Obama 'Outraged' Over Seal Slaughter? April 9, 2009
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We love it when we hear from anyone who stands up for animals. Whether it's a Street Teamer, a celebrity, or someone learning the facts for the first time.
So you can't imagine how ecstatic we were when we heard that in 2006, when Barack Obama was an Illinois Senator, he wrote a letter to a group of constituents to thank them for their support of a resolution against the Canadian seal slaughter. He assured them that he would use his seat in the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations to support the resolution.
In his letter, then-Senator Obama wrote that "the United States should not condone" the slaughter, and vowed, "As a member of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, I will work with my colleagues to ensure that we take the necessary steps to express our outrage with this inhumane measure".
We applaud Obama for taking such a strong stand—and now, PETA Senior Vice President Dan Mathews has written a letter to President Obama asking him to express that same passion now, as president, in an appeal to the Canadian government to stop the seal slaughter.
You should be outraged too. Make sure you sign the petition to save the seals if you haven't already!
Stay loud!P.S. Yeah, we know this was one of the cheesiest jokes ever. This is for real—we promise!
Comments
I hope Obama doesn't end up being a hypocrite...
Posted by: Mar at April 10, 2009 5:37 PMI hope this needless slaughter ends soon. I am glad that Obama does not support this!!!
Posted by: Leanne at April 10, 2009 5:41 PMObama's been an excellent president so far. I'm glad he's against seal slaughter.
Great blog Rachel. :D
i hope this comes true and whatever obama said in the past that he does it because words can be nothing but if he shows that he cares for animlas too just like the hole world around us them we would defentiyl tak his word
Posted by: nivia at April 10, 2009 5:50 PMI
Posted by: Kristin at April 10, 2009 5:58 PMgod i love obama
Posted by: kaylie at April 10, 2009 6:27 PMomg that's awesome! Obama is awesome :D
Posted by: Alexandra at April 10, 2009 6:38 PMAlready signed this! :D I hope Obama does the right thing and helps us save the seals! ^___^
Posted by: Marcela at April 10, 2009 6:48 PMI just hope that he sticks with what he says.
Posted by: Paige at April 10, 2009 7:10 PMWe are too intelligent to be resorting to such caveman-like actions for clothing or food...
Posted by: Catherine KingChuparkoff at April 10, 2009 10:21 PMThat is greaT!!!
Posted by: Samantha Dillow at April 10, 2009 10:37 PMthat's totally awesome, but whether he sticks to his word or not is yet to be seen...how do we sign the petition??
Posted by: erin at April 10, 2009 11:43 PMGreat! But those are just words to get the votes from us animal activists. I'll believe it when I see it...
Posted by: at April 11, 2009 12:36 AMThis makes me happy :)
Posted by: Aleksa Fortuna at April 11, 2009 1:10 AMUh, so what about the US seal hunt... is Obama outraged about that too? There is a hunt in Alaska.
Posted by: rachel harding at April 11, 2009 11:13 AMI am so glad that someone who has that high of an authority is finally speaking up and trying to do something about it! I hope he'll finally put an end to this!
Posted by: Gisselle Camacho at April 11, 2009 1:03 PMI am so glad that someone who has such a high authority is finally paying attention to something that most people just overlook and let happen. I hope he does something soon to help those poor baby seals who are being killed just for their fur.
Posted by: Gisselle Marie at April 11, 2009 1:05 PMOh I hope this ends!
Posted by: Julia at April 11, 2009 1:06 PMDon't get me wrong, I agree 100% - but maybe we should start with the wolf slaughter going on in our own backyard (Alaska) first.
Posted by: Stacie at April 11, 2009 3:27 PMThats great that he supports peta and anti seal hunt.
Posted by: jamesmax01 at April 11, 2009 6:20 PMI love Peta
Posted by: Jimmy at April 12, 2009 2:21 AMI hope Obama's beeing honest, and that he really cares about this horrific situation.
If he does, then, definely he'll be the BEST president of the history, not like the stupid one we have in Mexico...
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that's awesome...i hope he sticks up for the seals now that he's prez and has way more power.
Posted by: cody at April 10, 2009 3:25 PM