With Canada's annual slaughter of hundreds of thousands of baby seals underway, Sens. Carl Levin, D-Mich, and Susan Collins, R-Maine, introduced a resolution urging the Canadian government to end the commercial seal hunt.
"The ProtectSeals team is currently in Canada witnessing the largest slaughter of marine mammals in the world," said John W. Grandy, Ph.D., senior vice president of The Humane Society of the United States. "The images we have captured over the past few days are just heart wrenching. The once bright white ice floes are now stained with blood and littered with baby seal carcasses. We thank Senators Levin and Collins for their efforts to bring this inhumane slaughter to an end."
International opinion, as well as the opinion of the vast majority of Canadian citizens, is overwhelmingly in favor of ending the Canadian seal kill. Earlier this month, Russia announced a ban on slaughtering seals less than 1 year old.
The resolution, S. 84, also notes that more than one million seals have been killed during the past five years and that in the last five years, 95 percent of the seals killed were between 12 days and 12 weeks of age, many of them too young to have eaten their first solid meal or taken their first swim.
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