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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!
It's a far better thing to raise price and deal with lower demand to have healthy salmons in the sea than to farm salmons that, while making salmons cheaper, pose such a danger to the environment as to disrupt and damage the ecosystem in the long run.
Safeway's goal is to provide high quality food and to ensure the customers' safety. As a leader in supermarket commerce, it can and should set the standards for keeping the customers eating safe and environmentally-beneficient food.
Imagine swimming around in water with a very high concentration of fecal matter and thus parasites. Now imagine adding that polluted water to our already hurting oceans, and declining wild salmon.
It is clear now that farmed salmon are hazardous to ocean health, wild salmon health, and human health. How many more reasons do we need? Show some integrity!
I like fish.
But not the risky type.
Farmed Salmon can have serious impact on wild salmon and should not be supported.
Safeway being one of Americas largest retail stores should not support salmon farming.
Everyone should read "Mad Cowboy" by Howard Lyman -- a cattle rancher who is now a vegetarian. He talks about the pollution of our food chain, all the way down to the fish. I will be vegan by the end of the month after seven years of vegetarianism.
When will businesses learn that they can make a huge difference in the education of their consumers AND preserve the earth for their own offspring? There is more to life than the dollar! Be responsible, encourage education, reduce/reuse/recycle.
Cancer risks for humans.
Health and environmental risks.
Doesn't sound good.
Risky.
Don't you think we eat enough toxins as it is.. enough is enough.
Fresh salmon is much healthier..period.. anything farmed is shot up with stuff.
Unacceptable cancer risks -- let the salmon live wild and healthy. . .let nature take care of its own.
It is immoral and just plain wrong -- set an example Safeway!
Farmed salmon is a health risk can cause cancer and other health related illnesses-plus the conditions the fish are raised in are deplorable.
Salfeway is a huge conglomerate and if they would take a step to show concern for the health of the millions of people who shop at safeway-what a difference that would make.
I would like to add a few more years to my 76. i will not buy farmed salmon from any store that sells same. i'll take my changes with mercury anyday.
If you would like me to continue shopping at your store when i travel, please stop selling farmed salmon. i will go out of my way to find a fish market that sells pacific or atlantic ocean caught salmon, or do with out.
Its wrong and unhealthy!
"Safeway" should sell safe products... no?
My concerns over the health impacts of farmed salmon include the increased risks of cancer; the danger of antibiotic immunity; as well as the dangers associated with genetic tampering.
Because its bad for our health & the health of our environment.
Why would I want to eat something that is deadly?
Safeway shouldn't sell farmed salmon because it is awful.
There are enough health problems already.
I think it's not a health-saving business!
We have enough health hazards without eating farm raised salmon.
Health issues, lawsuits.
I like fish but this news make me fear.
It is too risky. Human condition should be over Safeway's interest!
No.
Because they shoudn't.
I am more concerned with the environmental impacts. If it is unhealthy to eat maybe the problem will self correct.
Why not be an environmental champion?
As far as I'm concerned it isn't safe to farm salmon. Why would we wand something unsafe to eat?
They should care enough to protect their customers!
We need to start to let Mother Nature take care of our needs....we shouldn't mess with God's plans.
The health of their customers.
I'm always concerned.
They know dang well what to do.
Risks of disease, antibiotics, pesticides and harmful chemicals, do I need to say anything more... I won't eat farmed salmon or any other farmed fish. I ask if it is, Then I tell them to keep their deadly farmed fish, and if they don't know I don't eat it.
"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." What do you think?
WHAT IS OUR GOVERNMENT DOING TO PROVIDE US W/AN ENVIRONMENT THAT IS CLEAN---WHO WANTS FARMED SALMON---WHY AREN'T THERE MORE PROTECTED AREA'S FOR NATURAL GROWTH---HAS THE FDA BEEN BOUGHT OUT BY FISH FARMERS NOW??? WHY DOES THE FDA PROMOTE THINGS THAT ARE LETHAL TO US--- DOES ANYONE OBJECT TO THE WAY OUR GOVERNMENT USES "OUR" MONEY?????????
