Seal Hunt

Ke$ha, Iggy Pop Team Up With PETA

The Huffington Post | Posted 06.14.2011

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Music stars Ke$ha and Iggy Pop are teaming up, but not to make some new tunes. The duo have joined with PETA to speak out in protest of Canada's annu...

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Seal Hunting Game Gets Denied By Apple, Designer Calls Foul (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

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Is virtual seal hunting offensive? According to Apple, it is. The company rejected an iPhone game designed by a Canadian software engineer, where the ...

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Canadian Parliament Will Serve Seal Meat At Lunch

AP | CHARMAINE NORONHA | Posted 05.25.2011

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TORONTO — The Canadian Parliament's restaurant will serve seal meat this week in support of hunters battling a European Union ban on seal produc...

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Pam Anderson Launches Anti-Seal Hunt Campaign

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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TORONTO — Former "Baywatch" star Pamela Anderson wants to save the seals from the annual hunt on Canada's East Coast. The Canadian-born actress...

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Canada's Disgusting Seal Hunt Should Be Outlawed

Diane Francis | Posted 05.25.2011

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Diane Francis

Canadian politicians have been in capable of ending this primitive practice - the largest killing of marine mammals in the world - even as damage to the country's reputation grows.

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Namibia Seal Hunt Filmers, Jim Wickens And Bart Smithers, Convicted Of Trespassing

AP | MICHELLE THERIAULT | Posted 05.25.2011

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JOHANNESBURG — Two foreign journalists who were arrested in Namibia while filming the clubbing of seals were convicted Friday of entering a prot...

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Canadian Governor General Eats Raw Seal Heart In Support Of Hunters

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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RANKIN INLET, Nunavut — Canada's governor general ate a slaughtered seal's raw heart in a show of support to the country's seal hunters, a displ...

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EU Bans Seal Imports, Takes Aim At Canada's Seal Hunt

AP | CONSTANT BRAND | Posted 05.25.2011

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STRASBOURG, France — The European Parliament voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to ban imports of seal products, including fur coats and even some ome...

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Tax Day In The US, Baby Seal Death Day In Canada

washingtonpost.com | Kathleen Parker | Posted 05.25.2011

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My hakapik -- a phrase I never expected to utter -- has a 42-inch long handle with a combo hammerhead/spike on the end. The hammer portion is used, th...

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Obama: Seal Hunt "Inhumane," An "Outrage"

The Toronto Star | Posted 05.25.2011

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Campaigners leading a global effort against the Canadian seal hunt believe they have stumbled across a secret weapon that could bring Ottawa to heel -...

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Obama Calls Canadian Seal Hunt "Inhumane"

thestar.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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"As you know, Canada annually opens its eastern waters to commercial seal hunting. The United States and European Union have been unified in their opp...

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Canada's Annual Seal Hunt Gets Under Way (GRAPHIC VIDEO)

The Guardian | Posted 05.25.2011

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The International Fund for Animal Welfare released this video showing what it says is hunters killing seals in Canada's annual commercial seal hunt...

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Canada Seal Hunt Begins Amid Controversy

AP | ROB GILLIES | Posted 05.25.2011

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TORONTO — Canada's annual seal hunt started Monday, under pressure from a possible European Union ban on imported seal products. The world's la...

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Herd on the Hill

Michael Markarian | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael Markarian

Passage of this modest, but crucial, ballot measure in California will surely change the calculus for farm animals elsewhere by demonstrating that Americans have no tolerance for gratuitous cruelty.

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