A northern Swedish deli has achieved the seemingly impossible by offering several varieties of sausage that claim to contain up to 125 percent meat. Read the full story

Iceland’s annual ptarmigan hunting season begins today; despite diminishing numbers of the grouse-like bird. Read the full story

There are indications that the import duties charged to companies importing meat to Iceland may be unlawful. Read the full story

The Association of Organic Consumers in Iceland has criticised the country’s agriculture industry at a conference this week. One of the group’s board members said in a speech that it is all-but impossible to buy chicken, pork and eggs which were not raised intensively on factory farms. Read the full story

A Swedish man has complained to the country’s Consumer Agency about a sausage product that claims to contain 104 percent meat. Read the full story

Striking food workers in Finland have sent the purchasing public scurrying across the border to Sweden for supplies. Read the full story

The Swedish Consumers’ Association has joined politicians in criticising the government’s approval of thrombin, known colloquially as ‘meat glue’, claiming that the public could be misled about the properties of the product. “We do not want this at all – it is meat make-up,” said the Association’s Jan Bertoft. Read the full story

In Denmark, an increasingly high number of pigs are arriving at slaughterhouses with visible injuries caused from being beaten with planks and chains. Read the full story

Since October last year, Denmark has suffered two big outbreaks of salmonella poisoning from Danish sausages. Four people have died as a result of eating ‘medister’ sausage, and at least 79 have been hospitalised with stomach infections, according to the national disease control centre Statens Serum Institut. Read the full story

On a recent trip to Nuuk, the capital of Greenland, IceNews staff members took time out from their busy schedule to conduct some useful consumer research. The results were surprising to say the least.

Greenland and Iceland are both island nations which import large amounts, including food. Iceland is an independent nation, while Greenland is an internally self-governing nation within the Kingdom of Denmark – a situation Iceland was also in before declaring independence in 1944.

With its smaller population, cooler climate and extra distance from mainland Europe, Greenland is often considered more expensive than Iceland. But not when it comes to meat, apparently.

Comparing prices of beef in Nuuk’s Brugsen supermarket (a co-operative owned by local people) to those in Reykjavik’s Kronan low-cost supermarket, list prices and discount prices were both found to be consistently similar, with Nuuk slightly cheaper for some products.

Prices for whale meat and reindeer were also found to be relatively equal between the two cities.

IceNews would like to thank the reporters at Atuagagdliutit / Gronlandsposten for all their help and friendly advice in Nuuk.