WHO WANTS ANTIBIOTICS IN FISH, HOW ARE THEY RAISED, WHAT BENEFIT IS A FARMED ENVIRONMENT TO US, WHY ARE FARMED FISH MORE INFECTED W/LICE, WHY ARE THEY ALLOWED TO SPREAD DISEASE TO FISH IN OUR ENVIRONMENT---WHY DO "WE ALLOW" THE GOVERNMENT TO USE "OUR MONEY" FOR PROJECTS THAT "WE DON'T" BENEFIT BY???
If farmed salmon is that unsafe, then why isn't the FDA doing something about it? That is what they were originally created to do and what they get paid for. Again, our government has chosen to go with big business and sell out the people that put them in office.
This is a heads up Safeway. My suggestion is that if you want to get the upper managements attention, you boycott all stores that sell farmed salmon. Not just Safeway and not just farmed salmon.
Farmed salmon is not the nutritional equal to wild salmon and creates dangers to wild salmon.
Selling farmed salmon just encourages the very bad practice of farming salmon.
I don't know what farmed salmon is doing to my health: how it has been bred and raised. I would rather eat salmon that comes straight from nature.
The store could be causing people to get cancer, when all it has to change is to sell wild salmon! How simple is that?!?
It is evident that there are serious health risks in eating farmed salmon.
You know damn well why.
Farmed salmon, like farmed cattle is cruel.
Safeway would benifit from taking a positive stand on this issue.
Ther has to be something that you can do to insure the safety and quality of the products your co. puts on the market.
It's a no brainer....don't sell food that is killing people.
I think people should be very careful of what they eat. I don't eat fish or red meat.
People should be aware of the risks they take eating farmed salmon.
Not only are there not health benefits from eating farmed salmon (i.e., no omega fatty acids...), but the farmed salmon is a health issue for the out-lying ecosystems that are affected by water drainage containing antibiotics from the farms.
Please see the above comment.
I think anytime money is more important than people it's sad... But the value on our lives are nothing!! So we must act and let them know we count!
I think if Safeway,doesn't stop selling the unsafe Salmon,stop going there...Perhaps they should change their name to Un-SafewayFoods.
Because of the negative effect on human and environmental health.
Why would Safeway want to sell a product that endangers the health of it's customers? Perhaps Safeway shoppers should ask themselves that question before they decide where to do their grocery shopping.
I think people need to become more aware of the things they are eating.
Most people do not know about the risks of eating farmed salmon. Help them out by not selling the fish!
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.
With the known human health concerns & environmental risks it is totally unacceptable. If Safeway continues to sell farmed salmon they are telling the world (THEIR CUSTOMERS) that they could care less about the people they sell to or the planet we live on and that their only concern is the mighty dollar. LOSE THE FARMED SALMON SAFEWAY.
Antibiotics used in raising farmed salmon impact both consumers and the environment negatively.
See previous comment.
There are so many things that cause cancer, we don't need another one.
If there is a chance that it will cause cancer, you should not sell it.
It has a negative affects on the environment.
We cant have farmed salmon anymore it '=messes up the ecosystem.
It increases risk of human cancer.
If Safeway is at all concerned about human health (since I know it is not concerned about the environment), it would not sell farmed salmon because it is toxic and can cause cancer.
I will not buy farmed salom because of the health risks to my family, they could have diseases and make us sick, besides it's not fair to the fish. Fish should be caught not farmed like corn.
Safeway is taking the easy way out and endangering our health.
Human Health Concerns: A study released in the respected journal, Science. in January 2004 conducted a thorough analysis of farmed and wild salmon , 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 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.
In light of these concerns and recent findings, it is difficult to understand how major retailers like Safeway continue to stock farmed salmon. I care about my health and the environment, please support our environment. Safeway, I won't buy farmed salmon until these health and environmental concerns have been met!
Endangering the wild populations of salmon and other ocean animals, not to mention the oceans themselves. Protecting our environment benefits everyone and everything on the planet.
Contamiinated food is not good for anyone.
"farmed" salmon, trapping animals, feeding them and making them nice and fat, then killing them, that would make these people savages in my eyes.
There is no need to farm fish, if you want it that bad, go catch them yourselves and stop being so spoiled!
