Humane Society calls for seafood boycott to protest Canadian seal hunt
WASHINGTON A group angered by the annual seal hunt in Canada is hoping to exert some economic pressure on Canada's government to end it. The Humane Society of the United States is calling on American consumers and restaurants to boycott seafood from Canada.
Two American companies -- Legal Sea Foods restaurants and Down East Seafoods distributors -- have joined in the boycott. The Humane Society is urging more than five-thousand other distributors to do the same.
Animal rights groups say the hunt that began last week is needlessly cruel. Seals are killed with clubs, rifles and spears.
Canadian officials say killing the seals for their pelts brings badly needed income to poor fishing communities.
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