Critter News
SEPTEMBER 12, 2011
But the seal industry doesn't care. Despite that, a Quebec-based seal fur company has begun championing Pibarot's hypothesis, seeing the research as a buoy for Canada's beleaguered seal harvest. They'll exploit anything to try to save their barbaric trade and, if they can use guilt, even better.
Critter News
DECEMBER 21, 2011
Russia and two of its neighbours have informed the World Trade Organization that they are banning the import and export of harp seal pelts – a move that animal-rights activists are celebrating as the death knell of Canada’s commercial seal industry. Russia has been the biggest market for the Canadian seal fur industry.
Animal Person
MAY 11, 2009
But Foot doesn't buy it and asks--again-- Yet over the long history of animal rights activism in Canada, it's hard to find evidence that the larger aims of such protests are ever achieved. So it would seem that the mission was accomplished, and the means resulted in the intended ends.
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