Anti-whaling to the supermarkets

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Anti-whaling to the supermarkets

The Age

February 4, 2006

 

Environmental group Greenpeace is turning to consumer

power as it launches the second phase of its campaign

against the Japanese whaling industry.

 

After a highly publicised month-long chase of Japanese

whaling ships around the Southern Ocean the protest is

now focused on supermarket shelves.

 

Greenpeace spokesman Simon Bradshaw said the corporate

phase of the anti-whaling campaign would target

companies with major interests in the whaling

industry.

 

Australian consumers will be asked to boycott products

marketed by Sealord, a New Zealand-based fishing

company that is 50 per cent owned by the Japanese

company Nissui.

 

Nissui is a major shareholder in Kyodo Senpaku, the

company that owns and runs the Japanese whaling fleet,

and is responsible for packaging and selling whale

meat across Japan.

 

" The idea is to have consumer power put pressure on

Sealord to publicly state its opposition to whaling

and to (get Sealord to) use shareholder power to

persuade Nissui to cease its involvement in the

Japanese whaling industry, " Mr Bradshaw said.

 

Sealord markets canned and frozen fish products sold

primarily through Coles and Safeway supermarkets

across Australia.

 

The public awareness campaign will urge Australians to

take an active part in the battle against the whaling

industry and hopes to get 20,000 consumers over the

next month to contact Sealord direct with their

concerns.

 

The first phase of the campaign saw graphic images of

whale hunting flashed across the world as Greenpeace

filmed its Southern Ocean expedition dogging, delaying

and disrupting the Japanese whaling fleet.

 

The protest began on December 21 and closed on January

20.

 

" The first phase was successful but whaling is still

going on, now we want people who were disturbed by

those images to take an active role, " Mr Bradshaw

said.

 

Greenpeace Victoria volunteers will lobby shoppers

outside Barclay Square's Coles supermarket in

Brunswick in Melbourne's north.

 

In Sydney, activists will campaign in the Manly mall.

 

The protest will be picked up by Greenpeace members in

Adelaide, Canberra and Hobart next weekend.

 

Three members of the Southern Ocean expedition

including expedition leader Shane Rattenbury will pick

up the protest from February 8 when they visit

Melbourne, Sydney and Canberra to talk about the

group's anti-whaling efforts.

 

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