Ocean Sentry
From thewesternstar.com) Canada- People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) – a U.S.-based animals rights group – has written Elliston”s Heritage Foundation asking it to build a memorial to the “millions of baby seals who are bludgeoned, shot and often skinned alive in seal hunts.” The foundation is planning to build a permanent memorial to sealers who have died throughout the history of the seal hunt. PETA wants the seals remembered, too. “We urge you to consider erecting a memorial to the seals who die in even more horrifying ways during the hunt each year – a tragedy that has yet to end,” wrote PETA vice-president Tracy Reiman.
“Descriptions of the 1914 Newfoundland incident are sad indeed,” said the PETA letter. “But if you can see the misery in that incident, surely you can open your heart to see that the seals killed each year in the largest marine mammal slaughter in the world suffer tremendously too.”
