Community excited about huge oceans victory

by Michelle Frey

February 25, 2011

Greenpeace meets Costco executives

Recently, wholesale giant, Costco announced a new sustainable seafood policy aimed at protecting the oceans.

The response from the public has been amazing! Check out what people have been saying about this huge win for the oceans:

– Indeed awesome news!
– Thanks for all your hard work, Greenpeace!
– Beautiful. Hope this change is contagious.
– So frikkin cool! Well done you guys!
– Great job…please don’t stop now!!!!!!!!!

And, that’s not all. The media has been publishing stories about the announcement all around the world.

SeafoodSource.com:

Greenpeace-USA on Thursday announced that Costco Wholesale Corp. has revised its sustainable seafood purchasing policy, and, as a result, the environmental activist organization has suspended the campaign it launched against the club-store chain last year. Read more >>

Change.org:

Changing the industrialized food system oftentimes starts in grocery store aisles. No situation makes this fact more evident than Costco’s agreement to stop selling threatened species of fish and implement a seafood sustainability program.
Read more >>

Congrats to all who helped make this possible. And stay involved because our work to improve the health of the oceans is far from over.

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