Support Sea Shepherd in their Fight to End the Seal Hunt

Worldwide Demonstrations

Bringing the World's Attention to the Canadian Slaughter of Seals

DEMONSTRATE!

If you would like to let the Canadian government know how you feel about this horrific slaughter, you might like to organize your own demonstration!

Here are some ideas for your ACTION:


DEMONSTRATE AGAINST THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT

* Stage your demonstration at a site other than a government building. You will have more flexibility in planning the protest to occur at a time of the day or evening when you think you can gain a larger audience.
* Consider holding it outside a restaurant or a grocery store that sells Canadian seafood.
* Hold an all-night vigil.
* Set-up a seal cemetery; hold public funerals for the seals.
* Promote the Canadian Seafood Boycott during your protest. Please visit our Boycott page for more information.
* Hold formal or informal negotiations with representatives of restaurants and/or grocery stores asking them to stop selling Canadian seafood. Retailers joining the boycott will help put financial pressure on Canada to stop the annual seal hunt.
* If you choose to stage your demonstration in front of a Canadian government building, consulate, or embassy, click here for a list of addresses.

For printable flyers, posters, and banners, visit our Seal Defense Demonstration Resource page!

Please note: Generally demonstrators must remain on the public sidewalks. If you have any doubts you should check with your city to determine its requirements before the protest. After the demonstration, you should enter the building to deliver the copies of the petitions to the official on duty. One other person could accompany you to photograph the delivery. [Note: Please make sure you photocopy the petitions and send the original set back to the Sea Shepherd headquarters].

THANK YOU FOR YOUR EFFORTS - THIS SEAL SLAUGHTER HAS GOT TO BE STOPPED - YOUR PARTICIPATION IS ESSENTIAL!
http://www.seashepherd.org/seals/worldwide-demonstrations.html
http://www.seashepherd.org/seals-resources/






Boycott

Sea Shepherd discourages the consumption of any seafood, but for those who do consume it, we urge you to join in the Boycott of Canadian Seafood.

According to boycott expert and long-time seal protection activist Stephen Best of Environmental Voters: If the experiences in the mid 1980s are indicative, the Canadian Seafood Boycott - if well-implemented - will likely end the commercial seal hunt. The most optimistic estimated value of the seal hunt is $16 million; exports of seafood to the US are about $3.3 billion. Therefore, the seal hunt value is less than 0.48% of the value of exports to the US. If we can achieve just a 25% decline in the wholesale price in the US, that's $825 million or 51 times the value of the seal hunt.

That is a rallying cry to people around the world -- you CAN make a difference! You can help to save the seals once again.

* The Red Lobster restaurant chain is the world's largest purchaser of Canadian seafood and, in particular, seafood sold by Canadian sealers. For this reason, organizations are doing all they can to convince Red Lobster to help end the Canadian commercial seal hunt by boycotting Canadian seafood. So far, Red Lobster has refused to do so. Please join us in asking Red Lobster President Kim A. Lopdrup not to buy or serve Canadian seafood until the Canada's commercial seal hunt is ended.
* Help educate Red Lobster patrons and show them how they can help influence Red Lobster to do the right thing and help end the slaughter of seals. Download this Red Lobster leaflet which can be handed to Red Lobster customers as they are entering the restaurant and/or placed on their windshields! Share it with friends and family. Make copies and distribute widely! [Note: Print 2-sided and cut into fourths]
* Download this Boycott Canadian Seafood flyer with facts and action tips! Share it with friends and family. Make copies and distribute widely!
* Read this well-written letter that a concerned citizen sent to the Canadian Tourism Commission.

Sea Shepherd asks you to honor this boycott which is one of three strategies that we are pursuing as a part of the Unified Opposition against the Canadian seal slaughter (Canadian Seafood Boycott and Demonstrations) . Thank you to Harpseals.org for compiling the below information in items #1-3.

Those who kill the seals and their related industries are our targets. That's why our MAIN BOYCOTT TARGET is: Seafood from Atlantic Canada

Additional boycott targets are: nutritional supplements made from seal oil and seal pelts.

1) Seafood from Atlantic Canada

Seafood from Atlantic Canada is our primary focus, especially seafood from Newfoundland. Our main targets are:
snow crab
scallops
mackerel
turbot lobster
mussels
herring
sardines cold-water shrimp
cod
prawns
flatfishes

These can be dried, salted, smoked, canned, fresh or frozen. They are sold in grocery stores where they SHOULD (according to US law) be labeled as coming from Canada. They are also sold in restaurants and cafeterias.

boycott_snowcrabSo, if you eat seafood at restaurants or cafeterias, be sure to ask where it's from... and BOYCOTT CANADIAN!

