Whale meat snacks seized at German trade fair
Source: The Guardian
Whale meat snacks seized at German trade fair
Philip Oltermann in Berlin
theguardian.com, Friday 24 January 2014 11.24 GMT
German customs officials have confiscated whale meat being sold as bite-sized snacks by a Norwegian stall at a trade fair celebrating trends in food, agriculture and gardening.
The stall's supervisor, Arne Andreas Rød, said he was surprised to hear the sale of whale meat was "meant to be illegal here". He claimed his team had been able to take the food through customs without problem. "We wanted to showcase Norway's variety," he told the Berliner Zeitung newspaper.
The meat is illegal in Germany and the majority of the EU.
"Norway is breaking the law in several ways here," said Astrid Fuchs of the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society. "Both the import and the sale are illegal."
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