Paul Greenberg Reports on Your Local Fish-Eats This Summer
Award-winning author,
Paul Greenberg, of
American Catch and
Four Fish, comes out with a new book called,
The Omega Principle: Seafood and the Quest for a Long Life and a Healthier Planet. He is an expert in Marine Conservation, a current Pew Fellow and the Writer-in-Residence at the Safina Center. Greenberg spends his time traveling the world and working with many institutions to educate and advocate on topics of sustainable fishing and consuming. Read his recent Civil Eats article here.
Since 2015, when the
AP traced companies in Sea To Table’s supply chain to unscrupulous foreign companies that operate without any oversight or concern for human or environmental protection; we have seen a g
rowing awareness around issues of slave-labor and overfishing, but we simply must now stop there.
Some workers said they were ordered to pull in as many sharks as they could catch and slice off their fins, which are a delicacy in Asia. The bodies were tossed back into the ocean, a practice banned by many countries.
Civil Eats highlights some of the big questions we face as consumers. What is human life and marine life worth to us? What and who exactly are our dollars going towards? Whether you eat animals or not, the current conditions of this rogue fishing-industrial-trade complex is appalling… Carl Safina, an award-winning author and leading marine conservationist at New York’s Stony Brook University, said companies that prey on consumers’ good intentions “deserve to be out of business immediately.”
Cornucopia, WI — “The widely respected and leading organic breakfast foods manufacturer, Nature’s Path, announced the company’s resignation from membership in the Organic Trade Association (OTA), a prominent and increasingly controversial lobby group representing business interest in the industry. The announcement came in a letter to the organic community last week.
 Arran Stephens, Co-CEO, Nature’s Path The OTA has been increasingly criticized for representing the interests of corporate agribusiness at the expense of core values held by farmers, consumers, and founding business leaders.“Our departure from the OTA is an act of protest to raise awareness of our concerns that the important role organic plays in support of the health of consumers and our planet is being compromised,” said Arran Stephens, a company founder and co-CEO. Read the full report here. |
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