Critter News

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

The Animal Welfare Institute thinks these new rules could be a blow to the horse slaughter industry, but only if actually implemented. Tags: canada meat horse slaughter Slaughterhouse.

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Critter News

APRIL 25, 2010

I don't support the slaughter of any animal, but if an animal will die anyway, don't we want the best possible conditions? Tags: canada gordon ramsey mexico horse slaughter. I understand what animal activists are trying to accomplish, but every time I read one of these stories, I wonder if this ban was the right thing.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 17, 2008

A judge has found five animal-rights activists not guilty of getting too close to seal hunters during the 2006 hunt off Canada's east coast. The five were charged with coming within 10 metres of seal hunters on March 26, 2006 while filming the annual slaughter in the Gulf of St. Tags: seal hunters humane society.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Crowds gathering across Canada to watch the Olympic torch pass through their towns will also be greeted by a 12-meter-tall baby "seal." Tags: IFAW PETA. PETA and the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) are holding a joint news conference this week, and I would like to offer you an exclusive advance scoop on it.

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Critter News

JUNE 16, 2009

I hate the seal slaughter. I like Canada. I'm an American, but I grew up seeing Noltan Nash, the Beachcombers and Hockey Night in Canada on the TV. Tags: PETA. I criticize PETA a lot, but in this case I think they are right on the money. I think it's barbaric and should be ended. Seal hunting is just plain wrong.

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Critter News

MAY 5, 2009

A resolution at the end of a three-year campaign, triggered by a public outcry at the annual seal culls in Canada and Norway, condemned the slaughter of seals as "inherently inhumane". Tags: seal hunters.

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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. Changes in the manner of slaughter (i.e., Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language. Paul Watson 's response is, I think, the right one.

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