Seafood (page17)

Seafood, With a Side of Confusion

The current boycott of Chilean sea bass is being aggressively promoted by organizations like SeaWeb (the perpetrator of the earlier “give swordfish a break” campaign), the National Audubon…
Posted July 15, 2002 at12:00 am

Times Plays Up Sea Bass Silliness

Last week, The New York Times ran a puff piece on the “Take a Pass on Chilean Sea Bass” campaign, an effort to persuade restaurants to remove…
Posted June 6, 2002 at12:00 am

Fish Fight

The cooked-up campaign against seafood hit The New York Times this week, with the leading paper covering an “effort to save imperiled sea bass.” More than “200 prominent…
Posted May 22, 2002 at12:00 am

Fishing For A Story?

CBS News ran a scare story on what anchor Dan Rather called “super salmon” last week — “the fish that’s genetically altered to grow to full size much more…
Posted May 14, 2002 at12:00 am

Fish Story

The “Take a Pass on Chilean Sea Bass” campaign will roll into Washington, D.C., tomorrow, at which time anti-seafood activists will reveal a list of more than 60…
Posted May 7, 2002 at12:00 am

Hook, Whine, and Sinker

“Is Chilean sea bass an endangered species? No.” So say the U.S. Departments of State and Commerce in a March public fact sheet, noting, “Chilean sea bass is gaining a…
Posted April 4, 2002 at12:00 am

Fish Under Fire

Seafood is under attack on a number of fronts, as activists lay the bait of deception to reel in consumers and force them to change the way they eat:…
Posted March 7, 2002 at12:00 am

Bass Bashers

As we reported last week, anti-food activists have launched a campaign to “convince” grocery stores to stop selling Chilean sea bass, a popular seafood selection picked by Bon Appetit…
Posted February 25, 2002 at12:00 am

Activists Fishing For Attention

Packard Foundation-funded SeaWeb, and other activist groups, want you to take the fish off your dish. They say all sorts of favorite seafood selections — “cod,…
Posted February 21, 2002 at12:00 am

Fish Stories… With A Catch

If you enjoyed a bit of caviar on New Year’s Eve, you’re a bad, bad person. That’s the message SeaWeb is sending. Says SeaWeb’s executive director, Vikki…
Posted January 3, 2002 at12:00 am