Tell Safeway Not to Sell Destructive Farmed Salmon
Salmon farms infect wild fish with parasites and diseases and escaped farm fish compete with wild salmon for food and habitat.
Last spring, a senior Safeway executive toured parts of British Columbia where scientists have linked sea lice from salmon farms with devastating population losses of wild pink and chum salmon runs. This spring conditions are worsening. Scientists are reporting that 80 to 90 percent of juvenile wild Pink salmon are carrying lethal loads of sea lice. Salmon farms need to clean up their act!
In spite of this information, Safeway is still selling this destructive product and has failed to encourage their suppliers to adopt more sustainable practices.
Tell Safeway to live up to their claims of corporate responsibility.
Quit selling farmed salmon that threatens the survival of wild salmon!
Dear Safeway,
It has come to my attention that Safeway is currently engaged in a dialogue with the Coastal Alliance for Aquaculture Reform regarding your sales of farmed salmon produced in open net-cages. As you know from the firsthand experience of your senior staff representative, open-net cage salmon farms are devastating wild salmon populations in areas like BC's Broughton Archipelago.
As a supporter of wild fish conservation I applaud your willingness to send one of your executives to investigate these impacts on your company's behalf. I hope that you agree that this problem is too significant to be ignored.
I strongly encourage you to make a commitment to stop selling farmed salmon until the industry adopts more sustainable practices. A policy commitment to phase out farmed salmon in order to protect wild salmon and ocean health would provide a concrete example of Safeway's leadership amongst progressive retailers. And your actions would be rewarded by the tens of thousands of individuals concerned about these issues that live and shop in the communities where your stores operate.
Please conclude this discussion by adopting a leadership position. Inform your suppliers that Safeway's stores are phasing out farmed salmon and will resume sales once more responsible production methods are in place. Encourage your suppliers, producing companies and governments to transition to more sustainable practices such as closed containment. Inform them Safeway will only carry this product in future if the industry changes its current harmful practices.
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I look forward to your response and am very encouraged to learn Safeway is giving serious consideration to this progressive step toward environmental sustainability.
Sincerely,
[Your name]
[Your address]
cc: Mr. Brian Dowling, Corporate VP Public Affairs
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