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| Illegal Icelandic whale meal exports into Denmark raises questions about the content of the Great British breakfast |
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| Saturday, 20 March 2010 09:47 | |||
Is Iceland trying to supply the Danish bacon, fur and farmed salmon industries with illegal whales through massive whale meal exports to Denmark? Just days after a shipment of whale meat illegally exported from Iceland was seized in Latvia, an even bigger haul of protected whale products processed into tonnes of animal feed may already be in circulation in Danish farms, says the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society. WDCS is calling on the Danish government, and relevant EU authorities, to mount an urgent and immediate investigation into the Icelandic exports and, if the whale meal reached the Danish market, to take all steps necessary to identify where the meal has entered the food chain. Iceland exported over 22 tonnes of ‘whale meal’ to Denmark in two shipments, in January and March 2009. Whale meal has been identified by the FAO as a replacement for meat and bone meal for pigs. Denmark is the world’s biggest supplier of pork products, with the UK a major market for its famous Danish bacon. Whale meal has also been identified as a possible component of feed for farmed fish... Source: WDSC 
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Illegal Icelandic whale meal exports into Denmark raises questions about the content of the Great British breakfast says WDCS
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