SeaWeb
1731 Connecticut Avenue, NW,
4th Floor,
Washington,
DC
20009
Phone 202-483-9570 |
Fax 202-483-9354 |
Email seaweb@seaweb.org
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Center for Science in the Public Interest
The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) and SeaWeb are both clients of leftist Washington PR firm Fenton Communications, the birthplace of the modern food scare. Among Fenton Communications’ “accomplishments” are the StarLink biotech corn fiasco, NRDC’s Alar-on-apples fundraising scam, and the unnecessary “Give Swordfish a Break” campaign orchestrated for SeaWeb.
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Chefs Collaborative
Great numbers of activist chefs from the Chefs Collaborative provided the enforcer’s muscle behind the unnecessary 1998-2000 “Give Swordfish a Break” boycott, denying their dining patrons the opportunity to choose swordfish for their dinner plates. A similar boycott of Caspian Sea caviar is currently underway, with the Chefs Collaborative membership carrying out the environmental movement’s misguided marching orders.
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Environmental Media Services
The strategy for SeaWeb’s ill-advised and unnecessary “Give Swordfish a Break!” campaign was conceived by account executives at Fenton Communications (SeaWeb is still a Fenton client). In its typical role as media “front” group, Environmental Media Services heavily promoted the swordfish boycott for two years before declaring “victory” in 2000.
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Greenpeace
Greenpeace turns up in the work histories of at least four full-time SeaWeb staffers. SeaWeb vice president Tom Johnson was formerly Greenpeace’s ocean ecology campaign director; Bruce McKay, SeaWeb’s senior researcher, founded Greenpeace Montreal; Boyce Thorne-Miller, SeaWeb’s senior scientist, still consults with Greenpeace on ocean issues; and Kieran Mulvaney, who writes and edits SeaWeb’s Ocean Update newsletter, was formerly a Greenpeace anti-whaling campaigner. Greenpeace USA and SeaWeb are both clients of leftist Washington PR boutique Fenton Communications. David Fenton’s flacks have perfected the art of the food scare, including NRDC’s Alar-on-apples fundraising scam in 1989, SeaWeb’s ridiculous 1988 swordfish boycott, and the more recent StarLink corn fiasco.
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Natural Resources Defense Council
SeaWeb began as a “project” of the NRDC, with a start-up grant from the Pew Charitable Trusts. Now that SeaWeb has been spun off and enjoys relative independence, its leaders still collaborate with NRDC program directors on a variety of promotions, including the wholly unnecessary (and thoroughly debunked) “Give Swordfish a Break!” campaign. NRDC’s opinions on which species of menu fish are politically correct enough to eat can be found on SeaWeb’s “Seafood Choices Alliance” web site. Greenpeace USA and SeaWeb are both clients of leftist Washington PR boutique Fenton Communications, the widely-acknowledged kings of the modern food scare.
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