Montreal-based journalist Taras Grescoe’s book, Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood (Bloomsbury), based on a nine-month investigation of the aquaculture industry, is both illumination and frightening. Climate change, pollution, and unregulated practices of fishing and fish farming industries could all have dire consequences for seafood and those who consume it. [...]
Archive for April, 2008
Bottomfeeder author to speak May 12
Posted in Events, Publications, tagged Bottomfeeder, Elliot Bay, Taras Grescoe on April 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Hazel Wolf Environmental Film Festival THIS WEEKEND!
Posted in Events, Video, tagged Brazil, Environmental Justice Foundation, Hazel Wolf Environmental Film Festival, It's All A Lie, Shrimp Farming on April 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Please join us on Sunday, May 4, at 1 pm for this special screening of the short video “It’s All a Lie.” Come learn about the threats posed by shrimp farm development, and the communities fighting to protect their land and livelihoods in Northeast Brazil. Immediately following the screening there will be a question [...]
CNN Video on Alleged Worker Abuse
Posted in Consumer Info, Shrimp Processing, Video, tagged Bangladesh, labor, shrimp, Solidarity Center, Thailand on April 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
CNN’s Zain Verjee on the Solidarity Center’s 3-year labor investigation report suggesting Thai and Bangladeshi shrimp often come from factories that abuse workers. Includes Thai police video footage of raid on shrimp processing plant and interviews with Solidarity Center director, U.S. State Department rep, and Thai and Bangladeshi ambassadors. Time: 3min 44sec. (photo from Solidarity [...]
The True Cost of Shrimp
Posted in Publications, Shrimp Processing, tagged Bangladesh, human rights, labor, shrimp, Solidarity Center, Thailand, Wal-Mart, worker rights on April 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In the $13 billion seafood processing industry, workers pay the price for consumer affordability. This report, from the Solidarity Center’s ‘Degradation of Work’ series, uncovers pervasive worker and human rights abuses in the shrimp processing industry in Thailand and Bangladesh, such as low-wage sweatshop conditions, use of child and forced labor, and global supply chains [...]
Upcoming Events
Posted in Events, Mangrove Action Project, tagged Eat Local Now, Hazel Wolf, Seattle University, sustainable seafood, Vancouver Spot Prawn Festival on April 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The campaign will be participating in many exciting events happening this spring, so mark your calendars!
Tuesday, April 29th: Panel Discussion and Slide Show about Sustainable Seafood
Seattle University, noon.
For more information, contact eli@mangroveactionproject.org
Tuesday, April 29: Eat Local Now! Annual Dinner
Ballard High School, 6-9 PM
This year, Eat Local Now! will raise awareness about farmland flooding issues [...]
Great turnout at Seattle Green Festival!
Posted in Consumer Info, Events, Mangrove Action Project, tagged Green Festival, Seattle Green Festival, shrimp on April 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Thanks to everyone who came by the MAP table at Seattle Green Festival last weekend, where we kicked off our awareness campaign against imported shrimp! At this 2-day “party with a purpose,” we joined forces with other socially and environmentally responsible organizations and businesses to celebrate—and inspire–the movement toward a sustainable future, which is thriving [...]
Film on Shrimp Farming at Hazel Wolf Environmental Film Festival – May 4
Posted in Events, Shrimp Farming, Video, tagged Bahia, Brazil, Caravelas, Ceara, Environmental Justice Foundation, Shrimp Farming, Video on April 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s All a Lie (10 min, UK)
In September, 2007, Environmental Justice Foundation investigators visited Caravelas, Bahia State, on the NE coast of Brazil where a proposal for a shrimp farm the size of London’s Heathrow airport would turn coastal forests into a virtual wasteland, destroying sustainable livelihoods and threatening marine habitats. The film illustrates the [...]
Visit MAP at the Seattle Green Festival, April 12-13
Posted in Consumer Info, Events, Mangrove Action Project, tagged Green Festival, Mangrove Action Project, Seattle on April 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Join us for this 2-day party with a purpose!
Come celebrate what’s working in our communities — for people, for business and for the environment. You’ll enjoy more than 150 visionary speakers, great how-to workshops, interactive kids’ activities, delicious organic cuisine and diverse live music. Shop in our extensive green marketplace of more than 300 exhibits [...]
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