This is an important issue and requires immediate attention.
Knowingly contributing to health hazards diminishes your desirability as a retailer of food products.
It is not good to have fish farmed. If the conditions in the wild are not duplicated exactly, there are always going to be problems and we have enough things that cause cancer without growing more.
I will not buy anything that endangers the health of my family.
Please, we do not need farmed salmon.
No.
Infecting wild salmon!
Humans can survive quite well without consuming salmon, least of all Farmed salmon. If humans did not demand salmon to be available all year round, safeway would not see a profit in selling it! Go and catch your own salmon in the wild if you must eat it!!!!!!
Concentrations of unknown chemicals and elements due to unenforced or non-existant regulations.
Larger chains such as Safeway have the ability to effect change by not providing commercial outlets for products that require change. By acting to stop selling farmed salmon, Safeway stands to make a noticable impact on the farmed salmon industry.
We need to protect our families from pollutants.
I think the concept of farm raised salmon started out well, but the environment in which they are raised has become more polluted.
Nobody would like to eat fish that could be a danger to his/her health !
It is a risk to the environment, farmed salmon could escape into the wild and transfer certain kinds of diseases to the wild fish ! Not to mention the chemicals and pesticides that are washed into the ocean !
Dont eat animals!!!!
Dont eat animals!!!
There are already too many products being sold as "food" in stores we humans should not be eating. If it can't be done right...don't do it.
Safeway or any other corporation for that matter should not seel products they "know" may not be safe and don't have the nutritional values needed to be used by our bodies.
I don't want to buy or consume salmon that could pose health risks to me or my family.
I poses health risks to consumers.
A little thing called Cancer.
Life is short enough; endangering people needlessly is unacceptable. Besides, it's bad for business when the customers die.
It's both a cancer risk and an environmental risk.
It's both a cancer risk and an environmental risk.
It just ain't natural.
Stop exploiting nature.
I am concerned that you are compromising our opportunities for healthy living by providing farmed salmon.
You surely know the health risks.
I love to eat fish, but I don't want to die from it.
Surely Safeway can find a healthier source of salmon for their paying public.
Health and enviromental impacts. Let's protect the WILD salmon then we won't have the need to FARM them. If the Bush administration would STOP blocking recovery efforts of the Pacific Salmon (destroy dams that block their migration) we wouldn't have this problem.
For health and environmental reasons, I refuse to purchase farm raised fish of any kind. It's simply unclean and threatens the livelyhood of WILD fish.
Farmed Salmon are improperly cared for, living in cramped quarters away from a natural state of life. If they are allowed to enter Ocaen waters to breed, they attack Natural Wild salmon, d/t their horrible habitats as young fish.
It causes cancer.
Mecury poisoning does irreversable harm to living creatures.
Food that contaminates the human body should not be sold in stores.
Liver damage.
Health reasons.
They are too numerous to state-everything from the air and water pollution, to the way in which the fish are "raised" in cramped conditions. This is scientifically known to cause extreme environmental damage.
People should believe it what they purchase and who it comes from. The choices we make t o buy is sometimes the only way of showing support or protest to certain practices. Sustainability should be on the minds of all of us and certainly corporations that last for generations.
I am definitely not all too willing to buy my death.
Only the very few uneducated consumers will buy your toxic salmon and only when the salmon is wild and pure will I buy from safeway.
Farmed salmon is risky for those who ingest it. Adding color to make it look like natural salmon is awful.
Safeway should be concerned about their customers well-being and should not sell products that may be and are !!at risk.
This type of fishing is poisoning to humans!
It is unsafe to eat!
Maybe our governmental officials should eat it....I do not condone factory farming of any animal, mammal, scaled, finned, feathered at all!!!
Because they are not controlling the diseases, mercury or other hazards in factory farming salmon.
It is bad for the Salmon,it's bad for the ecology,it's bad for humans AND it takes jobs away from fishermen!
It's BAD for BUSINESS !
The overuse of antibiotics in the salmon farming industry has to stop.
Safeway should not sell farmed salmon because of the high environmental costs involved in farming salmon, such as water pollution, habitat destruction, disease.