Table 1.
Qualitative summary of findings from analysis and literature on relevant aspects of the supply chains studied; green = advantage, yellow = small risk or lack of knowledge, red = disadvantage.
| Category | Danish Poultry |
Danish Pig |
Greenlandic Seal, Rifle | Greenlandic Seal, Net |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greenhouse gas emissions 1 | ||||
| Land use | ||||
| Animal welfare | ||||
| Marine resource use sustainability 2 | ||||
| Nutrition | ||||
| Pesticide use | ||||
| Contaminant risk 3 | ||||
| Antimicrobial use | ||||
| Food preference |
1 Excluding emissions from land use change which would affect pig and poultry, but not seal. 2 Greenlandic seal populations are sustainably harvested, fish used for fish meal for poultry/piglet feeds only partly. 3 The Greenland Board of Nutrition recommends continuing to eat traditional food but advises children, young and pregnant and nursing women against the consumption of older seals, toothed whales, sea birds and polar bears, due to the high level of contaminants [17].