AR-News: (CA/US) Activists Revive Canada Seal Hunt Protest

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NEW YORK - Escalating a sporadic, 35-year-old protest campaign, opponents
of Canada's seal hunt are advocating a travel boycott, pushing their cause
in the U.S. Senate, even recruiting Paris Hilton. Canadian officials say
the tactics will fail and the hunt will continue.

"There comes a point where you just have to say, 'This is what we
believe,'" said Steven Outhouse of Canada's Department of Fisheries and
Oceans. "You can't back down every time someone says it's wrong."

The new protest initiative began after Canada last year announced a quota
of 975,000 seals that could be killed off Labrador and Newfoundland
through 2005. Protests are likely to intensify as the peak killing period
approaches in early April.

"We oppose the hunt for two main reasons - it's not sustainable and it's
cruel," said Naomi Rose, a scientist with the Humane Society of the United
States. The society denounces the hunt as "the largest commercial
slaughter of wildlife anywhere."
...
The Humane Society now has taken out full-page newspaper ads urging
Americans to consider canceling trips to Canada and boycotting Canadian
products. In the Senate, Carl Levin, D-Mich., introduced a resolution
demanding that the hunt cease. And at this month's Sundance Film Festival,
Paris Hilton posed in an anti-hunt sweatshirt - "Club Sandwiches, Not
Seals" - and signed a protest letter to the Canadian Embassy.

full story:
http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/fortwayne/news/local/7817663.htm

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