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PETA Celebrates EU Ban on Seal Products
PETA (People For the Ethical Treatment of Animals) has applauded the European Union decision on May 5th to ban imports of all seal products.
Associated Press has published details about the bill including a description of the annual seal hunt in Canada as "inherently inhumane".
The ban will apply to all products and processed goods derived from seals including their skins, which are used to make fur coats, meat, oil blubber, organs and omega 3 pills.
Canada’s East Coast seal hunt is the largest of its kind in the world, killing an average of 300,000 harp seals annually.
The multi million dollar industry has consistently come under fire from animal rights groups such as PETA who refer to the killing of seals as a bloody seal slaughter.
The Canadian Trade Minister, Stockwell Day, refutes the claim and will challenge the ban at the World Trade Organization, saying the current hunt is well managed and sustainable.
The new EU rule will offer some exemptions to Inuit communities from Canada and Greenland to continue their traditional hunts, but it refuses to offer any access to the trading of their pelts on a large scale in Europe.
PETA has a collective giving fund at Tides Canada, and you can support their work in pushing for a ban on the Canadian seal hunt by giving to this fund.
