PETA Asks Greenpeace to End Its ‘Sustainable Seafood’ Initiative and Join New, 2021-Style ‘Save the Whales’ Campaign

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October 25, 2021

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Washington – Greenpeace’s “sustainable seafood” initiative threatens whales’ meals provide, pollutes their ocean houses, and kills a whole lot of 1000’s of whales, dolphins, and porpoises every year once they grow to be tangled in misplaced or deserted fishing gear—so PETA is asking Greenpeace to drop it. PETA can also be inviting Greenpeace to affix its launch of a 2021 model of the environmental group’s personal landmark 1975 “Save the Whales” marketing campaign—a brand new, progressive tackle the unique, calling on everybody to cease consuming fish altogether and allow them to get pleasure from their aquatic life, unmolested. This afternoon, the group despatched a letter to Greenpeace Co-Government Director Annie Leonard with its proposal.

Within the letter, PETA factors out that unintended deaths in fishing gear are the only greatest risk to the survival of lots of the world’s 86 cetacean species and that consuming sea life contributes to the decimation of ocean ecosystems—regardless of how the animals are caught.

“Simply as nobody against whaling would ever eat whale meat, immediately’s environmentalists don’t eat fish,” says PETA Government Vice President Tracy Reiman. “PETA hopes to work with Greenpeace to advocate for a very sea animal–pleasant, actually respectful, and actually sustainable, vegan approach of consuming.”

PETA—whose motto reads, partly, that “animals should not ours to eat”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For extra data, please go to PETA.org or observe the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.

PETA’s letter to Leonard follows.

October 25, 2021

Annie Leonard

Co–Government Director

Greenpeace USA

Pricey Ms. Leonard:

Greetings from Folks for the Moral Therapy of Animals (PETA). We respect your work! I’m writing to offer you a heads-up that we’re launching a “Save the Whales” marketing campaign, with our concentrate on the best risk to whales—the fishing trade. I’m positive you don’t must be advised that greater than 300,000 whales and dolphins die after changing into tangled in fishing gear every year. Because of this, we’re urging individuals to cease consuming fish—all fish. In mild of this and Greenpeace’s personal mission to “promote options which can be important to a inexperienced and peaceable future,” we now have a request: Please, will you rethink your “sustainable seafood” marketing campaign, as the one factor sustained is the struggling of marine life, and urge your supporters to go vegan? The details are indeniable.

The world’s main cetacean scientists imagine that the unintended demise of whales, dolphins, and porpoises in fishing gear is the only greatest risk to the survival of lots of the world’s 86 cetacean species. Discarded fishing gear causes great ache and extended struggling for whales who grow to be caught in fishing nets and could be dragged for miles, proscribing their motion and exhausting them till they drown. Nonetheless, on Greenpeace’s “Save the Whales” web page, not one of the three listed actions that folks can take to avoid wasting these animals mentions ending the consumption of fish and different sea life—we’d like to see you add that straight away. That is essential data for individuals to know if they really wish to assist whales, and never selling this data deprives your supporters of an necessary step that they will take to avoid wasting lives.

We tremendously respect Greenpeace’s coverage of getting solely plant-based meals for occasions, however the promotion of “sustainable seafood” and fishing sends the message that it’s in some way acceptable to go fishing and eat fish, when it isn’t. We all know that main meals firms and firms use buzzwords like “humane” and “sustainable” to draw individuals who care about animals and the setting when, in actuality, these industries are doing hurt, not good. Consuming any fish or different sea life contributes to the decimation of the ocean’s ecosystem.

The one sustainable sorts of seafood are vegan variations of the originals. That’s why the vegan seafood trade is booming and ever extra individuals are consuming fishless filets from manufacturers corresponding to Gardein and Good Catch, meatless tuna from Worthington and Jinka, and a lot extra—as a substitute of sea life. With so many scrumptious vegan seafood choices out there immediately, it’s easy for members of each our organizations in addition to different members of the pubic to go for wholesome, humane cruelty-free choices that don’t hurt whales or anybody else. It’s additionally the moral selection for any environmentalist and anybody who doesn’t wish to be merciless.

PETA can be completely happy to assist by providing assets to your web site and extra. We do hope Greenpeace will embrace this transfer.

Sincerely,

Tracy Reiman

Government Vice President