Jimmy Buffett doesn't have to worry about the interpretation of GATT Article XX(g) or the chapeau. He can just take matters into his own hands:
Margaritaville Cafés, restaurants owned by Jimmy Buffett, will no longer serve Canadian seafood until Canada ends its annual slaughter of seals, according to a statement issued by the world-famous musician, who signed on to The Humane Society of the United States’ Protect Seals seafood boycott in September. The HSUS launched the seafood boycott in March 2005 and asks consumers and restaurateurs to avoid Canadian seafood as a way of ending the annual seal hunt.
“Margaritaville Cafes will not be purchasing or serving Canadian seafood products until the Canadian government ends the commercial seal hunt permanently,” says Jimmy Buffett in his statement. “I do not look at this as one nation telling another how to best manage its affairs. I view it as an effort to make humans more humane in the way they manage the planet. We do not own the earth. We are landlords and we simply need to do a better job, for all creatures on this earth.”
UPDATE: It's not just the older generation of musicians -- Pink has gotten into the act as well:
Pink is not one to let the wool to be pulled over her eyes—or over her body, for that matter.
The pop star has teamed up with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals to urge a boycott of the Australian wool industry in an effort to halt the controversial practice of "mulesing," in which farmers cut skin from around the rear ends of sheep to prevent fly infestations.
Pink, whose real name is Alecia Moore, serves as the narrator of a graphic PETA video about the practice, which shows workers using shears to snip skin folds from the backsides of struggling sheep.
The practice is meant to create scar tissue that prevents a painful and often deadly condition called fly strike, but animal advocates argue that there are more humane methods of fighting the condition.
"The wool trade uses methods so sadistic that it makes you consider clearing your closet of any animal products," Pink states in the video.
"I am calling on consumers to check labels on sweaters before buying them, and if they're merino wool or made in Australia, to leave them on the racks."
Pink also called for a ban on live exports, citing the inhumane treatment of sheep that were shipped to foreign ports for slaughter.
