Hot Topics: Seal Hunts

The images that show hunters clubbing helpless baby seals to death are heartbreaking. Seal hunters are notorious for not caring about the pain that they inflict with these cruel killings, but everyone who wears fur must also take responsibility.

The Canadian government has declared its plans to permit the slaughter of close to 1 million infant harp seals over three years. It will be the largest number of seals killed by hunters in at least half a century. The sealing industry claims that it is killing more seals because of an increase in demand for all fur.

Please be assured that PETA's gloves are off and that we're determined to quash the much-touted fur "comeback" and put fur clothing in its proper place—the annals of history—as a shameful blight on the fashion industry.

Fur-industry insiders may be telling the media that their sales have never been better, but in their reports to one another, they complain of sluggish sales. Read their remarks.

PETA will continue adding nails to the fur industry's coffin with headline-grabbing campaigns that spotlight the gruesome facts behind fur. We've had great success in attracting the media's attention through celebrity advertisements (such as our ads featuring Oscar-winning actor Charlize Theron), colorful protests, and graphic ads and exposés. We are confident that fur sales will fall as more and more people learn about how horribly animals suffer in this cruel industry.

In the meantime, here are some easy things that you can do to help fur-bearing animals:

• Don't buy or wear any fur.
• Contact your senators and ask them to cosponsor Carl Levin's (D-MI) Senate Resolution 33 condemning Canada's seal hunt.
• Write or call your Canadian Embassy (contact info for the Canadian Embassy in the United States is below) to ask that it call for a halt to the commercial seal hunt immediately:
  
  The Honorable Frank McKenna
  Ambassador-Designate to the United States of America
  501 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W.
  Washington, DC 20001
  202-682-7678
  canada@canadianembassy.org

To learn more about PETA's vital efforts to help seals and other animals killed for their fur—and to find out what you can do to help these animals—please visit FurIsDead.com.