The Canadian seal slaughter 2026

[Catherine]

Yes the Canadian seal slaughter is happening again this year. It is as brutal and barbaric as when I saw a video 60 years ago.
Now there is the complication of the failing sea ice. The seal population is in trouble. 

https://www.humaneworld.org/en/news/atla...-slaughter

I can't  imagine how anyone can kill a baby seal like that. They are totally helpless. There really isn't even a market for their fur anymore.
Many places have banned the products.

https://harpseals.org/

Who can look at those eyes and not be moved. 
This is one of those industries, like the dog meat farming, that once it is started they can't seem to end it.
I don't know what it will take to stop this slaughter. The sheer brutality tells us it is wrong.
Surely we want a different future for the people of Atlantic Canada. No one could want their children to grow up to this life.
It is a bloody shadow on the reputation of Canada.

STOP ALREADY! THIS HAS GONE ON LONG ENOUGH.

[LPC]

The dog meat trade has been largely stopped (although not totally). So why is it so difficult to stop the Canadian annual slaughter?

[Catherine]

That is a question I don't understand. I think most Canadians want it stopped.
It only happens in one small area of the country so it is hard to call attention to it.
There needs to be an alternative income for the people involved in the hunt.
The east coast fish stock is depleted and the hunters are also fishermen, so  the whole area
needs to find alternate forms of income. Subsidizing the seal hunt is not the answer.