Critter News

MAY 5, 2009

From the press release: Euro-MPs have voted overwhelmingly for a total ban on the trade in seal products across Europe. A resolution at the end of a three-year campaign, triggered by a public outcry at the annual seal culls in Canada and Norway, condemned the slaughter of seals as "inherently inhumane".

Seals

Critter News

AUGUST 18, 2009

He's doing it to show his opposition to the EU's ban on seal products. Tags: canada europe seals hunting. Canada plans on appealing to the WTO. Stay classy Harper!

Seals

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APRIL 29, 2010

Tags: canada seal hunt Stupid entertainment seals. One who can't understand what all the fuss is about. It's just like all that clubbing you usually see in cartoons. Thanks to Apple for not accepting this game onto their app store.

Seals

Critter News

JANUARY 5, 2009

Federal Fisheries Minister Gail Shea said Monday that Canadian officials will meet with EU politicians in a bid to convince them that Canada's commercial seal hunt is humane and should be exempt from a proposed seal import ban.A Tags: canada europe seal hunters seals hunting.

Seals

Critter News

MARCH 3, 2009

Tags: canada greenland europe seal hunters seals. Nordic EU countries such as Denmark, Sweden and Finland have opposed such a ban, and EU legal experts say it could violate world trade rules. Canada and Greenland have warned the EU that they could challenge such a ban before the World Trade Organization.

Seals

Critter News

APRIL 5, 2009

If Europe bans seal products, Canada may go to the WTO (World Trade Organization) and appeal. Tags: canada europe trade seals.

Seals

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JANUARY 22, 2009

They are testifying with Canada against an EU ban on seal products. Tags: canada greenland europe seal hunters seals. Oh, yeah, I forgot about Greenland. Both claim that a ban would be devastating. They spoke before a hearing on the proposed ban. I'm not sure it will pass though.

Seals

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JANUARY 2, 2009

"No person shall use a club or a hakapik to strike a seal older than one year unless the seal has been shot with a firearm," states one of the new rules, posted Saturday in a government publication but not on the Department of Fisheries and Oceans website. The sealers must now feel the seal's cranium to make sure it is broken.

Seals

Critter News

FEBRUARY 6, 2010

The second half of the article deals with their attempts at pushing that damn seal hunt. Tags: canada seal hunters Stupid seals. Is it THAT much a part of its economy? Canada needs to stop exploiting its natural resources and move into a more sophisticated type of economy.

Seals

Critter News

JUNE 16, 2009

PETA has launched a spoof site for the Vancouver Olympic Games over seal hunting. I hate the seal slaughter. Seal hunting is just plain wrong. Warning, they have video of seal clubbing (and it starts automatically when you go to the site). Tags: PETA. I think it's barbaric and should be ended.

PETA

Critter News

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals says Vancouver's Olympic organizers have the clout to convince the Canadian government to end the controversial seal hunt on the East Coast. The group will launch a new campaign on Wednesday featuring the 2010 Inukshuk logo clubbing a seal, with the five Olympic rings dripping blood.

Seals

Critter News

JANUARY 1, 2010

Some of the damage was caused by humans who shot, clubbed or threw so-called seal bombs at the mammals. The explosives are tossed into the water to scare away seals from fishing areas. Even though it has been a record year for sick harbor seals, sea lions and elephant seals, experts say it could get much worse.

Seals

Critter News

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

He refused to eat the seal meat that the local Inuit community offered to the meeting participants, instead eating Arctic char. They're basically making participants choose between eating seal meat or pissing off the Inuits and risk being called racists. Tags: canada UK europe seal hunt inuit seals G7.

Seals

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MARCH 22, 2009

The Canadian government has authorized the killing of 280,000 harp seals. Tags: canada barbarism seals. I won't even bother asking the Canadians to stop this barbaric practice. The only way it will end is if the market for this product in Europe dries up. The US already has such a ban in place.

Seals

Critter News

OCTOBER 17, 2008

A judge has found five animal-rights activists not guilty of getting too close to seal hunters during the 2006 hunt off Canada's east coast. The five were charged with coming within 10 metres of seal hunters on March 26, 2006 while filming the annual slaughter in the Gulf of St. Tags: seal hunters humane society.

Seals

4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

PurinaCare pet health insurance is also offered as a direct benefit to select employees and associations nationwide and its high-deductible policies have earned the AAHA Seal of Acceptance. Tags: guest post pet care. For more information about PurinaCare pet health insurance, call 877-8-PURINA or visit www.purinacare.com.

