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Keep Tuna Safe for Our Families and for Dolphins
Target: Environmental Protection Agency
Sponsored by: Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund
Sponsored by: Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund
More than half of the tuna consumed by American families comes from non-U.S. producers. But some of these producers -- particularly in Ecuador and Mexico -- use practices that can hurt or kill dolphins and catch tuna with increased mercury levels.
In the Eastern Pacific Ocean, large, mature yellowfin tuna often swim with pods of dolphins -- a relationship that's exploited by some commercial fishers using purse-seine nets that ensnare tuna and dolphins alike. Since the late 1950s, approximately seven million dolphins have died from this practice.
The practice poses an obvious risk to dolphins, but the large tuna that swim with dolphins often contain the highest levels of mercury. So this practice not only harms dolphins, it also poses a risk to people who are unlucky enough to eat tuna caught in such a manner.
Send a message to the Environmental Protection Agency and Food and Drug Administration to improve mercury testing so we can keep tuna safe for our families and for dolphins.
In the Eastern Pacific Ocean, large, mature yellowfin tuna often swim with pods of dolphins -- a relationship that's exploited by some commercial fishers using purse-seine nets that ensnare tuna and dolphins alike. Since the late 1950s, approximately seven million dolphins have died from this practice.
The practice poses an obvious risk to dolphins, but the large tuna that swim with dolphins often contain the highest levels of mercury. So this practice not only harms dolphins, it also poses a risk to people who are unlucky enough to eat tuna caught in such a manner.
Send a message to the Environmental Protection Agency and Food and Drug Administration to improve mercury testing so we can keep tuna safe for our families and for dolphins.
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We signed the “Keep Tuna Safe for Our Families and for Dolphins” petition!
# 76,050:
12:45 pm PDT, Jul 13,
Erwin Birk, Texas
The ones who are causing this and the ones who do nothing about it, put their family pets in those nets and the poison tuna on the dinner plates for their children and families. How fast would things get done!
The ones who are causing this and the ones who do nothing about it, put their family pets in those nets and the poison tuna on the dinner plates for their children and families. How fast would things get done!
# 76,049:
12:30 pm PDT, Jul 13,
Oksana Becker, Virginia
# 76,048:
10:26 am PDT, Jul 13,
Miraslava Askins, Missouri
# 76,047:
4:43 am PDT, Jul 13,
Hiriya Moosa Manik, Maldives
# 76,046:
11:16 pm PDT, Jul 12,
Paige Malott, Georgia
# 76,045:
6:20 am PDT, Jul 12,
Judy Renko, Florida
# 76,044:
5:53 am PDT, Jul 12,
Ana Marie Spencer, United Kingdom
# 76,043:
5:18 am PDT, Jul 12,
Tanja Foršek, Slovenia
# 76,042:
1:43 am PDT, Jul 12,
Lauren Flamm, Pennsylvania
# 76,041:
10:47 pm PDT, Jul 11,
Katherine Costantino, California
# 76,040:
6:35 pm PDT, Jul 11,
Kimberly Lynn, California
keep tuna safe for our families and for dolphins :)
keep tuna safe for our families and for dolphins :)
# 76,039:
2:19 pm PDT, Jul 11,
Kirra Perlow, Hawaii
# 76,038:
6:54 am PDT, Jul 11,
Lene Thrane, Sweden
# 76,037:
12:38 am PDT, Jul 11,
Sandra Bryce-Borthwick, South Africa
# 76,036:
11:05 pm PDT, Jul 10,
