Help stop whaling
Who is Gorton's?
Whaling is not just the concern of governments and cryptic political meetings. There is big business involved. While whaling is not profitable, you might be surprised to learn of some famous seafood companies' connections to whaling. We're asking you to help us make the whaling stop.
With total annual sales in the hundreds of millions of dollars, Gorton's is the market leader in frozen seafood products in the US. The company even invented the McDonald's Filet-O-Fish burger. Its frozen battered shrimp, fish sticks and other ready-to-eat foods are sold at grocery stores across the US.
In 2001 Gorton's was sold to its current owner, Nissui USA, for US$175 million. Nissui USA is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Nissui, Japan's second-largest marine products firm, with operations in the United States, Argentina, Chile, the Netherlands, China, Indonesia, Singapore and Vietnam. Nissui is closely linked with the annual "scientific" whale hunt in Japan.
So, despite Gorton's clean-cut family business image, it is actually a Japanese multinational company whose parent company is involved in whaling.
Please send a letter to the president of Gorton's and ask him to help stop whaling.
Help stop whaling
http://prefs.greenpeace.org/mail-links/clicks/11346.2033379.5409
Whaling is not just the concern of governments and cryptic political meetings. There is big business involved. While whaling is not profitable, you might be surprised to learn of some famous seafood companies' connections to whaling. We're asking you to help us make the whaling stop.
With total annual sales in the hundreds of millions of dollars, Gorton's is the market leader in frozen seafood products in the US. The company even invented the McDonald's Filet-O-Fish burger. Its frozen battered shrimp, fish sticks and other ready-to-eat foods are sold at grocery stores across the US.
In 2001 Gorton's was sold to its current owner, Nissui USA, for US$175 million. Nissui USA is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Nissui, Japan's second-largest marine products firm, with operations in the United States, Argentina, Chile, the Netherlands, China, Indonesia, Singapore and Vietnam. Nissui is closely linked with the annual "scientific" whale hunt in Japan.
So, despite Gorton's clean-cut family business image, it is actually a Japanese multinational company whose parent company is involved in whaling.
Please send a letter to the president of Gorton's and ask him to help stop whaling.
Help stop whaling
http://prefs.greenpeace.org/mail-links/clicks/11346.2033379.5409
Starmail - 9. Dez, 22:47
