Consumer Rights
Progressive Grocer: Hannaford Hit With Class Action Over Sustainability of Its Salmon
“When retailers like Hannaford falsely tell customers that industrially farmed products from seafood conglomerates are equally sustainable to local catch from independent fishers, they help maintain corporate seafood giants’ stranglehold…
SeafoodSource: Ahold Delhaize subsidiary Hannaford latest company to be hit with civil suit over seafood sustainability claims
“FarmSTAND alleges Hannaford salmon supplier Cooke Aquaculture is ‘notorious for converting Maine’s seabed into fish feedlots’ and that its other suppliers in Chile are “plagued with many of the same…
Stopping a Grocery Chain’s Industrial Salmon Greenwashing (Boyle v. Hannaford)
Consumers want to support sustainable seafood, but Big Aquaculture can’t compete with independent fishers on sustainability. This means grocery store marketing representing industrial seafood as sustainable is key to keeping…
Class of Consumers Sues Hannaford & Parent Company Over Deceptive Marketing of “Sustainable” Salmon
Suppliers of Hannaford salmon include notorious aquaculture giant Cooke The grocery store chain Hannaford aggressively markets its seafood as sustainable, when in reality it “sells industrially farmed salmon whose production…
Seafood Source: Australis’ US subsidiary sued for alleged deceptive marketing on Mama Bear salmon products, marking latest seafood greenwashing case
“According to the plaintiff – represented by fair food system advocacy organization FarmSTAND and law firms Pearson Warshaw and Jennings & Earley – Trapanada’s marketing claims that Mama Bear salmon…
Sentient Media: Can You Trust ‘Sustainably Farm-Raised’ Salmon? A New Lawsuit Challenges the Label
“We rely on companies to tell the truth when they’re making those statements and when they don’t, it harms consumers and other producers who are investing the money and taking…
Stopping Big Salmon Greenwashing (Harris v. Trapananda Seafarms)
Big Aquaculture is following the same model of environmental degradation, worker exploitation, and consumer deception as the land-based corporate animal agriculture system. The complaint in this action alleges that behind…
Class of Consumers Sues Industrial Salmon Giant Over Alleged Deceptive Marketing of “Mama Bear” Products’ Sustainability
Australis has stark record of environmental destruction in Chile, according to complaint Despite trading on a cute, pastoral image, Mama Bear salmon is sourced from a company operating at the…
Grist: 4 things to know about cyclospora and climate change
“Bainbridge added that the corporate consolidation of agriculture — and specifically, the intensive confinement of animals on farms — makes outbreaks of salmonella and E. coli more likely.”