article_snippet.sent: The blood of hundreds of baby seals has stained the pristine white snow of Canada's ice floes as the world's largest annual marine mammal slaughter begins.
article_snippet.sent: Cruel: Images show the animals - who are eventually skinned for their fur - being shot and wounded on the thin ice before being dragged (pictured) onto vessels .
article_snippet.sent: Chilling: The seals who do not die from the gunshot wounds are dragged onto ships (pictured) where The seals who do not die from the gunshot wounds are clubbed to death .
article_snippet.sent: Inhumane: Some seals die from the gunshot wounds while others escape into the water where others slowly die from others injuries (bottom)
article_snippet.sent: Blood-stained: Once The baby animals (pictured) are shot, sealers retrieve the bodies by impaling the bodies with a sharpened hook (pictured) which forces the seals that are still alive to violently thrash out .
article_snippet.sent: Cruel: The images HSI took from a helicopter above Newfoundland's ice floes show sealers (pictured) pulling the seal's blood-stained carcasses onto The images HSI ship .
article_snippet.sent: The baby animals (pictured) thrashing in pain as The baby animals (pictured) are pulled across the blood-stained snow while others are seen impaled on the boat's deck.
article_snippet.sent: We saw one baby seal clearly raise her head from the massive pool of blood her lay in.
article_snippet.sent: Another was shot and thrashed on the ice only to slip into the blood-slicked water. '