March 30, 2008
Rebecca Aldworth, director of Animal Programs for Humane Society International, released the following statement in response to the Department of Fisheries and Oceans restricting journalists and animal welfare experts access to the commercial slaughter of baby seals.
"Yesterday we filmed sealers consistently violating the few regulations that exist to protect seals. It is no coincidence that today the Canadian government is doing everything in its power to stop us from documenting the slaughter. The DFO will only allow one of our helicopters to go into the hunt area, preventing more than a dozen journalists from witnessing the killing today. If the Canadian government's claims that this is a humane slaughter are true, then why are they working so hard to hide it?
"Not one sealer I saw yesterday was obeying the new conditions of their hunting licenses
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