Slaughtering little baby seals is wrong

When no-one else will save them, PETA steps in to save their skins.

There's been some funny protests, depressing ones and even some pointless ones before - but this baby seal-saving one is no laughing matter.

Seemingly caused by the Canadian seal slaughter, which in and of itself is terrible, they're telling people in a way that hasn't been tried before - straight to their WoW account.

There were 270,000 seals killed in 2007, and a further 275,000 killed in 2008, so the PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) decided people should be stopping it - the rules of the so called hunt are brutal.

Just check out this excerpt from the site to see:

(1.1) No person shall use a club or hakapik to strike a seal older than one year unless the seal has been shot with a firearm.

(2) Every person who strikes a seal with a club or hakapik shall strike the seal on the top of the skull until it has been crushed and shall immediately palpate the cranium to confirm that the skull has been crushed.

Not exactly pretty. The battle to create awareness about the seals will occur on April 11th at 1pm EST, and they've even got a Facebook event page for it.

Check out PETA's blog for more info about how to help, and post here if you think this will make any difference.

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Sneaky Apr 9, 2009 12:38 PM	how do you know if its older than 1 year or not? i suppose you would ask the seal for its birth certificate, and if it insolently lies there staring at you, you are justified to beat it down without shooting it first..? what if its less than 1 year old, but when it reaches for a birth certificate, it looks like its going for a gun? can you blow it away, and then palpate its cranium, and call it self defense?
orcone Apr 9, 2009 12:59 PM	Seals are torpedo shaped, made of muscle and blubber and have razer sharp teeth. Why the FUCK haven't we wiped them out yet?
ahsoka Apr 9, 2009 1:55 PM	orcone: because they're cute
MagnumXY Apr 9, 2009 2:09 PM	this is so screwed up i would expect this in the us but canada? wtf.
TheFrunj Apr 9, 2009 2:30 PM	orcone, click on the image of the seal to see the bigger version. Let his cuteness wash over you, then say it again! -JR
stadl Apr 9, 2009 3:56 PM	I guess this is the problem with free-range seals. Better to cage them for farming purposes, then they can accuratly and quickly kill them.
Argotha Apr 9, 2009 5:06 PM	F* we humans are d*heads... No more to say than that...
LogicprObe Apr 10, 2009 7:10 AM	So Atomic is in league with those raving loonies called PETA? Interesting......
wowpaladin09@yahoo.com Apr 10, 2009 1:46 PM	I'd rather club those [url=http://wowgoldpig.com]wow gold[/url] spammers rather them cute seals. But I have to admit, if it weren't for those uber hot PETA models, I would be doing otherwise. Lol.
375_hh_mag Apr 10, 2009 4:06 PM	PETA are hypocrites. Instead of trying to look after animals they kill over 85% in their care. This is from an organisation that makes over 30 million dollars a year. As long as they are culled in a humane manner and the populations are kept in check, I see no problem with it.
kev12345 Apr 11, 2009 2:54 PM	PETA (People Eating Tasty Animals) Seals sounds like it would sizzel nicely on the bbq
Elfarch Apr 12, 2009 12:58 AM	But the Hunters want to save those lovely skins too! I'm not overly keen on the kill myself and would be happy to see irresponsible hunters lose their licence and be prosecuted. It's very easy to tell if a pup is 1yr or under/over. Yup they really should be doing a commercial use of the bodies as well.
Snotty-ASO- Apr 14, 2009 10:06 PM	Probably have to eat them at the bitter end anyway

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