The baby seals of the world, and especially those born in Canada, received a wonderful reprieve from the European Union last week when 550 members of the European Parliament voted to ban the trade of products made from seals throughout the EU member nations.
This will deliver a decisive blow to Canada's seal hunters as Europe is one of the last remaining markets for the products that are made from the seals that they slaughter each year.
The Humane Society of the United States has representatives that travel each year to the ice floes of Canada to report on Canada's annual seal hunt.
Each year, they invite lawmakers from around the world to come and witness the event in the hopes that it will lead to new laws protecting the seals.
This year, one such visitor during the 2006 seal hunt was Swedish Member of the European Parliament Carl Schlyter, who introduced the bill that led to the EU's seal product ban.
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