MPs to feast on seal

Canadian MPs will dine on seal meat to show solidarity with seal hunters wrestling with a European Union ban on seal products and the loss of a key market.

The parliamentary restaurant lunch tomorrow would "revolve around seal meat" beginning with hors d'oeuvre and followed by a three-course meal, said an invitation to journalists.

"Double smoked bacon wrapped seal loin" will be served with a "medley of organic beets, carrots and turnips", a "port reduction" and "Yukon gold potato pav", says the menu.

Canada slaughters up to 338,000 seals a season.