Critter News
MAY 5, 2009
From the press release: Euro-MPs have voted overwhelmingly for a total ban on the trade in seal products across Europe. A resolution at the end of a three-year campaign, triggered by a public outcry at the annual seal culls in Canada and Norway, condemned the slaughter of seals as "inherently inhumane".
Critter News
MARCH 3, 2009
But the bill still needs the the approval of the entire EU assembly and EU governments in order to become law. Tags: canada greenland europe seal hunters seals. It will be tough. Nordic EU countries such as Denmark, Sweden and Finland have opposed such a ban, and EU legal experts say it could violate world trade rules.
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