How Europe’s ban on seal products turned frontier communities into pariahs
Some of the groups pushing the ban later reversed course, but the damage still endures.
September 8, 2021
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In the 1970s, a sustained campaign convinced much of the world that protesters were saving cuddly seals from murderous killers near the Arctic Circle. Before long, people around the world became accustomed to seeing images of hunters with clubs, looming over a fluffy white-harp seal pups.
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