2005-05
Fish boycott to save seals
NEW YORK CITY��Legal Seafoods, a 31-restaurant chain with anchor
franchises in New York City and Boston, on May 9 joined
Tavern-on-the-Green in Central Park and the 168-store Whole Foods Market
chain in endorsing a boycott of Atlantic Canada seafood called by the
Humane Society of the U.S. in protest against the Atlantic Canadian seal
hunt.
The boycott targets snow crabs, lobsters. shrimp, mussels, and ground
fish.
The Legal Seafoods announcement coincided with the arrival in New York
City of Canadian ambassador Frank McKenna, who was to make several
prominent appearances.
While HSUS is promoting the boycott through a media strategy, Anthony
Marr of Vancouver, British Columbia, on May 13 set out on a 90-day
�Terminate the Seal Hunt Campaign Tour� of the western U.S. and Canada.
Pushing the boycott through personal persuasion and petitioning, Marr said
he had 35 speaking engagements already booked, with about 20 more still
being finalized.
�Carmen Crosland, age 14, president of Youth Against Animal Abuse, will
display a web page at <www.YAAAonline.org> of all the seafood merchants�
who join the boycott, Marr said. Marr will also post the list at his own
campaign web site, <www.HOPE-CARE.org>, and welcomes pledges and inquiries
about his itinerary at either <[email protected]>
or 604-222-1169.
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