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Old 25-11-2008, 01:11 PM
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Just thought I'd let you tuna eaters know. (I've got nothing against you)

In my Greenpeace mag today I read that John West and Princes brands, which together make up 60% of the market, are the worst at ensuring the fish they sell is caught using sustainable methods.

Here is a list of the best to the worst;

Asda, Tesco, CoOp, Marks and Spencer, Sainsbury's, Morrisons, Princes then John West.

So now you can choose wisely.
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Old 25-11-2008, 01:19 PM
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Where's Waitrose in there Coley? Us toffs like Tuna too LOL. Just kidding Thanks for the info
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Old 25-11-2008, 01:31 PM
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Where's Waitrose in there Coley?
Good point
Of course they also neglected to inform the peasants, Aldi and Lidle also weren't mentioned.
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Old 25-11-2008, 01:33 PM
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Re: Tuna

LOL Coley I'm surprised Sainsbury's aren't higher up their list.

EDIT; I'm also angered that Tesco aren't at the bottom- it'd give me another excuse to hate them

EDIT II; Hate them more...

EDIT III; ...and a bit more...
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Old 25-11-2008, 01:34 PM
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Where's Waitrose in there Coley? Us toffs like Tuna too LOL. Just kidding Thanks for the info
I think it is important to advertise those stores which are good, and Waitrose is good: their fresh fish is sustainably caught.
I presume that all tinned tuna come from the same sources so the answer there is simply don't buy tinned tuna.
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I agree that Waitrose is good! I was joking re: the toffs though
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Old 25-11-2008, 02:41 PM
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I agree that Waitrose is good! I was joking re: the toffs though
The late Alan Corin made a good quip about shopping snobbery: "The great thing about Tesco is that it keeps the riff-raff out of Waitrose!"
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Old 25-11-2008, 03:49 PM
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EDIT II; Hate them more...

EDIT III; ...and a bit more...
Every little helps.
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Old 25-11-2008, 03:51 PM
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"The great thing about Tesco is that it keeps the riff-raff out of Waitrose!"
Lol thats funny That makes me riff-raff
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Old 25-11-2008, 04:16 PM
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Just thought I'd let you tuna eaters know. (I've got nothing against you)

In my Greenpeace mag today I read that John West and Princes brands, which together make up 60% of the market, are the worst at ensuring the fish they sell is caught using sustainable methods.

Here is a list of the best to the worst;

Asda, Tesco, CoOp, Marks and Spencer, Sainsbury's, Morrisons, Princes then John West.

So now you can choose wisely.
Yes I read that too.
Waitrose have a good reputation for green issues on the whole and they do give local farmers a good go.
I have tried not to buy Albatross unfriendly/ Dolphin unfriendly tuna but it's not easy when some don't say what fishing methods are used.
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Old 25-11-2008, 05:23 PM
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LOL Coley I'm surprised Sainsbury's aren't higher up their list.

EDIT; I'm also angered that Tesco aren't at the bottom- it'd give me another excuse to hate them

EDIT II; Hate them more...

EDIT III; ...and a bit more...
My feelings exactly Nick!
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Old 25-11-2008, 07:29 PM
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Yes I read that too.
Waitrose have a good reputation for green issues on the whole and they do give local farmers a good go.
I have tried not to buy Albatross unfriendly/ Dolphin unfriendly tuna but it's not easy when some don't say what fishing methods are used.

Yes, but that's where we all have to do our thing (as if we hadn't got other things to do) - we have to write to the companies and ask where their fish (veg, meat, coffee ... ) comes from while stating that we won't buy from unsustainable sources. Until they state clearly and openly that they're doing it properly then we just have to abstain.

Say what you like about Tesco (and I do!) they do tell you which fruit/veg has been flown to UK. I don't buy it but then I don't buy from other companies which don't say (although I guess that beans from Peru may have been in an airplane ). So Tesco, in this case, are doing something helpful.
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Yes, but that's where we all have to do our thing (as if we hadn't got other things to do) - we have to write to the companies and ask where their fish (veg, meat, coffee ... ) comes from while stating that we won't buy from unsustainable sources. Until they state clearly and openly that they're doing it properly then we just have to abstain.

Say what you like about Tesco (and I do!) they do tell you which fruit/veg has been flown to UK. I don't buy it but then I don't buy from other companies which don't say (although I guess that beans from Peru may have been in an airplane ). So Tesco, in this case, are doing something helpful.
Hi Paul,
Yes, I agree and I did but sadly Sainsburys didn't have the grace to write back and that was about a year ago. Emails seemed to fall on deaf ears too.
I will however have another go and see what happens.
I'll keep you updated.
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Old 26-11-2008, 09:23 PM
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Yes, I agree and I did but sadly Sainsburys didn't have the grace to write back and that was about a year ago. Emails seemed to fall on deaf ears too.
I will however have another go and see what happens.
I'll keep you updated.

Hi all

if you follow the link you will see Green peace state the following....."All of Sainsbury's tinned tuna is now pole and line caught, making their own label the only brand surveyed that is entirely fished using sustainable methods. This gives Sainsbury's own label a clear edge over all the competition in our Tinned Tuna League."
"By only buying pole and line and hand-lined tuna, Sainsburys is fishing as sustainably as possible, but there are still overall concerns about the status of yellow fin stocks in the Indian Ocean from where Sainsburys is sourcing fish."

Heres the link to The Tuna League Table 2008.........

The tuna retailers league table 2008 | Greenpeace UK


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Old 27-11-2008, 10:08 AM
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That's more like it, thanks for that gess.
In the mag there was no real way of telling how things were in the league, I should have done a bit more research before typing anything. Still though, the named brands were at the bottom.
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Re: Tuna

Thanks for that link Gess

Neil and I don't often have tuna but at least we now know where to go to cause the least damage.
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Re: Tuna

Thought you might like to see this link re: mercury in Tuna.


ConsumerReports.org - Mercury in tuna 7/06

Worth mentioning here the risks involved.
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Old 29-11-2008, 09:39 AM
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ConsumerReports.org - Mercury in tuna 7/06

Worth mentioning here the risks involved.
There was a time when Pacific tuna was banned for human consumption I recall - due to pollution from Japanese factories (Minamata?).

But what goes around ......
Fears of mercury poisoning cast a pall on dolphin hunt in Japan - International Herald Tribune
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Hi,

Just read up on the mercury, first, didn't know there was such a thing as "light tuna", [must read the cans ! !], and second you've got to go some to eat THREE cans a week, does anybody ?

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Just read up on the mercury, first, didn't know there was such a thing as "light tuna", [must read the cans ! !], and second you've got to go some to eat THREE cans a week, does anybody ?

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mmmmmmmmmmm my mother makes the best Tuna & Banana curry! haven't had 1 in years
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Re: Tuna

This web site says that Americans eat 3lbs per head in a year. That comes to quite a lot of cans. The woman in the article eat a can a day and ended up with 10 times the safe limit of mercury in her blood.
This was albacore tuna, hence the expression "rotten to the albacore."

Why Mercury Tuna Is Still Legal
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This web site says that Americans eat 3lbs per head in a year. That comes to quite a lot of cans. The woman in the article eat a can a day and ended up with 10 times the safe limit of mercury in her blood.
This was albacore tuna, hence the expression "rotten to the albacore."

Why Mercury Tuna Is Still Legal
Groan

Perhaps shovelling mercury into USAmerican school children explains something about their intelligence.

Interestingly, since this thread started I've been unable to buy any raw tuna from Waitrose or Sainsburys where they normally stock line-caught fish.
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dont eat preditor fish full stop, much better to eat those fish lower down the food web
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