Trade and Culinary Adventures: EU, Canada and Seals
But Andree Garcia, the owner and chef of Les Iles en Ville, says the EU ban has been “great advertising” - and as a result has moved up seal dishes from occasional specialities to a daily regular.“Seal has become extremely popular since everybody started talking about it,” she said. “We have Canadian diners who want to support the seal industry and we have tourists who had never heard of it before. We get a lot of customers from Europe and they all want to taste seal.”
I’m guessing that most trade disputes—even highly publicized ones—don’t have this aspect, where the dispute increases the demand for the product in dispute. I just have one question at this point: Does it taste like chicken?
