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Let Safeway know you won't buy farmed salmon!
Target: Stephen Burd, Chairman, President and CEO, SafewaySponsored by: Coastal Alliance for Aquaculture Reform (CAAR)
Human Health Concerns
In what is considered the most thorough analysis of farmed and wild salmon to date, a study released in the respected journal Science in January 2004 found that, in most cases, consuming more than one serving of farmed salmon per month could pose unacceptable cancer risks, according to United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) standards for determining safe fish consumption levels.
Environmental Risks
Recent research published in the internationally renowned Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences revealed that the number of sea lice on young wild salmon is higher in areas near salmon farms. The report demonstrated a link between sea lice from fish farms and the decline of certain wild salmon stocks in Canada's Pacific Ocean.
Salmon farming poses risks of disease transfer to wild fish and escapes of farmed salmon into the wild. Waste from the farms including antibiotics, pesticides and harmful chemicals are released into the ocean. Often fish farms are located directly in areas where First Nations or other communities object.
In light of these concerns and recent findings, it is difficult to understand how major retailers like Safeway continue to stock farmed salmon. If you care about your health and the environment, please sign this petition to send a free fax to Safeway. Tell Safeway that you won't buy farmed salmon until these health and environmental concerns have been met!
Unhealthy food should be everyone's concern.
I'd like to not die from eating.
Its a mess!!!
Be responsible
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i hope it stops soon
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Health is more important than dollars.
Corporations need to remember the humans, and the environment.
We gotta knock it off w/ all this Frankenfood stuff...
Screwing around w/ nature's dangerous to everyone.
I have discontinued my practice of eating salmon or any fish that is farm raised.In spite of its dietary value, the health risks are not worth taking a chance.
I believe that Safeway and all markets should be required to reveal the health risks to the consuers who at present don't seem to have a clue !!!
I will not eat poisoned fish and I do eat a lot of seafood.
Why insist on poisoning the environmentand your customers?
Unhealthy and lacks flavor.
Fish farms are detrimental to our environment.
On the one hand we are told to consume more fish products, but then we are told that too much consumption is harmful because we are eating "farmed" fish. This practice of farming salmon seems to make it much less desirable for both health and environmental negative factors.
Because it is detrimental to our health to consume farmed salmon. In view of this, I am amazed that Safeway would continue to purchase these products.
I am surprised that with all the health problems meat and fish poses more people do not become vegetarians.
Not only because of the health aspect but also the cruelty aspect farmed salmon is unacceptable
I can choose not to eat this product because of the misuse of antibiotics and hormones, but I cannot reverse the damage done to our oceans and the ecosystem. We cannot continue to destroy our environment for money and think we can live without it, it is our life.
It symbolizes that profit is the main concern and not your customers.
Please be a watchdog in helping to protect your consumers!
Please stop supporting this gross farming method!
Waste products from farmed salmon pollute the oceans and threaten wild species. Antibiotics and other additives threaten human health also.
It is environmentally irresponsible and a threat to the consumer to support the farmed salmon industry.
Tainted !!!!!!
Would buy it NEVER or any thing else in you store now.
THIS MASS PRODUCTION OF SALMON IS NOT OVERSEEN PROPERLY AND CAUSES DISEASES IN THE FISH!!
THEY'RE PASSING ON DISEASED FISH WHICH CREATES OUTBREAKS OF SICKNESS AMONG THE CONSUMERS-PERSONALLY, I BOYCOTT THESE STORES!!!! I DO NOT LIKE THEIR "DO NOT CARE" ATTITUDE.
It's not clean or safe.
Because it's unsafe and pollutes the water and makes everything unsafe and sick.
Not healthy.
Safeway should not be selling farmed salmon because it has been proven that it endangers our health.
Difficult issue here-depleting wild salmon vs. the health risks associated with farmed fish-hmmmmm.
Difficult issue here-depleting wild salmon vs. the health risks associated with farmed fish-hmmmmm.
very unhealthy!
promotes cruel treatment if there is such a demand from markets
my concerns are not only for humans, but our wonderous oceans.
we should not have to tell safeway why they should not sell farmed salmon,after all the powers that be should already know.if not, they should be replaced.
This is self-evident.
Safeway needs to be responsible to the consumer.
potential health concern in terms of the use of antibiotics & long term effects on humans
as above
Cancer causing agents found in the fish
it is endangering the health of unaware shoppers while safeways makes more money
"We, the people" need to add our voice to those calling for an end to global ignoring of the extinction of species and poverty; through conservation and not supposed sceince.
"We" can urge our fellow Americans to fully commit to fighting that process, which leads to humanities' extinction, around the world. "We" need to be a part of the ONE Campaign to make the world better and safer for all, the evolution. Viva la evolution!
