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Sustainable Seafood Rankings: 4 Supermarket Chains Pass Greenpeace’s Review

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Posted: December 9, 2008

The environmental advocacy group Greenpeace ranked the nation's 20 leading supermarket chains in June after assessing how well each adhered to ocean-friendly policies in its marketing of seafood. All 20 failed Greenpeace's review. Now, in a new review that takes into account small but significant changes in some chains' policies, Greenpeace has a little good news to report: Four chains passed the test, indicating that they generally sell ocean-friendly seafood. Those four are:

1. Whole Foods Market
2. Ahold USA (which owns Stop & Shop and Giant)
3. Target
4. Harris Teeter

Other supermarket chains again failed Greenpeace's evaluation. They're ranked here from best (barely failed) to worst.

5. Wal-Mart
6. Safeway (Dominick's, Genuardi's, Randall's, Von's)
7. Wegmans
8. Kroger (Baker's, City Market, Dillon's, Owen's, PayLess, Ralph's,
Scott's, Smith's, Quality Food Center)
9. Aldi
10. Costco
11. A&P (Food Emporium, Pathmark, Super Fresh, Waldbaum's)
12. Giant Eagle
13. Publix
14. Winn-Dixie
15. Delhaize (Bloom, Food Lion, Hannaford Bros., Sweetbay)
16. Supervalu (Acme, Albertson's, Bristol Farms, Jewel-Osco, Shaw's)
17. Trader Joe's
18. Meijer
19. H. E. Butt (H.E.B., Central Market)
20. Price Chopper

(Caveat: U.S.News & World Report has not independently reviewed Greenpeace's methodology.)

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CallyMortigan of AL @ Jan 19, 2009 16:06:10 PM

Yo Adrian, I hope your being sarcastic, I think Mark is wrong

Troublesome diversity? God made the Earth diverse for a reason. I'm sick of Christians badmouthing environmentalists. I'm a Christian and I happen to care about the Earth a lot,just like God does. God loves all creatures great and small. The only material gift God gave us was the Earth, and now we are destroying it. Christians should be the biggest environmentalist of any people group.

Dan of WA @ Dec 20, 2008 02:11:05 AM

Human Life is HIghest Value

Mark,
You are so correct. Therre is no doubt that a truly rational economy will emerge when the biosphere is finally exhausted of it's troublesome diversity. I eagerly await that sweet gray day when all life that matters is human and we base our nutrition and recreation on our utility and trade of the convenient lower order 'slime species'. Life will be so much richer for having eliminated the other pesky players of the ecosystem who really don't 'produce' anything at all do they.
Humanity will forget it's tiresome attachments between diversity of habitiat and life forms as some handle of value.
Bring on the 'good life' I say.

Adrain Bruyn of CA @ Dec 16, 2008 09:47:08 AM

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