Heather and Paul McCartney Make Plea to End Canadian Seal Slaughter

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Heather and Paul McCartney Bring Hope, and a Media Spotlight, to Canada's Seals


March 3, 2006


The HSUS
By Rebecca Aldworth

On Thursday, I was privileged to stand on the spectacular ice floes in the Gulf of St. Lawrence with two of the most dedicated and visible animal protectionists in the world—Heather and Paul McCartney. They came to the seal nursery to draw world attention to the cruel and needless seal slaughter that will take place just weeks from today.

For the past seven years, I have gone to the ice floes to document the commercial seal hunt at close range—observing horrific acts of cruelty. But today was a different kind of visit. It was a celebration of what is, to me and to the hundreds of tourists who visit the ice floes each year, the greatest wildlife spectacle on earth.

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