Help Stop the Namibian Seal Slaughter

Last year, the world looked on in horror as the Namibian government permitted the slaughter of 86,000 Cape fur seals.

Sealers bludgeon the seals with clubs and "hakapiks" (clubs with metal hooks on their ends), drag conscious seals across the sand with boat hooks, and toss dead and dying animals into heaps, leaving their carcasses to rot because there is no market for their meat. Pups vomit up their mother's milk in shock—before, during, and after being clubbed and stabbed.

The sealing industry claims that it is killing more seals because of an increase in the demand for fur—all fur. Anyone wearing a mink- or fox-fur coat or a jacket trimmed with coyote or rabbit fur is partly responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of baby seals.

Please contact the prime minister of Namibia and urge him to put an end to the barbaric seal slaughter.

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