Ashley Cooper / Seal meat butchered by an Inuit man, Ilulissat, Greenland, July 2008.

Ashley Cooper / Seal meat in a bag on the quayside, Ilulissat, Greenland. The seal was shot by an Inuit hunter. July 2008.

Nature Picture Library / Whale meat for sale in a supermarket. The label on the top right with the blue whale tail indicates that this meat is from the southern hemisphere research whaling. As such, it is probably minke whale...

Eric Baccega / Nenet reindeer herders, eating bread, raw reindeer meat and tea inside reindeer skin tent. Yar-Sale district, Yamal, Northwest Siberia, Russia. April 2016.

Eric Baccega / Nenet reindeer herders eating raw reindeer meat and tea in reindeer skin tent. Yar-Sale district, Yamal, Northwest Siberia, Russia. April 2016.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Young Chukchi herder eating a morning meal of raw frozen reindeer meat. Chukotskiy Peninsula, Chukotka, Siberia, Russia, 2010

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Nenet herders drinking blood after killing Reindeer / Caribou (Rangifer tarandus) for food. Yamal, Siberia, Russia, 1993.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Khanty and Forest Nenets women eating raw Reindeer / Caribou (Rangifer tarandus) meat. Numto, Khanty Mansiysk, Western Siberia, Russia, 2000.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Nenets boy eating raw Reindeer / Caribou meat. Yamal, Siberia, Russia, 1993.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Nenets boy eating raw Reindeer / Caribou meat with a sharp knife. Yamal, Siberia, Russia, 1993.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Nenets herders gathering round to eat from the carcass of a Reindeer / Caribou (Rangifer tarandus) they have killed for food. Yamal, Siberia, Russia, 1993.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Reindeer / Caribou (Rangifer tarandus) carcasses from an autumn cull hanging at herders' camp. Yamal Peninsula, Western Siberia, Russia, 2001.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Table of traditional North Greenlandic foods: Greenland Halibut, Mattaq (Narwhal skin), eider duck eggs, dried narwhal meat, Arctic char, boiled seal meat & dried polar cod, Thule, Northwest Greenlan...

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Inuit hunter feeding raw seal meat to team of Huskies (Canis familiaris) while on hunt at Pitoraavik, Northwest Greenland, 1977.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Inuit elder eating raw liver. Qaanaaq, Northwest Greenland, 1971.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Inuit people sharing meal of muktuk (whale skin) and raw meat. Moriussaq, Northwest Greenland, 1987.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Inuit hunter feeding raw seal meat to his Huskies (Canis familiaris). Northwest Greenland

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Spectacled caiman with mouth full of raw meat {Caiman crocodilus} Llanos, Venezuela

Staffan Widstrand / Vasja Prokofiev, 17, eating raw reindeer meat, Nentsy, Kanin Peninsula, W Arctic Russia.