The Vines and Jet Lead the Call For an End to the Cruel Seal Hunt

Rock bands The Vines, Jet, the John Butler Trio, and Something for Kate are known internationally for producing fan-favorite hits. Now, members of these groups are taking a stand on an international issue by demanding an end to the cruel Canadian seal hunt.

The Vines´ Brad Heald, Craig Nicholls, and Ryan Griffiths; Jet´s Nick Cester, Mark Wilson, and Cam Muncey; John Butler; and all three members of Something for Kate have joined thousands of others in asking the Canadian government to put an immediate end to the slaughter of baby seals for fur in Canada.

The world has looked on in horror for years as the Canadian government has permitted the annual slaughter of as many as 335,000 baby harp seals. During the hunt, the terrified seals are beaten with clubs, shot, and impaled on hooks, and as many as 42 percent are skinned alive. Sealers drag conscious seals across the ice floes with boat hooks and toss dead and dying animals into heaps, leaving their carcasses to rot because there is no market for their meat.

The hunt has continued this year despite the fact that thousands of baby harp seals who haven’t yet learned how to swim have drowned because the ice floes on which they live are melting.

“The harp seal hunt is the largest massacre of marine mammals in the world, and seeing the news footage of it makes me sick to my stomach—it is completely barbaric,” says Something for Kate´s Stephanie Ashworth. “It´s time for Prime Minister Harper to put an end to this disgrace.”

Help make this year the seal hunt´s last! Join these musicians and thousands of others in urging the Canadian government to end the annual slaughter of baby seals. Sign PETA´s petition to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper calling for a permanent end to the cruel hunt today.

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