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Write Letters to Politicians and Businesses that Can End the Seal Hunt

Harpseals.org provides contact information and automated emails for Canadian politicians and agencies as well as for businesses that are involved in the seal hunt or that can end the seal hunt.

Supermarkets and restaurants that we list here sell Canadian seafood. Help us urge them to join the boycott of Canadian seafood.

Let the Canadian tourist agencies and businesses know that you will not visit Canada or patronize their business until the seal hunt ends. Therefore we hope that they will pressure their representatives to ban the seal hunt.

We also list the fashion houses that have used seal fur in their designs. Please let them know that you will not buy any of their products if they use seal fur in their collections.

Please Note: Emails and contact information can change. If your email bounces back due to an incorrect email address, please let us know. Please also check the web sites that we list to see if new contact information is provided there.

"Mr. Speaker, I would like to see the six million, or whatever number is out there, killed or sold, or destroyed or burned. I do not care what happens to them. The fact is that the markets are not there to sell more seals. What they (the fishermen) wanted was to have the right to go out and kill the seals. They have that right, and the more they kill the better I will love it." - John Efford, former Minister of Natural Resources and MInister of Fisheries and Oceans

Restaurants, Supermarkets, and Food Manufacturers

Red Lobster

This large chain of restaurants may be the single largest importer of Canadian seafood in the world.

Mailing address:
Darden Group, 5900 Lake Ellenor Drive Orlando, FL 32809

Telephone: 1.800.562.7837

Web contact form: http://www.redlobster.com/contact_us/

Publix

This chain of over 800 supermarkets in the southeast U.S. sells a lot of Canadian seafood. The company claims that none of their suppliers is involved in the seal hunt. Harpseals.org believes this is hogwash (and not a legitimate way to participate in the boycott of Canadian seafood anyway).

Mailing address:
Publix Super Markets Corporate Office , Attn: Consumer Relations , PO Box 407 , Lakeland, FL 33802-0407

Telephone: 1.800.242.1227

Web contact form: http://www.publix.com/contact/SendUsAMessage.do

Other contact information for individual Publix consumer relations and corporate contacts:

Maria Brous: Corporate Initiatives and Trade Publications; Director of Media & Community Relations PO Box 407 Lakeland, FL 33802-0407 863-688-1188 ext. 55339 maria.brous@publix.com	Brenda Reid: GA, SC, TN, AL Media & Community Relations Manager 2600 Delk Road Marietta, GA 30067-6202 770-952-6601 ext. 3649 brenda.reid@publix.com	Dwaine Stevens: Orlando, FL; North FL; Southeast GA; Hilton Head, SC; Beaufort, SC Media & Community Relations Manager PO Box 2226-F Jacksonville, FL 32231-0084 904-693-6107 dwaine.stevens@publix.com
Kimberly Jaeger: Southeast Florida Media & Community Relations Manager PO Box 699030 Miami, FL 33269-9030 305-652-2411 ext. 3810 kimberly.jaeger@publix.com	Shannon Patten: Central FL Media and Community Relations Manager P.O. Box 32024 Lakeland, FL 33802 863-688-1188 x63486 shannon.patten@publix.com	William (Ed) Crenshaw: President of PUBLIX email (try these) ed.crenshaw@publix.com or william.crenshaw@publix.com

Kroger

Kroger operates 2,477 grocery retail stores in 31 states under nearly two dozen banners. Kroger holds the #1 or #2 position in 35 of its 44 major markets. Kroger holdings include Ralphs, King Soopers, City Market, Dillons, Smith's, Fry's, QFC, Baker's, Owen's, JayC, Hilander, Gerbes, Scott's, Pay Less, Food4Less, Foods Co, Fred Meyer, Fry's Marketplace, Smith's Marketplace, Kroger Marketplace, TurkeyHill, KwikShop, Loaf 'N Jug, QuickStop, and TomThumb.

Mailing address :
Kroger, 1014 Vine Street , Cincinnati, Ohio 45202-1100

Telephone: 1.866.221.4141

Web contact form: https://customer.kroger.com/comments/comments.aspx

Albertsons

There are over 1200 Albertsons supermarkets in the U.S. In 2006, Supervalu, CVS, and a Cerberus-led investment group bought Albertsons and split the stores up between Supervalue and the Cerberus group. Supervalu got most of the Albertsons stores and is now the third largest food retailer in the U.S. Supervalu also owns Lucky, Save a Lot, Scott's, Shaw's Star, Jewel-Osco, Shop 'n Save, Shoppers, Sunflower Market, and other chains. The Cerberus group also owns Super Saver Foods, among other chains. Their Albertsons division is now called Albertsons LLC. All these supermarkets sell Canadian seafood and have a great deal of purchasing power.