Pets

Critter News

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

com see PETA's seal hunt site. Tags: canada seal hunt seals olympics. Go to OlympicShame2010.com

PETA

Critter News

JANUARY 30, 2010

A PETA anti seal hunt activist was hit in the face with a pie in Newfoundland. In other news, PETA received more publicity for their anti seal hunting campaign when one of their protesters was hit in the face with a pie. That's good, because I really hate Canada's odious seal hunt. Tags: seal hunters PETA.

PETA

Critter News

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

She's referring to the pie thrown in the face of Fisheries Minister Gail Shea by a PETA member protesting the Canadian seal hunt. Tags: canada animal enterprise terrorism act seals PETA. It's pretty scary that a Liberal MP would actually question whether a pie in the face is terrorism.

PETA

Critter News

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Both groups will be protesting the seal hunt using the Olympic torch ceremony as the backdrop. Crowds gathering across Canada to watch the Olympic torch pass through their towns will also be greeted by a 12-meter-tall baby "seal." Tags: IFAW PETA.

IFAW

Critter News

JANUARY 14, 2010

Tags: canada. "That being said, there are many other markets out there. That's what we're doing in China. We're trying to expand on the market that's here." Maybe they can start trading them for bear gall bladders and tiger parts.

Canada

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

The Islands hold important populations of Monk Seals as well as all the world’s Laysan Ducks and Laysan Finches. Tags: Asides , tsunami • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! Once you’re prepared, check out this remarkable post and gallery by Pete at Midway.

2011

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MAY 20, 2010

These cement linings were basically the well's seal. Tags: oil drilling British Petroleum 2010 oil spill pollution. This article talks about how BP skipped some testing of cement linings hours before the explosion occured. How did this decision contribute to the disaster?

Seals

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FEBRUARY 14, 2010

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2009

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FEBRUARY 7, 2010

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The Humane Society

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JANUARY 31, 2010

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Tail Docking

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DECEMBER 28, 2009

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Michael Vick

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JULY 24, 2009

One of the worst pictures I've ever seen is of a seal with its stomach cut open and a mess of plastic inside. Tags: oceans marine life environment plastic. A lot of this stuff just gets swept into storm drains, rivers, lakes, streams, the oceans, etc. And who ingests them? Marine life.

Marine Life

Critter News

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Sadie May said the men cut a path through the sludgy ice in Newfoundland's Seal Cove harbor with their 18-foot trawler Thursday night, freeing the dolphins from an oval-shaped hole in the ice they had been swimming in for days. Tags: canada dolphin newfoundland animal rescue.

Dolphins

4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 20, 2010

That sealed the deal because it made him laugh (and burping contests were a regular occurrence in our house too). Tags: giveaways. After all, the little puppy kept leaving “lakes and logs&# that my dad was unfortunate to find with his bare feet. It was obvious the dog fit in perfectly and had to stay. Now it’s your turn!

Pets

4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Tags: reviews dog dog bed nanotechnology pet pet product pets review. Baby gives the Dog Gone Smart pet bed 4 paws up for being comfy, and for being easy to keep clean! Thank you for sending this great product our way to try out. Dog Gone Smart Beds originally appeared on 4 The Love of Animals on October 28, 2009.

Dogs

Critter News

APRIL 21, 2009

WHO could defend the slaughter of 300,000 harp, hooded and grey seals by hook-wielding hunters out to make a quick buck from the seals' pelts? The increasingly shrill condemnation of Canada's seal cull is based on a view of humans as bloodthirsty destroyers of nature. Tags: seal hunters idiocy. And so it goes.

Seals

Critter News

JULY 26, 2009

The group is called Seal Sitters and they protect baby seals who have been left on the each while their moms fish. Tags: seattle animal rescue marine life seals. It's a nice story to offset the cruelty of the dead baby tiger in Hanoi.

Seattle

Critter News

MARCH 26, 2010

Canadian seals are being screwed by an exceptionally warm winter and lack of ice. Tags: climate canada seal hunt seals. I've been hearing about this from the Humane Society, but haven't posted about it yet. They are dying and starving. And that's not even mentioning the hunters that are after them.

Seals

Animal Person

MAY 11, 2009

Here's the set-up: The European Parliament endorsed a ban on seal products. But if they continue to just take a fundamentalist position against people who live in the same ecosystem as the seals, then they'll never achieve an end to this activity, because these people rely on this for their living."

Foie Gras

Critter News

JANUARY 10, 2010

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Primates

Animal Person

MAY 17, 2009

Like clubbing a seal to death? Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Gray Matters. Let's deconstruct the concept: Do you think that people who have spent their lives harming animals by eating them, just like I did and much of my family still does, deserve a second chance? Is fighting and killing dogs the same thing?

Foie Gras