Dear Ellen DeGeneres
Dear Ellen,
I was very disappointed to hear that you have joined the list of celebrities who are speaking out about the Newfoundland seal hunt. It has been illegal to "club baby seals" since 1987. No baby seals are "brutally murdered", it is a legal hunt of adult harp seals... and even then, seals are killed humanely. The seal hunt is several times more humane than the chicken and other live food processing factories that this world supports every day. The seal hunt supports outport families-- families that are barely making ends meet, who sell, eat, and use every part of the seal that they legally and humanely kill.
The harp seal population off the coast of Newfoundland is over 9 million, which is four times the population in the 1970s. Nine million seals that eat millions and millions of fish from already depleted fish stocks. The seal hunt is a fully sustainable, necessary service, and it has been reviewed and approved by the World Wildlife Fund several times.
Please read the Canadian Government website "Myths and Realities of the Canadian Seal Hunt". Here is the link: http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/fm-gp/seal-phoque/myth-eng.htm
Misinformation about the seal hunt creates unfair animosity towards Newfoundlanders, and those who love and support them. Please do not support this unfounded hatred. Ellen, I know that you have always advocated tolerance, and I hope desperately that you will uphold that same standard for us.
Kelly
I was very disappointed to hear that you have joined the list of celebrities who are speaking out about the Newfoundland seal hunt. It has been illegal to "club baby seals" since 1987. No baby seals are "brutally murdered", it is a legal hunt of adult harp seals... and even then, seals are killed humanely. The seal hunt is several times more humane than the chicken and other live food processing factories that this world supports every day. The seal hunt supports outport families-- families that are barely making ends meet, who sell, eat, and use every part of the seal that they legally and humanely kill.
The harp seal population off the coast of Newfoundland is over 9 million, which is four times the population in the 1970s. Nine million seals that eat millions and millions of fish from already depleted fish stocks. The seal hunt is a fully sustainable, necessary service, and it has been reviewed and approved by the World Wildlife Fund several times.
Please read the Canadian Government website "Myths and Realities of the Canadian Seal Hunt". Here is the link: http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/fm-gp/seal-phoque/myth-eng.htm
Misinformation about the seal hunt creates unfair animosity towards Newfoundlanders, and those who love and support them. Please do not support this unfounded hatred. Ellen, I know that you have always advocated tolerance, and I hope desperately that you will uphold that same standard for us.
Kelly