Urge Your Grocery Store to Protect Seals

We urgently need your help to ask your local grocery store to not buy or sell Canadian seafood until the senseless slaughter of seals comes to an end.  

Nigel Barker

Send a message to grocery chains.

What's the connection between your grocery store and the seal hunt? Sealers are actually commercial fishermen who earn only a small fraction of their livelihood from killing baby seals for their fur.

The vast majority of the sealers' incomes—95 percent actually—comes from commercial fishing. About two-thirds of Canada's seafood is exported to the U.S. each year, bringing in more than $2.5 billion for the Canadian economy annually. This dwarfs the few million dollars contributed by the commercial seal hunt.

By choosing to avoid Canadian seafood until the seal hunt ends for good, you can give the fishermen who kill seals a clear economic incentive to stop the slaughter. So far, our boycott has resulted in millions of lost revenue for Canadian sealers—but we aren't there yet.

Our best opportunity to end this barbaric hunt is through the power of our pocketbooks. But we need you to send the message to major grocery chains that this hunt is unacceptable.