Photo: Inuit feed seal meat to European parliamentarians

Aaju Peter of Iqaluit serves a plate of fried seal meat to Bendt Bendtsen, a Danish member of the European Parliament, at an event held May 19 in Strasbourg, France, the seat of the European Parliament. A group called Inuit Sila stood at the main gate leading to the parliament for two days, serving seal meat to MEPs and entertaining them with music from a Greenlandic choir. Greenland’s seal product exports have dropped 90 per cent since the the European Parliament voted to ban the import of seal products into EU member countries. The event gained coverage from the BBC, the Guardian, Süddeutsche Zeitung and other European media. (PHOTO COURTESY OF INUIT SILA)