FURY has erupted over a new business in Russia which is turning SEALS into sausages – in a bizarre bid to combat heart disease. Tens of thousands of animals lovers have joined a campaign to protest over the sale of the bangers, once used to feed inmates in Joseph Stalin’s notorious labour camps. Officials in […]
FURY has erupted over a new business in Russia which is turning SEALS into sausages – in a bizarre bid to combat heart disease.
Tens of thousands of animals lovers have joined a campaign to protest over the sale of the bangers, once used to feed inmates in Joseph Stalin’s notorious labour camps.
Officials in the Magadan region, on Russia’s Pacific coast, say the company has already killed 137 seals to produce other meat treats, reports the Telegraph.
“Such food wasn’t produced even in Soviet times. The meat of captured animals went for feed at farms raising Arctic foxes and mink,” the company said in a statement.
“But according to dietitians, seal meat possesses not only a good taste, but also nutritional value.”
The man behind the venture, Vasily Borisov, said his company also produced 10,000 cans of spotted seal meat and seal bacon in 2018.
He has now been given the green light by the Kremlin to start producing thousands of sausages and even seal pate.
Borisov claims his products clear respiratory passages, prevent heart attacks, lowers blood pressure and cholesterol and even help people withstand chemotherapy.
“I’m ready to provide seal fat to any kindergarten class, like in old times,” Mr Borisov reportedly told local officials.
“A spoonful a day, just like in our childhood.”
However, a Change.org petition addressed to Vladimir Putin – already signed by more than 160,000 people – says the production of the sausages is “immoral”.
“(Seal hunting) remains among indigenous peoples as a relic of their traditions. Commercial seal hunting has no place in the 21st century,” it said.
“Humanity in its relatively short history has brought too much misfortune to seals and marine mammals.”
Greenpeace has opposed commercial seal hunting while supporting traditional hunting by indigenous peoples.