One of the major points we'd like to emphasize in regards to this boycott is the importance for ANYBODY INVOLVED IN OPPOSING the annual seal killing to realize how closely tied the fish and seafood industry is to the seal product industry. This is precisely the reason why a targeted boycott for seafood can be effective!

Some major brands and companies to boycott are:

boycott_brunswick_seafood_logoAcadian, Atlantic Pearl, Bay Shore, Blue Royal, Breakwater, Brunswick, Cape Cod, Canadian Cove, Century Seafoods, Classic (from Beothic), Clearwater, Deep Sea, Doyle, Fisherman's Finest, Fishery Products International (FPI), Fogo Island, Harbour View, Highliner Foods, Island Pride, Luxury (from Beothic), Northland, Notre Dame Seafoods, Ocean Choice, Ocean Elite, Ocean Leader, Ocean Queen, Ocean Select, Oram's Choice, Quinland, Quin-Sea, Sea Best (from Beaver Street Co.), Seafreez, Sea Fresh, St. Paul's, World Catch, and, lastly, Violet brand

(See the handy PRINT FRIENDLY LIST to carry in your wallet!)

IF YOU REPRESENT ONE OF THESE BRANDS WE ARE BOYCOTTING AND WANT TO GET OFF THIS LIST, we can help you . . .

It's easy to GET OFF OUR BOYCOTT TARGET LIST! All we ask is that you write a letter to both the DFO and your local politician in charge, stating that you OPPOSE the seal hunt and are concerned about your company's well being, (and the future of all Canadian fishermen), if the boycott continues.

If you do that, we will not only take you OFF the above list, but we will HIGHLIGHT YOUR OPPOSITION to the seal hunt!

Information on specific companies involved:

Not only are many fishermen also sealers, but one of the largest seal processors, Atlantic Marine Products, is owned by the Barry Group, the largest seafood processor and exporter in Newfoundland. The Barry Group sells mostly cold-water shrimp, lobsters, snow crabs, herring, and mackerel. Two of their biggest customers are Red Lobster and Long John Silvers.

boycott_globeclrhomeAnother large fish processor is Independent Fish Harvesters, Inc., owned by a group of fishermen. This company, located in Brigus, sells frozen cooked snow crabs mostly to the Carolinas, Florida, and the West Coast of the U.S. They sell to such distributors as Beaver Street (Jacksonville, FL), which markets snow crabs under the label "Sea Best" and World Catch (Seattle, WA), which sells snow crabs in 2 lb. boxes. They also sell to grocers which sell them under their own store brands. Sometimes they also sell to Singleton, a subsidiary of ConAgra based in Florida.

Another large seafood processor is Fishery Products International. They sell cooked, frozen cold-water shrimp, sometimes breaded. They are sold frozen in 1, 2, or 5 lb. bags and labeled FPI. In addition to exporting to the U.S., they sell these shrimp in the U.K. at such stores as Marks and Spence.

Another company called Notre Dame Seafoods, Inc., located in Twillingate (tel. 709-884-1260) sells cold-water shrimp to a distributor with offices in Los Angeles and Seattle, Washington. They intend to increase distribution to the U.S. next year. Check for Notre Dame Seafoods or NDS on shrimp packages.

Look for packages that are labeled "from Canada," and, in the fresh fish department, country of origin labels (COOL) are supposed to be on all products. Please look for this Canadian seafood in YOUR local supermarket and let us know what you find. We'll then add these other supermarkets to this page.

2) Nutritional Supplements

The following products are made from murdered baby seals:

Terra Nova, Canomega, and Omegavite

boycott_omega_vite_bottleThese are all omega-3 fatty acid capsules . . .

Although these particular seal products are ILLEGAL in the USA, international seal protectors should be sure to AVOID them.

And, we bet you guessed we were going to tell you this:

There are many excellent ALTERNATIVES to baby seal oil as a nutritional supplement. Here are 2 ideas:

1. Flax seed oil, which is sold in capsule form and a liquid that can be added directly to food (sold in natural food stores, the natural food sections of major groceries, and in the pharmacy area of WalMart).
2. Hemp seed oil, with a nutty flavor, sold in liquid form. This is harder to find but is available on the internet. Also available are packages of ground hemp seeds and various products made from hemp seeds. This may come as a disappointment to some, but you can't get high from hemp seeds :}

3) Seal Pelts

Seal pelts are ILLEGAL in the US, but seal loving Americans should certainly boycott fashion houses that sell them including:

Prada, Dolce & Gabbana, Birger Christensen, New Vogue, and Vogue Furriers

Besides participating in the boycott yourself, you can help by writing letters to these companies protesting their use of seal pelts.

