Causes

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Noted fashion photographer and hunky America's Next Top Model judge Nigel Barker wants to save the seals. Barker, a spokesperson for The Humane Society, is trying to educate people about the horrors of seal hunts via a photography exhibit coming out on Friday. Why? "The way the seals are killed, and this is a fact, not a fiction, is that they are clubbed to death with a very blunt instrument or a hakapik, which is an extremely sharp spike at the end of a club. It's very, very brutal...People just have to realize the manner of killing them has been banned in a number of countries, but the Canadian government...when it comes animal rights, hasn't been very good." [Gothamist]