Thursday, September 25, 2014

Canned tuna: Greenpeace’s red card – Linformatique.org

By publishing a study entitled “What’s in your can of tuna? “Greenpeace gives a red card to the leading brands of canned tuna available in France.

While the tuna is one of the most fished species in the world, industrial tuna fishing is a form of industrial fishing maximizing catch, not to mention the over-exploitation. tuna-in-box-box-red-greenpeace

To raise the French to this problem, the NGO Greenpeace has published a study entitled “What’s in your can of tuna? “Ranked listing of the ten largest tuna brands in the French market, about 75% of sales in France.

This is based on information available on packaging and questionnaires addressing several aspects of the fishery, including the technique, the species, provenance or commitments that the NGO has prepared a ranking. The least one can say is that the overall result is unflattering, a true red card in this activity. D & # XE9; cover classification Greenpeace producers bo & # Xee; your tuna

Only Eckmühl lighthouse marks and U system is so honorably, including a majority of selective sourcing tuna from stocks in good condition.

For Carrefour, Auchan, Intermarket, Constable, Hot sauce, Small Vessel and Casino, the practice of destructive fishing overexploitation of stocks in bad states.

Bringing up the rear in this ranking, the Leclerc group is distinguished by not having bothered to respond to the survey of Greenpeace.

It is also worth noting that Small Vessel responded by saying “be extremely surprised to find that the information Greenpeace are not consistent with those we have provided them! “

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