What's in your Bacon?
Personally I don’t think that the Danes would be so stupid to feed whale products to their pigs, especially with all the EU regulations after BSE. But what of the people involved in whaling? They knew that it would be illegal to export to the EU. Who is culpable?
Fishmeal is sometimes given to weaners in pig raising around the world including in Danish Bacon. So here are my hopes, in some sort of reluctant order;
1. The Icelandic export statistics are wrong (little chance me thinks).
2. The Danes rejected it, - sorry both export attempts (but see 3 below).
3. The Danes re-exported the products and they didn’t get into the country and the EU. However, why were there two exports?
a. The original small load (well 775kg) looks like a test to me, followed by the full delivery (22 tonnes) two months later?
b. That there were two exports makes me think that at least the first might have been successful, else why make the attempt at the second export?
4. If it got into the country, it was used for feeding mink on fur farms. This is what the Soviets used to do in the last century. Maybe the Danes have returned to that most repugnant of practices, supporting the killing of whales to maintain their fur industry.
5. It was used in fertilizer. Good grief, what was it used for? I for one don’t want to eat any products that it was used on. Does this mean Europe will end up boycotting all Danish food products?
Until the Danish Government stops supporting whaling and answers what the heck happened with these potential imports I think it might get interesting. We shall have to see.
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