In the name of "fashion"

Look at that face! Could you ever justify looking at one of those precious seals and bludgeoning them before skinning the alive? No. The correct answer is no.

I received mail a couple days ago from the Humane Society asking for donations to help them end the slaughter of these seals. Included in the envelope was a sheet of information with some pretty unbelievable statistics:

If you can't read that, what you basically need to know is that two million seals have been killed in the last 10 years. And most of those seals? Younger than three months old. 

Cruel. Plain and simple. It's cruel.

The good news, however, is that more and more countries are banning the trade of marine mammal products (which includes seal pelts), and the number of seals killed has gone down nearly 90% since 2006.

But the fight isn't over yet, and there is still more work to be done. So what can we do?

If you can donate monetarily, then please consider giving to the Protect Seals movement. You can read more about them at protectseals.org.

If you can't donate right now, there are still ways to be involved:

- Join the boycott at humanesociety.org/boycottforseals and pledge to stop eating Canadian seafood until the slaughter stops.
- Check out the HSUS restaurant locator to help find restaurants and grocery stores near you that support the boycott of Canadian seafood, and patronize these establishments. You can find this at humanesociety.org/restaurant_locator. I did this and was surprised to see that there were very few, if any, establishments close to me (many were an hour or more away) that were on this list.  If you're in the same situation, we can change that:

Screen shot from the Protect Seals app available from the restaurant locator link above

We're all capable of doing something to help this cause. 

This is not necessary, not funny (you wouldn't believe how many people are making jokes out of this), and not acceptable. And there are people out there who argue that the seals are killed in a humane way, but that is still no justification. 

Because really, fur is only cute on animals. You just look ridiculous. It's not fashionable.