Brussels, 05/05/2009 (Agence Europe) - With the electoral campaign in full swing, the European Parliament took a stance in Strasbourg on 5 May, with an overwhelming majority, for an almost total ban on the trade in seal products in the EU from 2010, thus bringing to an end years of controversy on a subject on which the European public is highly sensitive. The cruel killing methods and the pictures of suffering inflicted on seals at the time of slaughter, projected by animal welfare and...