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An overwhelming majority of Europeans want new laws to ensure the food they eat and the products they buy don’t drive global deforestation

The Don’t Buy From Icelandic Whalers campaign has reacted with dismay to the news that Icelandic company Hvalur will resume fin whaling and with scepticism to the news that Hvalur has sold its shares in seafood giant HB Grandi to another major Icelandic seafood company on the eve of a major fishing industry exposition

An alliance of 13 leading conservation groups is this week urging major buyers at Europe’s biggest seafood trade show not to do business with Icelandic seafood company HB Grandi because of its strong links to whaling

Banning the use of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) – super greenhouse gases used in refrigeration – in supermarkets would be one of the cheapest and most effective ways of reducing greenhouse gases in Europe, we told a conference, calling on EU states to push for ambitious measures in the review of the F-Gas Regulation

Animal welfare and conservation groups are advising major seafood buyers attending the 2013 European Seafood Exposition and Seafood Processing Europe Convention in Brussels to be aware that there are whalers in their midst, and that the seafood they are considering purchasing may be “tainted by the blood of whales”