The Odette Leblanc Collection: They say the following about their products: "Composed of a complete line of very unique seal fur products.. Ranging from small accessories to full length coats, you will surely find the ideally suited item you've been looking for or even been dreaming about owning!"
Odette Leblanc
022 de l'%uFFFDcole Rd.
Pointe-aux-Loups, %uFFFDles de la madeleine PQ G4T 8B1
http://www.ilesdelamadeleine.com/odette/index2.htm
Tel: 418-969-9385
E-mail: oleblan@sympatico.ca

Petit Nord: They sell children's seal fur hats, boots, mittens.
E-mail: Use form at http://www.petitnord.com/contact/contact.htm

Pajar: Makes/sells sealskin boots.
Pajar
4509 Coloniale Avenue
Montreal, Quebec, Canada. H2T 1V8
www.pajar.com
Tel.: 514-844-3067
Toll free: 1-888-667-2527
Fax: 514-844-3066
E-mail: pajar@pajar.com

4) Don't Visit Canada!

Write a letter to the government agencies that oversee tourism in Canada and let them know that you will cancel your travel plans or refrain from making any vacation or business plans to visit their province. Tell them that you will withhold your travel dollars until Canada permanently ends the seal slaughter. Although the major focus of the boycott is on the seafood industry, the more financial impact that can be brought to bear upon Canada, the better.

Read this well-written letter that a concerned citizen sent to the Canadian Tourism Commission.

Canada Tourism Commission
55 Metcalfe Street, Suite 600
Ottawa, Ontario K1P 6L5
Canada
Tel: (613) 946-1000
E-mail: ctx_feedback@ctc.cct.ca

Newfoundland and Labrador Tourism
Attention: Web Master
P.O. Box 8700
St. John's, NL
Canada
A1B 4J6
Tel: 1-800-563-6353
E-mail form: http://www.newfoundlandlabrador.com/Contact/Feedback.aspx


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What You Can Do to Help

Sea Shepherd is unique because we are the only organization with a ship going to the ice floes of Canada in opposition to the seal hunt. But, in addition to our efforts at sea, we need to fight from onshore as well. To do this, we need your help!

Please join us in our land-based campaign strategies to stop the seal slaughter. There are many actions that you can take immediately to make a difference:

* Boycott Canadian Seafood
* Write to Politicians
* Write to Companies
* Contact Media
* Involve Friends & Family
* Donate to Sea Shephed

BOYCOTT CANADIAN SEAFOOD: Sea Shepherd discourages the consumption of any seafood, but for those who do consume it, we urge you to join in the Boycott of Canadian Seafood. In the early 1980's, boycotts helped shut-down the seal hunt. Let's do it again!

* The Red Lobster restaurant chain is the world's largest purchaser of Canadian seafood and, in particular, seafood sold by Canadian sealers. For this reason, organizations are doing all they can to convince Red Lobster to help end the Canadian commercial seal hunt by boycotting Canadian seafood. So far, Red Lobster has refused to do so. Please join us in asking Red Lobster President Kim A. Lopdrup not to buy or serve Canadian seafood until the Canada's commercial seal hunt is ended. This special Red Lobster Internet public interest message contains all the contact information you'll need. Please link to and distribute it so that more people can help.
* Help educate Red Lobster patrons and show them how they can help influence Red Lobster to do the right thing and help end the slaughter of seals. Download this Red Lobster leaflet which can be handed to Red Lobster customers as they are entering the restaurant and/or placed on their windshields! Share it with friends and family. Make copies and distribute widely! [Note: Print 2-sided and cut into fourths]
* Download this Boycott Canadian Seafood flyer with facts and action tips! Share it with friends and family. Make copies and distribute widely!
* Read this well-written letter that a concerned citizen sent to the Canadian Tourism Commission.

WRITE POLITICIANS: Send a letter, e-mail, or fax to your local politicians and the Canadian government to demand an end to this atrocious slaughter of seals.

WRITE COMPANIES THAT SELL SEAL FUR PRODUCTS: Send a letter, e-mail, or fax to companies (below) that sell products made from the fur and skin of seals slaughtered on the East coast of Canada. These companies are participating in the annual hunt by giving the Canadian government and sealers the economic incentive they need to continue their barbaric practice. Send a letter to these companies and politely request that they make their fashion more compassionate by ending the use of seal fur. Due to the Marine Mammal Protection Act, the use of seal fur and skin is banned in the United States, however, these companies can sell seal products in the European and International. [Note: the sale of whitecoat pelts are still banned in Europe].

