Hidden Camera Dislikes Seal Hunt

Hidden Cameras frontman Joel Gibb will be part of a new anti-seal hunt campaign that's being launched by People For The Ethical Treatment Of Animals (PETA).

Gibb will be featured on a poster that reads "Canada's Club Scene Sucks." It also reads: "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."

Gibb will unveil the poster outside the Ontario Legislative Building in Toronto's Queen's Park on Monday, May 4 at 12:30 p.m. He'll give a "short, unusual performance of his song 'Animals Belong Alone,'" according to a press release.

"As a Canadian who travels abroad a lot, I am embarrassed that our government ignores the concerns of the vast majority of citizens and even of leaders such as Putin and Obama," Gibb says.

"The greedy Fisheries Department, which runs this annual atrocity, is giving our whole country a black eye."

PETA and some other animal rights groups are opposed to the seal hunt because they claim it's an inhumane practice that causes cruelty to animals. Yet The Royal Commission On Seals And Sealing In Canada found that clubbing, when performed properly, is at least as humane as killing methods in commercial slaughterhouses.

The Canadian government also says it's an important economic boost for Canada's aboriginal peoples, who they say make about a third of their annual income from the seal hunt.

Also, no one seems concerned that if the seal population isn't culled every year, that seals will indeed take over the earth. But whatevs.

The Hidden Cameras' most recent album is 2006's Awoo.