Protesters Get Fired Up at Olympic Torch-Lighting

Published by PETA.

The 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver are four months away, but tomorrow the torch will be lit in an elaborate ceremony in Olympia, Greece. While the torch-lightings for the past few Winter Olympics have been disrupted by weather, it wasn’t the clouds that had officials worried at today’s final rehearsal

 

Olympic Torch

 

It was PETA’s “seal” and demonstrators who kept everyone on their toes.

As long as Canada, the host of the 2010 Winter Games, continues to allow sealers to bash in the heads of helpless baby seals, we’ll continue to expose its shameful cruelty, wherever we can.

Written by Karin Bennett

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