Exclusive: Ke$ha, Iggy Pop Fight "Barbaric" Baby Seal Clubbing in Canada
Ke$ha and Iggy Pop both agree on one thing: "Canada's club scene sucks!"
The 24-year-old pop star (real name: Kesha Sebert) and 63-year-old showbiz veteran (real name: James Newell Osterberg, Jr.) have joined forces with PETA to launch a global campaign against the clubbing of baby seals. UsMagazine.com has the first look at the singers' eye-catching new ads for the initiative.
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The annual clubbing of baby seals begins this week on the ice floes of eastern Canada; this campaign aims to combat the government's attempts to market baby seal fur internationally.
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"I was lucky enough to get to watch a bunch of wild seals recently and truly fell in love with these amazing creatures," Ke$ha said in a statement. "Canada gets to be host to harp seals each year during their migration to the ice to give birth which is beautiful and peaceful. But because the babies' fur is so soft, there are people who club and brutally kill these young animals. The Canadian seal slaughter is barbaric and archaic. My music and my fans are part of a movement of youth taking over the world with positive change. I know they’ll help me and PETA ban the Canadian seal slaughter so the only place you see baby seal fur is in a museum."
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Iggy Pop added: "Clubbing baby seals is sick and gives Canada a black eye. Don’t let the greed of a few tarnish the image of the whole country."
Prominent Canadians who have voiced opposition to the slaughter include Sarah McLachlan, Peaches, Bryan Adams, Pamela Anderson, and Ryan Reynolds, who penned a blog about it for the Huffington Post. But most politicians in Canada defend the seal slaughter because both the conservative and the liberal parties crave the region's seven swing seats in Parliament.
The two stars plan to encourage their fans to write in their own protest letters to Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper in Ottawa.
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10:-( Oh Iggy, how could you sell your soul to PETA? Are you really that desperate for cash? Seals are not clubbed anymore, that is very outdated information. Seals are shot in the head with a high powered rifle. Did you also know that the current estimate of harp seals of the east coast of Canada is 9 MILLION ! Can you imagine what that is doing to the fish stocks? Tell me, would you really rather people starve to death/have no income from fishing due to there being no fish left? Or would you rather see a few seals killed instantly with a rifle?
As a Canadian citizen, I am THRILLED that more people are taking a stance against this cruelty! It truly DISGUSTS me that our government agreed to sell seal meat to China because the Canadian market isn't good enough. Jerks! I hate governments.
http://.harpseals.org/index.php You have to put in the w,w,w before the dot harpseals because US is lame and won't let you post (god forbid) another website on here.
YES ! SOMETHING AMAZING ! GO KESHA!
why the hell am I seeing comments about abortion. This is an animal rights act not some Christian propaganda for the government to control what I do with my body. Save the seals
Although I see that everyone has a heart for a different cause... perhaps we all need to reassess the priorities of those. Today alone, thousands of babies will be aborted in a far more cruel ways than any seal could ever imagine... hundreds of thousands of children will die today from starvation, dehydration, and preventable diseases... and unknown masses of men, women, and children will die today due to conflict over oil, diamonds, and dirt. Fix the problems within the people and the issues surrounding them will disappear. And to those who feel like hen pecking my comment about aborted children... I have no interest in entertaining an argument. You won't change my mind and I'm pretty certain I won't change yours. Case closed.
I don't agree with this either but abortion is just as barbaric and that's a human.
it's like the more hurt we feed into animals, the worst off we are b/c our world is becoming sooo sad.
I agree Salem, it is very disgusting. Anyone who supports this has no soul.
They shoot them, club them, or flat out skin them alive. It's disgusting.