Following up on our last post on sustainable fisheries we thought it interesting that the New York Times has a blog interview today with Casson Trenor who works with Greenpeace on these particular issues.
Take a look and give us your take on the recommendations offered.
We feel that although Mr. Trenor says that consumer education isn't ultimately going to be the solution to our fisheries depletion the end result of greater customer awareness and knowledge will, in fact, lead to greater customer oversight of retail buying policies. Obviously, if customers know which questions to ask at their seafood counters, then certain responses will either satisfy them or cause them to take their dollars elsewhere. That dynamic would also follow through into demands of our policy makers to support sustainable fisheries standards and hold them to regulating the industry.
Consumers must always place themselves in positions of power when it comes to how our food is produced, otherwise we remain susceptible to shortcuts and greenwashing that seek to confuse and divert our collective attention.
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