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SEALDOG's
Canadians aren’t the only ones who enjoy a bit of seal. The “sealdog,” pictured above, made its debut at the INUILI Food Academy’s Greenland Culture Night in Narsaq, southern Greenland, earlier this year. Seal meat’s taste is described as something between duck and calf’s liver. The flesh is fat free and is rich in iron and Omega 3. METRO Canadian parliamentarians dug into a meal of seal meat yesterday to defy both animal right activists and the European Union, which has banned imports of seal products. Some two dozen guests, surrounded on all sides by media, crammed into a small room off the main parliamentary restaurant to hear speeches backing the annual hunt off Canada’s east coast, which the EU says is inhumane. “This support begins on the plates of Canadians,” said federal Fisheries Minister Gail Shea as she prepared to eat three small medallions of double-smoked bacon-wrapped seal loin in a port reduction. The EU imposed its ban last year after a decades-long fight by what Shea called “misguided and mean-spirited” anti-seal-hunt activists. The seals are either shot or hit over the head with a spiked club called a hakapik, which critics say is cruel. All of Canada’s major political parties say they are in favor of the hunt, which takes place on ice floes in March and April. “The Europeans simply don’t know what they’re talking about. Since time began human beings have lived with animals and they have culled animals,” said Michael Ignatieff, leader of the main opposition Liberal Party.
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