Albertsons Mailing address:
Albertsons, 250 E. Parkcenter Blvd., Boise, ID 83706

Albertsons telephone: 1.877.932.7948

Albertsons web contact form

Supervalu

Supervalue is the third largest food retailer in the U.S. See Albertsons above for more information.

Supervalu mailing address:
SUPERVALU Corporate Headquarters, 11840 Valley View Road, Eden Prairie, Minnesota 55344

Supervalu telephone: 952.828.4000

Supervalue web contact form: http://www.supervalu.com/sv-webapp/contact/contact.jsp

Walmart

Walmart has about 8,700 retail stores in 15 countries and had fiscal year sales of $405 billion in 2010.There are 2,882 Walmart Supercenters, with complete grocery stores, nationwide. The purchasing power of Walmart cannot be overstated.

Walmart Mailing address:
Walmart
702 SW 8th Street
Bentonville, Arkansas 72716-8611

Walmart telephone: 479-273-4000

Walmart web contact form

Ahold

Large chain of supermarkets and foodservice companies in U.S. and Europe, including Stop and Shop, Giant/Giant Food Stores, and Peapod in the U.S., and Etos, Gall & Gall, Albert, and Pingo Doce in Europe. This chain sells a lot of Canadian seafood and could help end the seal slaughter fast by joining the Canadian seafood boycott.

Mailing addresses:
Royal Ahold , Piet Heinkade 167 - 173, 1019 GM Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Telephone: +31 (0)20 509 51 00 Fax +31 (0)20 509 51 10
Nick Gale, Director, Issues Management: Tel.: +31 0 20 509 52 53
Kerry Underhill, Senior Vice President of Communications Tel.::+31(0)20 509 53 26

Stop and Shop

Telephone: 1.800.767.7772

Web contact form: http://www.stopandshop.com/about/contactus_cr.htm

Giant (Pennsylvania stores)

Mailing address: GIANT, P.O. Box 249, Carlisle, PA 17013

Telephone: 1.888.81.GIANT (1.888.814.4268)

Web contact form: http://www.giantpa.com/shareddev/GIANT_Comments/consumer_commentcard.cfm

Giant Food Stores

Telephone: (Washington Metro area) (301) 341-4322; Baltimore Metro area: (410) 995-4322 ; All other outlying areas in Maryland and Virginia: 1-888-4-MY
In New Jersey or Delaware: 1.888.My Super GIANT

Web contact form : http://www.giantfood.com/consumer/consumer_commentcard.htm

Costco Wholesale

Large chain of wholesale warehouse stores in U.S. and Canada that sells Canadian seafood and, in Newfoundland stores, also sells capsules of baby harp seal body fat as a "health food supplement."

Mailing address:
Costco Wholesale, PO Box 34331, Seattle, WA 98124
or 999 Lake Drive , Issaquah, WA 98027

Telephone: 1.800.774.2678

Web contact form : https://www.costco.com/CustomerService/EmailUs.aspx?secure=1

Delhaize America

Delhaize America operates over 1,500 stores in 16 states in the eastern United States. These include Food Lion, Bloom, Bottom Dollar, Harveys, Hannaford Bros., Kash n' Karry and Sweetbay.

Mailing addresses, telephone numbers and faxes:

Delhaize Group Support Office, Square Marie Curie 40, 1070 Brussels - Belgium, Telephone: 32 2 412 22 11, Fax: 32 2 412 22 22

Food Lion, P.O. Box 1330, 2110 Executive Dr., Salisbury, NC 28145-1330, Telephone: 704.633.8250, Fax: 704.636.5024

Hannaford, 145 Pleasant Hill Rd., Scarborough, ME 04074, Telephone: 207.883.2911, Fax: 207.883.7555

Kash N' Karry, Sweetbay Supermarket, 3801 Sugar Palm Dr., Tampa, FL 33619, Telephone: 813.620.1139, Fax: 813.626.5861

Harvey's Supermarkets, P.O. Box 646, Nashville, GA 31639, Telephone: 229.686.7654, Fax: 229.686.2927

Web contact form: http://www.delhaizegroup.com/bottomsectionpages/ContactUs/tabid/82/language/en-US/default.aspx

Gorton's of Gloucester

Gorton's of Gloucester is a subsidiary of the Japanese seafood conglomerate Nippon Suisan Kaisha, Ltd., producing fishsticks and other frozen seafood for the retail market in the United States and selling fish products to fast-food restaurants such as McDonald's. Estimated annual sales are $108 million. Gorton's sells some fish from Canada, including pollock and salmon.