Ariel Pasquarello, Delaware
# 76,035:
2:27 pm PDT, Jul 10,
Christina Edmonds, Maine
# 76,034:
11:44 am PDT, Jul 10,
Laurel Watson, Arizona
# 76,033:
6:13 am PDT, Jul 10,
Patrick Ronan, Ireland
# 76,032:
3:09 am PDT, Jul 10,
Robert Stroud, Ohio
# 76,031:
2:40 am PDT, Jul 10,
Montserrat Bonhora, Spain
# 76,030:
8:56 pm PDT, Jul 9,
Nicole Bruno, Florida
# 76,029:
7:27 pm PDT, Jul 9,
Julie Prough, Pennsylvania
# 76,028:
7:14 pm PDT, Jul 9,
Elsie Frazier, Idaho
# 76,027:
6:45 pm PDT, Jul 9,
Cathie Caskey, New York
# 76,026:
12:39 pm PDT, Jul 9,
Jennifer F, Virginia
# 76,025:
12:16 pm PDT, Jul 9,
Stephanie Larini, California
# 76,024:
11:09 am PDT, Jul 9,
Jennifer Wilson, Tennessee
# 76,023:
8:28 am PDT, Jul 9,
August Sanders, Massachusetts
# 76,022:
4:56 pm PDT, Jul 8,
Monica Drexler, Sweden
# 76,021:
12:55 pm PDT, Jul 8,
Quinn Kelly, New Jersey
# 76,020:
12:09 pm PDT, Jul 8,
Kimberly Snow, California
# 76,019:
11:24 am PDT, Jul 8,
Jillian Blume, New York
Dolphins symbolize freedom and joy, they have saved people's lives countless times, they are intelligent and social. Not only is the tuna packaged by the industry potentially poisonous if eaten too often, but it has caused the death of millions of dolphins. There has been no attempt to develop efficient methods to fish without killing other animals, and no serious attempt to clean up the oceans. People have largely stopped eating tuna because it is currently unhealthy. Stop killing dolphins and clean up the oceans!
Dolphins symbolize freedom and joy, they have saved people's lives countless times, they are intelligent and social. Not only is the tuna packaged by the industry potentially poisonous if eaten too often, but it has caused the death of millions of dolphins. There has been no attempt to develop efficient methods to fish without killing other animals, and no serious attempt to clean up the oceans. People have largely stopped eating tuna because it is currently unhealthy. Stop killing dolphins and clean up the oceans!
# 76,018:
7:25 am PDT, Jul 8,
Michael Schwartz, California
# 76,017:
5:10 pm PDT, Jul 7,
Carrie Simms, Arizona
# 76,016:
1:19 pm PDT, Jul 7,
LILIAN BLUMENTHAL, Brazil
# 76,015:
12:31 pm PDT, Jul 7,
Niarica Lubatti, Italy
# 76,014:
10:55 am PDT, Jul 7,
Susan Wease, Texas
I will not eat tuna again until this practice stops, and I will encourage everyone I know to stop eating Tuna. Why are people so inhumane? We need to eat, but how we get our food shows what kind of a people we are, and some of us are subhuman.
I will not eat tuna again until this practice stops, and I will encourage everyone I know to stop eating Tuna. Why are people so inhumane? We need to eat, but how we get our food shows what kind of a people we are, and some of us are subhuman.
# 76,013:
10:42 am PDT, Jul 7,
Maria Grazia, Peru
# 76,012:
1:57 am PDT, Jul 6,
Ester Jackson, Germany
# 76,011:
8:23 am PDT, Jul 5,
Penny Katirgis, Cyprus
# 76,010:
6:50 am PDT, Jul 5,
Naomi Dutch, California
# 76,009:
10:16 am PDT, Jul 4,
Laura Sonnleitner, Canada
# 76,008:
1:46 am PDT, Jul 4,
Laura Gathercole, United Kingdom
# 76,007:
7:27 pm PDT, Jul 3,
Hanna Hyland, Canada
# 76,006:
4:45 pm PDT, Jul 3,
Allyson Coco, Pennsylvania
# 76,005:
2:39 pm PDT, Jul 3,
Tim Cartwright, California
# 76,004:
2:17 pm PDT, Jul 3,
Tara Sweeney, North Carolina
# 76,003:
1:11 pm PDT, Jul 3,
Lucy Mansell, United Kingdom
# 76,002:
12:06 pm PDT, Jul 3,
Name not displayed, North Carolina
# 76,001:
11:46 am PDT, Jul 3,
Sera Onishi, New York