Pesticide flavored salmon, mmmmmm mmmmmmm forget it and forget you if you sell salmon. We don't want the diseases your spreading.
Salmon farming also poses risks of disease transfer to wild fish and escapes of farmed salmon into the wild. Waste from the farms including antibiotics, pesticides and harmful chemicals are released into the ocean. And don't send me no letter saying that you're know about it and have taken precautionary measures. Write me when you've stopped selling stocked salmon.
NOT Healthy
Unfair to consumer. Be responsible!
why even do anything jepordizing your health , and our environment's health?
safeway should be committed to making sure they sell quality products.
Just as poultry are warehoused dosed with antibiotics and unable to roam, likewise are farm-bred salmon raised, loaded with toxins and dosed with chemcals same. And just as incarcerated chickens are more disease laden unlike their free-ranging cousins, so too are those salmon, without benefiting from free-ranging, healthy and sans any antibiotics!
It's junk food, loaded with poisonous materials and a ready-made cancer product! Because your food chain is peddling toxic farmed seafood to maximize profit potential, irregardless of future damage inflicted on unsuspecting consumers!
We used to eat a lot of farmed salmon before these studies were available. We do not now, especially because I have an immune disorder. However, our concerns go beyond this immediate issue.
It is NOT healthy to eat. Simple.
i want to know why farm salmon, such a good idea, whent so wrong. i am concerned for my health, and that of our food chain, they are directly related, after all.
when the large grocery corporations support unhealthy practices, they do us all a diservice. i found fresh, wild, ocean salmon at Raleys supermarket today, for the first time in a year i ate salmon. Rayleys has a new costomer. me.
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there is plenty of other fish in the sea, or are there?
there is plenty of other fish in the sea, or , maby not
Why would Safeway want to sell a product that puts people health at risk?
If Safeway doesn't care about customers health, they should think about their reputation.
Antibiotics are fed to farmed salmon in such vast quantities that when people eat farmed salmon, antibiotic residues are passed to them, increasing their risk of developing antibiotic-resistant bacteria and reducing the effectiveness of certain antibiotics for curing human illness.
Safeway will discontinue selling farmed salmon if they intend to avoid an international boycott of Safeway stores for polluting the environment and for PCB poisoning of their customers. PCBs and dioxins, found in farmed salmon, can cause cancer, high blood pressure, strokes, immune-system problems and reproductive disorders. These chemicals can also affect normal development in children.
The cancer risks are just too high.
Ditto
Too many studies show the health risks that come from eating farmed salmon. Not worth the risk!
Because Safeway should not knowingly stock items that cause harm to its customers.
unhealthy
unhealthy
Afraid of the concentrations of carcinogens in farmed salmon meat
Wild salmon is safer and healthier. Aquaculture poses multiple threats to the environment as well as health risks to humans
Unhealthy! Unhealthy!! Unhealthy!!! As they saying goes, it is not wise to fool with Mother Nature because when you do, things go bad. Guess what? That is the story with farmed salmon!
It is unsafe, and inhumane to the salmon. I will not shop at your store until the farmed salmon are removed.
Hey, if people are too stupid to ask where their food comes from, then let them get sick!
Because it's socially and environmentally irresponsible.
bad for me, my kids, and the planet
corporations should think LONG TERM about what is best for their customers and their future world
because I don't want to buy farmed salmon.
because I don't want to buy farmed salmon.
It possesses a health risk in a world with far too many health risks already.
Consumers are not aware of the health risk and it is Safeways responsibility to not pass it on to unassuming customers.
PCB, heavy metals and other contaminants......I don't need to spend money on products that deliver more toxins to my system and the environment and other living beings in and out of the food chain.
Selling farmed salmon supports the industry that is producing low quality food that is carrying high risks for us and the environment. I'd like to see you show that you care, Safeway.
There are some things that were never meant to be farmed, and salmon is one of them!
Safeway is a major player in the salmon market, and it has an ethical responsibility to not promote destructive practices!
We need to keep our food healthy & this is not!
They should offer their customers the best product.
I love eating salmon, but no longer eat farmed salmon. The health risks are just too high and well documented.
Because i will stop shopping at Safeway altogether if they continue to stock this dangerous product.
The high cancer risk associated with consuming farmed salmon makes it an unacceptable commodity on the retail food market. It's like asbestos -- the consumers think they're getting a better and more affordable version of something they're familiar with, only to find out years later that they've invited a Trojan Horse in.
The Safeway brand is trusted precisely because the company is known for its concern for quality. Carrying farmed salmon with all its associated health risks and negative environmental impact will erode public trust and damage Safeway. The health issues, specifically the cancer risk, could even trigger litigations.
Bad stuff for someone concerned about what goes into their body.
It's proven to be bad by experts and that's all that matters.