Mailing address: Gorton's of Gloucester, 128 Rogers St., Gloucester, MA 01930

Telephone: 800.222.6826 Fax: 978.281.8295

Web contact form: http://www.gortons.com/contact.php

Tourism Agencies and Businesses

In addition to boycotting seafood, we urge you to avoid travel and tourism in Canada - and tell the government and tourist-related agencies and businesses about it.

Canadian Tourism Commission

The Canadian Tourism Commission's (CTC's) business is to promote tourism to Canada. It is government-sponsored and corporate-fed. Most noteable is its motto- "Discover our True Nature".... So, Harpseals.org suggests you do just that! Tell them you're not going to travel to or buy Canadian products as long as the senseless slaughter of seals continues.

Mailing address: Canadian Tourism Commission (CTC), Suite 1400, Four Bentall Centre, 1055 Dunsmuir St./Box 49230, Vancouver, BC V7X 1L2, Canada

Telephone: 604.638.8300

U.S. Leisure Marketing Department of the Canadian Tourism Commission

The U.S. Leisure Marketing Department states, "the CTC's marketing staff works with partners to position Canada as the premier destination of choice for U.S. travellers. Our aim is to encourage repeat visitation and to jumpstart word-of-mouth publicity." The U.S. is the second-largest source for travel expenditures in Canada and Canada’s largest single source for international visitors and expenditures.

"By capturing free editorial in U.S. print and electronic media, our team aims to present Canada as a fresh and sparkling destination–a Canada full of compelling experiences. Our aim is to create a buzz and make Canada a “bragging rights” destination with our target audience. Our Canadian partners are crucial to our success in the U.S. market. "

If you see one of the CTC's "free editorial" content in your local paper, please be sure to write a letter to the editor of the paper exposing Canada's "True Nature" - the bloody, cruel seal hunt they want to hide...

Magdalen Islands Tourism Association

Mailing address: Tourisme Îles de la Madeleine, 128, chemin Principal (corner Chemin du Débarcadère), Cap-aux-Meules, Quebec, Canada G4T 1C5

Telephone: 418-986-2245 or 1-877-624-4437

Fax: 418-986-2327

Email: info@tourismeilesdelamadeleine.com

Government Tourism Offices

Additional Tourist Contacts

For a 'reality tour' of Newfoundland and a long list of tourism-related contacts in Newfoundland and Labrador as well as the Magdalen Islands, Nova Scotia, and Norway, visit the anti-sealing website Touring Newfoundland and click on Things To Do. You will find automated emails here that are sent to lodging and tour companies in the sealing cities and provinces.

Politicians

Besides the fishing industry, is there any one force in Canada that we have to challenge more in order to stop the seal killing than the twisted political system? Canada's annual seal massacre is very political in nature and it's the men and women in office that make the laws and policies that we need to change. Newfoundland has a relatively large number of parliamentary members, and history shows that to be elected to office there, a politician must be in favor of the seal hunt.

Darin King

Fisheries minister for the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador. He is the man responsible for giving the Norwegian company, Carino, the main seal skin and blubber processor with a plant in Newfoundland, a $3.6 million loan. This has enabled the company to buy at least 100,000 seal skins in 2012.

Provincial Office
Petten Building
30 Strawberry Marsh Road
P.O. Box 8700
St. John's, NL
A1B 4J6
Tel: (709) 729-3705
Fax: (709) 729-0360
darinking@gov.nl.ca

Edward Fast

Minister of International Trade for Canada. He is likely to be the politician who is most concerned about the impact of the Canadian seafood boycott on Canada's exports.

Mailing Address:
Hon. Ed Fast
Room 105, East Block
Ottawa, ON K1A 0A6
Phone: (613) 995-0183
Fax: (613) 996-9795
E-mail: faste@parl.gc.ca

OR

#205 - 2825 Clearbrook Rd.
Abbotsford, BC V2T 6S3
Phone: (604) 557-7888
Fax: (604) 557-9918
E-mail: ed@edfast.ca

See below for automated email.

Keith Ashfield

Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, Canada, as of spring 2011. He is an MP from Fredericton, New Brunswick, and serves as minister of state for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency. He replaces Gail Shea, who in 2011, announced the largest seal killing quota ever, though she certainly realized that sealers would not kill a large percentage of this quota of seals due to both market and climate conditions. Shea also had the distinction of getting pied in 2010 for her promotion of the seal hunt.

It remains to be seen whether Ashfield will change course on the seal hunt.

