Canadian Minister Wants to Market Seal Meat as a Seafood Delicacy

Last month brought upsetting news from Canada as the nation’s new Department of Fisheries and Oceans Minister, Diane Lebouthillier, demonstrated a chilling lack of compassion when she described her plans to expand Canada’s commercial seal industry by marketing seal meat as a seafood delicacy to Canadians.

According to Lebouthillier plans to push seal meat are already underway, with promotional work being done on the ground with the hotel industry to “bring seal to the table”.

The move comes as Canada’s annual seal hunt gears up for the 2024 season, set to begin in just a few weeks. The horrific event sees seals bludgeoned, stabbed, and shot to death with the vast majority of victims being pups that are just a few months old.

Species Unite along with a number of animal advocacy organizations have been fighting for years to put an end to the horror and violence of the annual seal hunt in Canada and we have been winning! 

The scale of Canada’s commercial seal hunt has plummeted dramatically thanks to global pressure campaigns that have raised concerns over animal welfare violations and led to numerous international trade bans on seal goods. However, tragically, hundreds of thousands of seals are still slaughtered each year, and if this heartless new minister gets her way those numbers will only increase.