Kristina Pepelko is a writer, avid traveler, food lover and passionate animal, environmental and social... Kristina Pepelko is a writer, avid traveler, food lover and passionate animal, environmental and social justice advocate. She has taught English in Croatia and worked as a travel writer for Like Croatia. Currently, she serves as a poetry editor for the literary journal, Squalorly and as a volunteer for Keep Michigan Wolves Protected in addition to being an OGP Green Monster who focuses on the Buzz Monster and Earth Monster channels. You can follow her on Twitter: @K__Pep. Read more about Kristina Pepelko Read More
The Canadian sealing industry just doesn’t seem to get it. Widespread opposition against its seal hunt has been mounting for years on both Canadian and international soil. Even China has stalled the import of seal meat over concerns of the cruelty involved to obtain it.
Earth to sealers: almost no one wants to see thousands of young seals clubbed to death each year. And yet, for some reason – despite the dwindling market for seal products and clear opposition – Canada’s cruel slaughter continues year after year. The 2014 hunting season has already begun, with a massive quota of 400,000 seals.
While sealers and certain governmental bodies stubbornly hold on to an unsustainable, uneconomical, and cruel “industry,” the world is growing ever more impatient and outraged, illustrating that Canada’s annual slaughter may in fact be on its way out once and for all.
Celebrities are even playing a key role in getting the word out about Canada’s cruel hunt, including, Big Bang Theory star and animal lover, Kaley Cuoco.
Cuoco recently took to Twitter to voice her utter disgust with the hunt – go, Cuoco!
While a number of followers echoed her abhorrence of the annual slaughter, others seemed harder to budge. However, Cuoco quickly thought up of some comebacks, like the one below:
Along with voicing her own opinions about the hunt, Cuoco has been urging her two million followers to speak out against it as well and Donate to the Humane Society of the United States’ Protect Seals campaign, which works tirelessly each year to stop the slaughter.
Cuoco is looking to encourage people to continue raising awareness about the hunt and is asking followers to share their actions with the hashtag #saveseals.
Join her conversation today on Twitter and add your voice to the thousands of others taking a stand against Canada’s sealing industry. You can also Donate to the Protect Seals campaign here.
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All help is welcome. Any effort made is just as important as any. But to not do anything is shameful. Thank you Kaley Cuoco.
So should I know who this Kaley is? I don’t but save the seals!
Stop the slaughter of seals! You need that for food and warmth? Go to the goddamn store and buy the stuff – in this day and age there is no need to hunt – you don’t live in a third world country