Fredericton Office:
23 Alison Blvd (Main Office), Fredericton, New Brunswick, E3C 2N5
Telephone: (506) 452-4110, Fax: (506) 452-4076

Parliamentary Office:
House of Commons, Room 350, Confederation Building, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0A6
Phone: (613) 992-1067, Fax: (613) 996-9955

See below for automated email.

Stephen Harper

Prime Minister of Canada. Co-founder of Canada's Conservative Party. He has been unsympathetic to the plight of the seals and unapologetic about the seal hunt and the stain on Canada's reputation that it has caused.

Mailing address: Office of the Prime Minister , 80 Wellington Street , Ottawa , K1A 0A2, CANADA

Fax: 613.941.6900

Canadian Senator Anne C. Cools

Write to Canadian Senators to ask them to support Sen. Mac Harb's bill to end the seal hunt. Sen. Harb has introduced bills several times. In October 2012, one went to the floor for debate. It did not pass at that time.

Please also write to the Canadian Senators in protest of their report calling for a cull of 70,000 grey seals in another misguided effort to 'bring back the cod'. Time and time again, Canadian politicians ignore science and attempt to over-simplify ocean ecology to claim that fewer predators/competitors means more fish for Canadian fishermen. A cull of 70,000 grey seals represents the slaughter of 2/3 of the population of this region. Independent scientists and even DFO scientists call this plan folly.

Below are the Senators' phone and fax numbers and emails, too.

Help the grey seals.

Please send an email to Canadian politicians who are considering implementing the Canadian Senate's proposal to cull 70,000 grey seals in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence.

Please write to the following Nova Scotia and New Brunswick based seafood companies to tell them that you will boycott their products due to the killing of grey seals by Nova Scotia and New Brunswick fishermen.

You can also write to Canadian politicians regarding the proposal to kill grey seals on Sable Island. This proposal was subsumed under the new proposal for a 70,000 grey seal cull.

Here, you can send an email to the Senate Fisheries and Oceans Committee that has been considering a cull of grey seals.

Read more about this proposed massacre here.

European Government Ministers

The European Union has banned seal product imports. Use the link below to thank these EU ministers and urge them to stand firm as Canada and Norway try to overturn the ban via the WTO.

Namibian President

Namibia has an annual slaughter of about 80,000 Cape fur seals, mostly pups. This barbaric massacre is perpetrated for the sake of "employing" 100 unskilled workers for a few weeks. Write to the President to demand an end to this slaughter. Read more about it here.

Please also write to the Namibian SPCA to urge them to lend their support to the campaign to end the Cape fur seal massacre and to Hatem Yavuz, buyer of all Cape fur seal skins. Click here for the automated emails.

Ambassadors to the World Trade Organization (WTO)

The WTO will decide whether the European Union's ban on seal product imports violates free trade agreements. April 29, 2013 is the second hearing. Then deliberations of the WTO panel may take weeks to months before a decision is made. If the WTO does declare the EU import ban a violation of free trade laws or treaties, the European Union may still maintain the ban but pay a penalty.

We have three automated emails for ambassadors to the WTO from the United States, Canada, and Australia. If you are a citizen of one of these countries, please use the appropriate email message and let your representative know that you support the right of the EU to ban seal imports.

If you live in other WTO member states, please send a message to your country's WTO ambassador and/or send a message to your president or prime minister. Don't forget the power of Tweeting, too!

Fashion Houses and Seal Skin Processors

Several fashion houses have used seal pelts in their clothing lines. As this changes from season to season and year to year, they are considered boycott targets until they renounce the use of seal fur (and preferrably all animal skins).

We list contact information for the fashion houses that have used seal fur here.

Send a letter to Carino's parent company, G.C. Rieber. This company is currently the only seal skin processor.

Newspapers

Writing letters to the editors of local, university, and major national newspapers and magazines is an excellent way to spread the word about the seal hunt and the actions people can take to end it. These letters can reach tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people and provide as much or more information as a TV commercial or print ad. All for free.

Please take any opportunities you find to write these letters. You can write in response to articles on global warming, seals who stray to far away waters, Canadian tourism articles, articles on Canadian seafood or stores and restaurants that sell it, articles on marine mammals, articles on the oceans and over-fishing, etc.

Below is contact information for several Canadian newspapers. Those in Newfoundland will likely read by sealers. For a list of U.S. newspapers, one web site with an apparently thorough list is here.

The Globe and Mail

Canada national daily. Send letters to the editor here.

The Telegram

Newfoundland daily. Send letters to the editor here.

The Western Star

Western Newfoundland daily. Send letters to the editor here.

Montreal Gazette

Quebec daily. Send letters to the editor here.

Sample Letters

We provide sample letters for activists who would like to pen their own letters but need a jump start or ideas. Click here to see a few sample letters.