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PETA Prime: Celebrating Kind Choices: Oh, Canada

The Canadian government allows club-wielding sealers to kill baby seals in front of their mothers after they have started molting their white fur, when they are just 12 days old-yes, seals can legally be killed before they are even 2 weeks old. The difference between bashing in the head of a 12-day-old seal and a 13-day-old seal is lost on most people, and opposition to the seal slaughter is growing. Here in the U.S., the sale of seal fur has been banned since 1972. Belgium and the Netherlands have passed laws banning the importation of seal fur, and the European Union (E.U.) is considering similar legislation. Just last week , a committee in the E.U. Parliament voted in favor of a strong prohibition on trade in seal products-this brings Europe one step closer to a complete ban.

Please contact the Vancouver Olympic Organizing Committee and demand that it help bring an immediate end to the seal slaughter.

PETA Prime: Celebrating Kind Choices: Oh, Canada

The PETA Files: Palin to PETA: Drop the Snowball or We'll Sue!

The PETA Files: Palin to PETA: Drop the Snowball or We'll Sue!

This morning, PETA's Policy Department received a Scrooge-like phone call from someone purporting to be from Gov. Sarah Palin's office threatening legal action against us if we don't play ball—or, actually, stop playing ball. Why are Ms. Palin's peeps so mad at PETA? Well, if you've played our Holiday Snowball Fight game recently, you may know. The game asks players to pick up a virtual snowball and take aim at 2008's biggest animal foes, from Colonel Sanders to the Trollsen twins to Alaska's own Sarah Palin. But guess what, Sarah? We've checked with our legal team, and they say that it's "protected parody," or "fair game"—so the game stays! After all, we're throwing snowballs, not shoes.

In real life, the moose and other animals Ms. Palin blows to smithereens don't stand a chance. But, hey, our game is virtual and nonviolent. To be honest, I'm not quite sure why Sarah is so mad about the game anyways. Wielding a gun and decked out in a sexy bikini and pageant ribbon, I'd think she'd be quite proud of how PETA's portrayed her.

Though this game is just a bit of harmless payback, Palin's real-life hunting habit is no joke. Palin not only guns down big moose but also supports aerial hunting of wolves—she even proposed putting a bounty of $150 on their heads. Wolves aren't even overpopulated in Alaska. The sole reason for the bounty would be to boost the numbers of moose and elk so that hunters will have more living targets for their blood sport. Pathetic.

Click here to pay ball with Sarah!

http://www.peta.org/feat/HolidaySnowballFight/index.aspx

A Shocking Look Inside Chinese Fur Farms

Animals being skinned alive -Please get active!

I highly recommend not watching the video - I briefly visited the website to make sure it was for real and had to turn it off as soon as the first animal got hit.

The video is of excruciating violence. Its painful silences affect us all deeply. If we don ' t protect animals from this type of brutality, we become accomplices.

A Shocking Look Inside Chinese Fur Farms


Pledge to go fur-free at PETA.org.