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Tags: direitos dos animais | focas | pele

Hoje celebramos uma grande vitória: a União Europeia baniu o comércio de produtos de pele de foca!

Rebbeca Aldworth da Humane Society International disse a propósito disto:

The European Union has closed its borders to products of cruel commercial seal slaughters, removing a primary market for Canada’s globally-condemned sealing industry. Many believe this ban will deliver a blow from which the Canadian seal slaughter may not recover.

The Canadian government tried every trick in the book to try to derail the ban: sending massive delegations to lobby on behalf of the sealing industry, misinforming decision-makers, and even threatening trade reprisals. But the EU acted on behalf of its citizens and, in doing so, has saved millions of defenseless seals from a horrible fate.

This is the beginning of the end for the Canadian seal slaughter. The Canadian government estimates the loss of the EU market will cost Canada’s sealing industry $6.6 million (CAD) annually. Given that the landed value of the Canadian seal hunt last year was less than $7 million, the implications are enormous.

With this ban, the EU joins the United States (which outlawed seal products in 1972) and Mexico and Croatia, which ended the trade in 2006. Soon there will be nowhere left to sell the products of cruel commercial seal slaughters, and seals will be worth more alive than dead.

Seals' lives have already been saved. Just the promise of an EU ban was enough to drive this year\'s price for seal fur down to $15 (CAD) per skin—a decline of 86 percent since 2006.

As a result, many sealers stayed home. Out of Canada’s quota of 338,200 seals, fewer than 60,000 have been killed to date. By the regulated closing date of the seal hunt—15th May—it is likely more than a quarter of a million baby seals will have been spared.

Now that the EU has banned its trade in seal products, countless more seals will live out their lives in peace from this year forward.

Nem sempre corre mal e é mais uma demonstração do poder do lobbying; nunca se esqueçam, se não fizerem nada, é que nada acontece de certeza.

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