(Note: also posted on the main Friends of Animals blog.)   Once again, theseal slaughter has begun on the East Coast of Canada, this year furtherspurred with a $3.6million dollar investment from the Newfoundland government, promising moremoney to those who opt to risk their lives on the diminishing ice floes. Thisyear, seal skins are estimated to be valued around $27, from an all-time low of$15 from 2010. Some in NL are leery, and even they’re admitting the numbersdon’t add up and that this is just aboondoggle.   Thanks to this cash infusion,there’s a very good chance we’ll see more seals killed than in the last coupleyears, so we cannot just sit back and hope this thing fades into oblivion – wecan expect tens of thousands of baby seals (they’re killed at about 3 weeks ofage) to be killed this year.   What can we do in Victoria? Letters, ofcourse, can…