The Odette Leblanc Collection: They say the following about their products: "Composed of a complete line of very unique seal fur products.. Ranging from small accessories to full length coats, you will surely find the ideally suited item you've been looking for or even been dreaming about owning!"
Odette Leblanc
022 de l'%uFFFDcole Rd.
Pointe-aux-Loups, %uFFFDles de la madeleine PQ G4T 8B1
Tel: 418-969-9385
E-mail: oleblan@sympatico.ca

Petit Nord: They sell children's seal fur hats, boots, mittens.
E-mail: Use form at http://www.petitnord.com/contact/contact.htm

Pajar: Makes/sells sealskin boots.
Pajar
4509 Coloniale Avenue
Montreal, Quebec, Canada. H2T 1V8
www.pajar.com
Tel.: 514-844-3067
Toll free: 1-888-667-2527
Fax: 514-844-3066
E-mail: pajar@pajar.com

CONTACT YOUR LOCAL MEDIA (TV, NEWSPAPERS AND RADIO): In order to spread the news about what is happening in Canada during March and April, we need to get media coverage.

* Write letters to the editors of your local newspapers
- list of Canadian media sources
- list of United States media sources
* Call TV and radio stations to ask them to cover this important news
* Refer your local broadcast and cable TV stations to Sea Shepherd to get a free copy of our Martin Sheen "Save the Seals" Public Service Announcement (PSA)
* You can offer the Sea Shepherd telephone number 360-370-5650, so the media can contact us for interviews with Sea Shepherd president and founder, Captain Paul Watson.

GET YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY INVOLVED: Invite them to our website to learn more about this important issue and take action.

NON-U.S. CITIZENS ALERT: Be an "eco spy" - Keep an eye out for sales of seal-related products. If you find any sales of seal oil capsules or seal fur and/or leather, please let us know by e-mail or call
1-360-370-5650. We will send the company a request that they pull the item(s) off their shelves and not re-stock them. We will point out that they are selling and profiting from the cruel and unnecessary killing of baby seals. Recently, Costco stores in Newfoundland removed seal oil capsules from their shelves when a Sea Shepherd representative approached them about the situation. Your efforts can make a difference!

SUPPORT SEA SHEPHERD WITH A DONATION TODAY!: Click here to make a donation via credit card or to learn about other ways to support Sea Shepherd.

Letter Writing Campaign:

Start and/or continue your letter-writing campaign. It is important that you keep writing often to remind those in a position to stop the Canadian seal hunt that they must do the right thing and put an end the slaughter of harp and hood seals.

Send Your Letters of Protest By E-Mail, Fax and/or Mail to . . .

Click here for a sample letter in simple text form

* Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has the power to stop the hunt

Let him know he needs to do his job to protect our oceans!

The Right Honourable Stephen Harper
Office of the Prime Minister
80 Wellington Street
Ottawa, ON K1A 0A2
Canada
Constituency Tel (for Canadians): 613-992-4211
Fax: 613-941-6900
E-mail: pm@pm.gc.ca

* This is the ministry responsible for setting seal quotas and enforcing violations of the Marine Mammal Regulations

The Honourable Ms. Gail Shea
House of Commons
Minister, Fisheries and Oceans
Parliament Buildings, Wellington Street
Ottawa, ON K1A 0A6
Canada
Tel: 613-992-9223
Fax: 613-992-1974
E-mail: Shea.G@parl.gc.ca

* For Everyone Around the World - Canadian Embassies and Consulates

Canadian Embassies and Consulates must report to the seat of parliament in Ottawa, Canada, each month - let them send a report that the citizens of their host country are asking the Canadian government to STOP THE SLAUGHTER OF HARP AND HOOD SEALS!

http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/world/embassies/cra-en.asp

* For Canadian Citizens - To find out the contact information of your senators and members of Parliament

http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/about/people/key/Ministry.asp?lang=E

* For U.S. Citizens - Read about U.S. Resolution 269 and write your senator today!


Contact your local, regional, or federal representative. Set up a meeting with officials to discuss your opposition to the Canadian Seal Hunt.

Take pictures at your meeting and send them to Sea Shepherd with a written report.


Letters to the Editor are very powerful. Your letters are important and have impact!

Following are the top newspapers in Canada:

The Telegram
Columbus Drive - P.O. Box 5970
St. John's, NL A1C 5X7
Canada
letters@thetelegram.com The Globe and Mail
444 Front Street West
Toronto, ON M5V 2S9
Canada
Letters@GlobeAndMail.ca
The Toronto Star
One Yonge Street
Toronto, ON M5E 1E6
Canada
lettertoed@thestar.ca Vancouver Sun
#1-200 Granville Street
Vancouver, BC V6C 3N3
Canada
sunletters@png.canwest.com
Ottawa Citizen
1101 Baxter Road
Box 5020
Ottawa, ON K2C 3M4
Canada
letters@thecitizen.canwest.com National Post Editoral
300 - 1450 Don Mills Road
Don Mills, ON M3B 3R5
Canada
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