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            <title>Comment #1 by Toolsmith</title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2006 06:46:39 -0800</pubDate>
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				<p><strong>Wal-Mart Sustainable Fish - Greenwash or not?<p>I am excited by Wal-Mart's plans for their wild-caught and frozen fish to be 100% sustainable. &nbsp;<p>
However, this skirts the issue of farmed Chilean salmon, which is delivered fresh. &nbsp;There's a long section in the book "The Wal-Mart Effect", available from Salon at <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/books/2006/01/23/walmart_effect/index.html," rel="nofollow">http://www.salon.com/tech/books/2006/01/23/walmart_effect/index.html, that goes into the details - but briefly, 65% or farmed salmon sold in the US comes from Chile. &nbsp;1/3 or so is sold by Wal-Mart, so Wal-Mart is able to control conditions in Chile under which salmon is raised. &nbsp;So far, low cost has been the overweening factor, although that might be changing. &nbsp;Farmed salmon is now Chile's second largest export. &nbsp;Conditions for factory workers, and the ecological impact of salmon farming, are not high enough on anybody's list. &nbsp;So Wal-Mart has some room left to go where fish and sustainability are concerned.</a></p></p></strong></p>
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				<p><strong>Wal-Mart Sustainable Fish - Greenwash or not?<p>I am excited by Wal-Mart's plans for their wild-caught and frozen fish to be 100% sustainable. &nbsp;<p>
However, this skirts the issue of farmed Chilean salmon, which is delivered fresh. &nbsp;There's a long section in the book "The Wal-Mart Effect", available from Salon at <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/books/2006/01/23/walmart_effect/index.html," rel="nofollow">http://www.salon.com/tech/books/2006/01/23/walmart_effect/index.html, that goes into the details - but briefly, 65% or farmed salmon sold in the US comes from Chile. &nbsp;1/3 or so is sold by Wal-Mart, so Wal-Mart is able to control conditions in Chile under which salmon is raised. &nbsp;So far, low cost has been the overweening factor, although that might be changing. &nbsp;Farmed salmon is now Chile's second largest export. &nbsp;Conditions for factory workers, and the ecological impact of salmon farming, are not high enough on anybody's list. &nbsp;So Wal-Mart has some room left to go where fish and sustainability are concerned.</a></p></p></strong></p>
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