{"id":905,"date":"2017-11-30T00:22:28","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T21:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melindatrochu.com\/?p=905"},"modified":"2018-02-20T00:23:44","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T21:23:44","slug":"nunavut-n-w-t-and-greenland-team-up-on-european-politicians-to-promote-inuit-seal-skin-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melindatrochu.com\/?p=905","title":{"rendered":"Nunavut, N.W.T. and Greenland team up on European politicians to promote Inuit seal skin products"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Published on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/north\/bar-code-for-inuit-seal-1.4426776\">CBC North<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday in Brussels, Belgium, representatives from Greenland presented the European Parliament with the idea of a QR barcode to help consumers identify legal seal skin products. Northern sealing advocates from the N.W.T. and Nunavut were there to support the new initiative.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a barcode that you can easily scan that directs the consumer to a website in the EU that tells them that these products are exempted from the EU seal ban and they&#8217;re legal for entering into the EU,&#8221; explains Francois Rossouw, a fur marketer with the N.W.T. government who traveled to Brussels for the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Rossouw says people were supportive of the barcode.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was good to hear.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published on CBC North On Wednesday in Brussels, Belgium, representatives from Greenland presented the European Parliament with the idea of a QR barcode to help&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":906,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/melindatrochu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/melindatrochu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/melindatrochu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melindatrochu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melindatrochu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/melindatrochu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":907,"href":"https:\/\/melindatrochu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions\/907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melindatrochu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/melindatrochu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melindatrochu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melindatrochu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}