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Ke$ha joins PETA's anti-seal hunt campaign
Pop singer stars in new ad sporting the tagline 'Canada's Club Scene Sucks.'
Fri, Apr 15 2011 at 12:59 PM
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Pop sensation Ke$ha (whose name I hate typing), has joined other celebrities like Ellen DeGeneres and Iggy Pop in supporting PETA's campaign to end the Canadian seal hunt.
"Canada's nightlife rules," the ad reads, "but clubbing seals is cruel and waste millions of tax dollars."
Animal rights organizations have been ramping up protests and media campaigns in the wake of the Canadian government's decision earlier this year to up the kill quota to 468,200 of harp, grey and hooded seals. Those numbers are the highest set since the Canadian government introduced quota management in 1971.
"Seal hunting is one of the most atrocious and inhumane acts against animals allowed by any government," DeGeneres recently wrote on her website. "Canada is allowing the slaughter of a record number of seals in their 2011 hunting season, which is going on right now. The seals are often younger than 3 months old."
Polling shows that a large majority of Canadians now oppose the seal hunt, which costs the nation $2.3 million annually. Check out Ke$ha's full ad below.
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Now, I can understand people killing the seals for food and to survive, but what these people are doing is just sick. They are trying to kill off as many seals as they can just for a prize. It is disgusting.
And thank you Ke$ha for actually being aware. She has fame and fortune but she still cares.
That doesn't make it any better. You don't have to eat seal meat, there's plenty of different types of meat from domesticated animals as it is. You also don't actually need their fur (it's not the stone age we're living in) or their hides.
If I can't eat them, or make rugs out of them, I guess they will just go to waste.
Live in peace = go to waste?
By this logic, I guess that also accounts to you then.
he is talking about the ones they kill
Seal meat is very tasty, especially the one's that are 3 months and younger, very tender. This is another kind of white meat, full of nutrients. I use the hides to make area rugs, nothing goes to waste.
That doesn't make it any better. You don't have to eat seal meat, there's plenty of different types of meat from domesticated animals as it is. You also don't actually need their fur (it's not the stone age we're living in) or their hides.