycotting Canadian seafood and seriously crippling an already faltering industry is going to help anything. I consider Canadian fishermen to be some of the hardest working people in this country, and they already have practically nothing to show for it. The fish populations are dangerously depleted as it is, making these men (and women) work their bones to survive. Why make them suffer more?

Actually they use guns, were not cavemen, im not even sure how 'clubbing' came about inm these ages. I worked in a fish factory this summer and after 12 hours in feezing cold water cleaning snow crab...well im sure if there were others ways of income we'de be all for it. hey I have an idea lets boycott beef cause its from cows raised all there lives to die----sarcasm) thanks Dixie and the rest of you for having some common sense

Couldn't of said it better.

I love how people find a million ways to justify killing other creatures. Survival, Culture, Hunger etc... when in the end it usually about greed.

Not to put myself on the front lines of being pro-seal bashing, but the HSUS is a nightmare organization and their involvement makes me think this issue is more complicated than greedy bastards v. baby marine mammals.