The Pros And Cons Of Seals

Every year approximately 900.000 seals were killed on commercial slaughters, carried out primarily in Canada, Greenland, Russia, and Norway. In 2009 the Humane Society International organization began a campaign against such atrocity. That same year, the European Union decided to implement a ban on the importation and commercialization of processed or unprocessed, deriving or obtained seal products in response to public moral concerns about seals welfare.
Canada and Norway (complainants) filed a complaint to the Dispute Settlement Body of the World Trade Organization against the European Communities (respondents) claiming they were discriminating their producers, insisting their seals were killed ethically. Moreover, Canada argued that Canadian