I wonder if this man ever faced persecution.

April 27th a beautiful sunny day in Tel-Aviv and around 160 people of all ages are holding posters reading ‘END THE BLOODBATH of BABIES!!’, “FUR IS BORN’….and many other slogans causing the passersby to inquire; and learn the truth of the massacre of nursing seal pups both in Canada and in Namibia. The local demonstration organized by the International Anti Fur Coalition (IAFC) is part of the global action to end the seal slaughter. In both countries the nursing pups are often skinned alive as their mothers witness, helplessly trying to defend their young. The Canadian massacre has all but been closed down via the revealed brutality involved. The market is banned by the E.U., U.S.A., Russia, Mexico, Belarus, the Ukraine, and others….. The Canadian government loses millions of tax payers’ dollars on the annual massacre and has 400,000 pelts in storage from past years that they can not sell. The DFO of Canada raises the kill quota each year (this year up to 400,000) the true kill will be less then 16,000, as the sealers have no market and many only kill the pups out of spite and throw the bloody pup skins into the sea.
Namibia’s annual seal slaughter violates their existing law; the Namibia’s Animal Protection Act of 1962; which outlaws the repeated clubbing to death of any animal. The government overlooks the law by declaring that the seal are not “animals”; this is to profit from a trade agreement to buy all the pelts till 2019 with their sole buyer Hatem Yavz a business from Turkey and living in Australia. The population of seal has sharply decreased in resent years from 2 million to only 650,000 and yet the kill quota has increased to 85,000 pups to be killed. The massacre takes place at seal/nature reserves where the blood soaked sand is cleaned up with bulldozers each day before the eco-tourist arrive
In both nations the seals natural birthing habitats have all but disappeared, forcing the mother seals to birth and raise her young on the shore where they are in danger. The IAFC plans to contact the Canadian Ambassador and the Namibian conciliate with their signed petition and official letter addressing the issue.