Rainbow's website promotes eating fish?!?

[Guest guest]

Rainbow Grocery's website has a section on their home page called "safe seafood" which has links to websites that make recommendations for eating fish.

http://www.rainbowgrocery.org/index.html#

 

Rainbow grocery is a vegetarian store but they are endorsing eating fish on their website.

 

Please click on the "Contact Us" section of their website located in the upper right-hand corner and let them know that there isn't any such thing as "safe" seafood. Ask them to at least include links to websites such as http://www.fishinghurts.com/ or http://www.pcrm.org/health/reports/fish_report.html

or any others that you know of to make this point to them.

Thanks.

Warren************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com

[Guest guest]

Thanks, Warren, for alerting us to this.

 

> Rainbow Grocery's website has a section on their home page called "safe seafood" which has links to websites that make recommendations for eating fish. > http://www.rainbowgrocery.org/index.html#

 

Just a reminder for everyone, you're always welcome to bring issues -- especially local ones like this -- to the letter writing parties, held both in SF and in Berkeley.

 

And you're especially encouraged to join us as we write letters.

 

10/28 Sundaes and Advocacy (rescheduled) - SF

11/20 Letter Writing Party - Oakland

 

Cheers,

Tammy

 

 

 

Bay Area Vegetarianswww.BayAreaVeg.org

 

[Guest guest]

hi all,i just peeped the site and it doesn't look to me like they're promoting that people eat fish. rather, it seems like they're being realistic that some meat-eaters (and i know many who do shop at rainbow) are going to purchase their fleshy products elsewhere. the guide they recommend is a good one and i think they are doing a service to provide people who aren't considering veg options to eat meat in the least harmful way possible. directly from their site:Safe Seafood

No, we haven't started carrying meat,

but here are some sites that can help you make informed choices about buying seafood(wherever you do buy it):

the Monterey Bay Aquarium >>

coopamerica.org >>

 

On 10/25/07, Tammy, BAVeg <

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Thanks, Warren, for alerting us to this.

 

> Rainbow Grocery's website has a section on their home page called " safe seafood " which has links to websites that make recommendations for eating fish. > http://www.rainbowgrocery.org/index.html#

 

Just a reminder for everyone, you're always welcome to bring issues -- especially local ones like this -- to the letter writing parties, held both in SF and in Berkeley.

 

And you're especially encouraged to join us as we write letters.

 

10/28 Sundaes and Advocacy (rescheduled) - SF

 

11/20 Letter Writing Party - Oakland

 

 

Cheers,

Tammy

 

 

 

 

Bay Area Vegetarianswww.BayAreaV

eg.org

 

 

 

 

-- M. Mello " I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights, for that is the way of the whole human being. " -- Abraham Lincoln

[Guest guest]

Hi all,

 

Just want to clear up some confusion.

 

, Warren's original post was a request to ask Rainbow to provide balanced information so that people really can make informed choice. He suggested links with another perspective of (not) eating fish.

 

The intent of my post was to say issues like that, which are important to veg*ns and to animals, are often topics at the monthly letter writing parties (LWP).

 

 

 

As to Warren's original post -- Since Rainbow is a vegetarian establishment, I agree, it does seem odd they would provide links to eating fish ("make informed choices about buying seafood"). As many customers know, the only meat sold at Rainbow is for cats and dogs. In fact, on their website, also say "we tend to think of animals as our friends" in their statement of why they don't sell meat.

 

http://www.rainbowgrocery.org/products/meat.html

 

I will remind them in my letter tomorrow that fish are "seafood". They are sea animals. I have found that "fish" is the one animal that a few pseudo-vegetarians still eat (fish is not a vegetable). And I recall one "vegetarian" restaurant changed their menu to add fish and was still promoting themselves as vegetarian (they are now out of business).

 

Hope to see some of you tomorrow at the LWP. Everyone is welcome, both land and sea animals! Dana does a great job organizing and bringing topics and all the writing supplies. Here's the link

-- we're meeting at MaggieMudd's.

 

10/28 Sundaes and Advocacy (rescheduled) - SF

 

Tammy

 

 

 

Bay Area Vegetarianswww.BayAreaVeg.org

[Guest guest]

> Please click on the "Contact Us" section of their website located in the upper right-hand corner and > let them know that there isn't any such thing as "safe" seafood.

 

Back in October, Warren alerted us to some info that Rainbow Grocery had placed on the homepage of their website. As I was reviewing all of the issues that I have written on at SF letter writing parties (LWP), I remembered that this was one of the letters that I penned at the November LWP.

 

I never heard anything back from Rainbow but I went and checked their website and they are not promoting "safe seafood" on the homepage anymore. And that's the best response :-)

 

So, thanks to Warren for letting us know about this and to everyone who contacted them. In fact, as some may recall from my recent post, they now show some of their employees sponsoring animals at Farm Sanctuary.

Cheers,

Tammy

 

 

Until he extends the circle of compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace. - Albert Schweitzer

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