Video from the 2007 Canadian seal hunt
Tuesday 10 April 2007
Rebecca Aldworth (Humane Society of the United States) witnesses some of the worst cruelty she has ever seen in her nine years observing Canada's commerical seal hunt.
Over one and a quarter million seal pups have been clubbed or shot to death over the last four years during the annual Canadian seal slaughter.
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