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August 31, 2006 at 11:45 am

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K_trina

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Dear Katrina,
Despite continued international outcry and documentation of its cruelty, the commercial seal hunt in Canada killed more than 330,000 seals this year. Ninety-five percent of the seals beaten or shot were under three months old. And it will happen all over again in just six months.
You might wonder what you can do in the UK to stop a hunt in Newfoundland, Canada that is supported (and indirectly subsidise) by Canada’s own government. But the banning of seal products in Europe would be a significant step towards ending the cruelty.
Please help us get as many signatures as possible on a petition circulating in the European Parliament to ban the import of seal products into Europe . IFAW has written to all Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) to ask them to sign the Written Declaration to ban seal products. We need more than half of them to sign by 6th September for this critical step to move forward. We now have over 290 signatures and we urgently need about 80 more MEPs to sign.
[FONT=Verdana, Helvetica]The truth about the seal hunt will break your heart[/FONT]
Seals are routinely clubbed or shot and left to suffer on the ice, then dragged over the sides of boats with sharpened metal hooks. Few sealers are observed checking to see if a seal is still alive before they skin it.
This isn’t killing for food or survival, it’s killing for fashion. Over 98% of the value of the hunt is in the fur, a non-essential luxury product no one really needs. Most of the harp seal carcasses (including the meat) are simply abandoned to rot on the ice.
More than a million harp seals have been killed over the past three years. Millions of Canadians oppose the commercial seal hunt. This cannot be allowed to go on.
As well as helping to stop the trade in seal products, this Written Declaration will send a strong and clear message to Canada and other seal-hunting nations that the UK wants no part in this cruel and unnecessary hunt.
367 MEPs must sign the declaration before 6 September 2006 for this to pass, so please act now.
Thank you for speaking out to protect the seals.

Thanks again for your ongoing support,

Fred O’Regan
President and CEO
P.S. You can also help with a contribution

Please sign it! Respect.

http://www.advocacyonline.net/eactivist/user/userC.jsp?11221&EXAMIN=1
August 31, 2006 at 12:03 pm

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So not a good look

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All done,Emails sent to all westcountry MPs:love:
August 31, 2006 at 12:23 pm

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K_trina

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Respect:love:
August 31, 2006 at 12:28 pm

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So not a good look

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No problem,I quite like seals now,my daughter got to feed one and stroke it and that at a local zoo last week,they seem very intelligent animals.
August 31, 2006 at 12:38 pm

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General Lighting

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I’ve signed it – although the email to the UKIP MEPs bounced

I think many politicians have set their computers to reject mass mailing campaigns from pressure groups these days (and they can always ignore letters same as any other citizen can).

In the case of MEPs the UKIP are opposed to Europe and openly admit they are only taking their seats for a negative reason; to find things to complain about and to put the case that Britain should pull out of “Social Europe” and only have commercial trade with Europe…
September 1, 2006 at 2:22 pm

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K_trina

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GoodDoG wrote:

No problem,I quite like seals now,my daughter got to feed one and stroke it and that at a local zoo last week,they seem very intelligent animals.

They’re gorgeous aren’t they!:love: ! But that’s not why I think signing this is important, it’s pure evil, to kill any sort of animal/mamal in such inhumaine ways just for fashion.
September 1, 2006 at 2:29 pm

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General Lighting

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K_trina wrote:

They’re gorgeous aren’t they!:love: ! But that’s not why I think signing this is important, it’s pure evil, to kill any sort of animal/mamal in such inhumaine ways just for fashion.

a strange coincidence – I had to go to the dentist this morning; and fixed to the ceiling (to look at whilst you are in the chair) was a large picture of a baby Canadian seal.

I wonder whether the dentist is a supporter of the campaign? (wasn’t really up to asking him though as he had jammed a particularly uncomfortable piece of plastic into my gob so he could take x-rays of my teeth).
September 19, 2006 at 11:33 am

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So not a good look

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I got a letter from my conservative MP this am,quite surprised that it would be the Conservatives to get back to me to be honest,but anyway heres what he says:-

Thank you for your email with regard to written declaration 38 on banning products in the EU.
I do sympathise with your views on what is frankly not a nice business and it would be easy to condemn this seemingly barbaric process of seal hunting.In similar fashion,as a life long vegetarian,I have much sympathy for the treatment endured by animals in slaughter houses.
However,I am Not convinced that this is the whole picture and I can see two sides of the argument.A ban on seal products in the EU could seriously compromise the fragile and tiny economy of the traditional inuit seal hunters who rely on seling hides as thier only source of income.Although Inuit hunters are excluded from the proposed ban in the declaration,I am persuaded that a ban would effectively kill off the market in the EU for all seal products and have a potentially devastating consequences on thier livlihoods.
I have gathered together briefing material from both perspectives and have taken your views into consideration before deciding whether to sign the declaration.However,I remain unpersuaded and the volume of presure lobbying in this instance has proved counter productive so I will not be signing this declaration.
Nevertheless,not withstanding this,you will be pleased to hear that a large number of my coleagues have signed the declaration and the required nuber of signatures have been secured.The declaration will now be forwarded to the institutions named theirin together with the names of the signatories.it will be included in the minutes of the sitting at which it was announced and publication in the minutes closes the procedure.
I should explain that written declarations are political statements,a show of the will of the European parliament and as such,even if one recieves the neccesary number of signatures,it is not legally binding and does not automatically mean that action will be taken.

Giles Chichester MP

phew that took some typeing I can tell you! (He didnt put that:laugh_at:)
September 19, 2006 at 11:56 am

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BioTech

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GoodDoG wrote:

phew that took some typeing I can tell you! (He didnt put that:laugh_at:)

Unfortunately. :laugh_at:

I understand what he is saying but surely if he belives it to be a barbaric practice then the economy of a small group is irrelevant however harsh that might sound. I may be being a little naive here but surely a small cash injection could set them up with a different form of trade/service?
September 19, 2006 at 12:11 pm

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General Lighting

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BioTech wrote:

Unfortunately. :laugh_at:

I understand what he is saying but surely if he belives it to be a barbaric practice then the economy of a small group is irrelevant however harsh that might sound. I may be being a little naive here but surely a small cash injection could set them up with a different form of trade/service?

he’s probably a traditionalist Tory who believes the market alone should regulate these sort of trades, that people have an individual right to buy fur products and does not believe in state intervention.

He has also pointed out (quite openly) he does not accept pressure lobbying or activism (this is a mindset common to a lot British people, particularly those already in a position of power!)

His stance is also similar to that of the UKIP who only take up seats in Brussels to monitor and perhaps disrupt operations, with the eventual desire to see the social part of the EU disappear altogether.
September 19, 2006 at 12:25 pm

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BioTech

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General Lighting wrote:

He has also pointed out (quite openly) he does not accept pressure lobbying or activism (this is a mindset common to a lot British people, particularly those already in a position of power!)

Yes it seems as if his response was quite childish infact: “If you all make too much fuss I’m going to do the complete opposite to spite you all regardless of my own opinion or the sheer number of people who object….. ner ner na nerr nerr! 😛 “
September 19, 2006 at 12:28 pm

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So not a good look

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BioTech wrote:

I’m going to do the complete opposite to spite you all regardless of my own opinion or the sheer number of people who object….. ner ner na nerr nerr! 😛 “

:laugh_at::laugh_at::laugh_at::laugh_at:
September 19, 2006 at 12:42 pm

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General Lighting

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reminds me rather of the “Tory Boy” character from the Harry Enfield programme…
September 19, 2006 at 3:43 pm

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kai

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