Animal Cruelty Olympics: Canada, Norway, and the WTO Club Baby Seals!

On November 27, 2009 Global Justice for Animals and the Environment organized demonstrations at Canadian Consulates and trade offices in New York, NY and Tucson, AZ in the USA; and Bangalore, Karnataka India to protest Canada and Norway's WTO challenge to the European Union's ban on seal products. The demonstrations were organized part of Worldwide Fur Free Friday, the annual day of protest the bloody fur trade, and WTO Turnaround Week of Action, marking the 10th anniversary of the Seattle WTO protests and the WTO meeting beginning in Geneva on November 30, 2009 -- 10 years to the day after the Battle of Seattle. In New York, activists staged the "Animal Cruelty Olympics" at the Canadian consulate to shame Canada in anticipation of the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• seals
• WTO
• Canada
• Norway
• seal hunt
• animal rights
• environment
• Jens Stoltenberg
• Stephen Harper
• World Trade Organization
• anti-globalization

[seawolf1451]

Why am i not surprised you are from the US,the world police,the country that never does anytthing wrong.Land of oportunity and freedom.

Clean up in your own fucking problems before you start judging others,just a piece of advice.

[AdamWeissman]

@seawolf1451 The vast majority of our work relates to US trade policy. We are addressing this issue because without US participation in the WTO, the WTO would collapse. The US has supported anti-environmental and anti-animal rights in the WTO. At this event, we circulated two petitions -- one to the presidents of Norway and Canada and one to US officials asking them to support a WTO pullout.

[TheJohhnnnnn]

LMAO while eating a honking giant Big Mac. Dont those GlueBags look stupid??????

[AdamWeissman]

@TheJohhnnnnn

I've been a vegan since I was 12 years old. Nice try, though.

[seawolf1451]

@AdamWeissman Well we are still hunting seals in Norway no matter what,this is to control the large amount of seals that has caused havoc to the ecosystems in the North sea in the the past few years,and i dont think it matters if you club them or shoot them,they still have to be controlled so they dont take completely over.

[TheJohhnnnnn]

GlueBags mind your own Buisness. If its cheaper to club a seal in NF, so be it,

[AdamWeissman]

@jm04206 -

We're addressing this issue because of the WTO case. Our organization deals with animal and environmental issues impacted by free trade agreements. We don't pick the species WTO cases address. We do plenty of work around animals that aren't traditionally considered "cute."

[AdamWeissman]

@emilhenry - There's not a shred of science to support the notion that humans killing seals is stabilizing ecosystems. Talk is cheap. Let's see some data.

[AdamWeissman]

Right. Here's the food chain. Seal eat fish. Fish eat smaller fish. Wipe out the seals and you destroy the ecosystem.

[jm04206]

@nifacey Haven't you noticed no one feels sorry for the cockroach? THese animal rights people have issues. THey only like "cute" animals. Bigots I tell ya!

[NedrevikOWNS]

Some people will never understand the food chain.