What makes the life of a seal and the products from them and the livelihood made by people upon them any different from that of any other animal that is slaughtered for meat and skin? (Cows for beef and leather).
It's just a bunch of pictures of cute animals and crimson pools of blood on pure white ice that is appealing to the irrational sense of some people. Have you seen all the blood inside a slaughterhouse/meatpackers? It's also an easy issue for career politicians in Europe to latch onto that has no impact and no downsides for them.
Seals are not endangered, they are breeding in massive numbers. It's the fish they are preying on that is probably even more important to humanity. Why no ban on fish products? If there's any environmental or ecological travesty - it's the global fishing industry which is fishing all the fish out of the oceans. The level of fish the ocean supported 100 years ago is something ridiculous like 80% more fish than there are now.
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