Organic Hug Embraces Safeway!

If you are lucky enough to be able to shop at Safeway Market, next time you're there doing your grocery shopping, congratulate them on being named the #1 Sustainable Seafood Grocer by Greenpeace! Greenpeace rates grocers on their safe seafood practices, product labeling and information, whether or not they are making it easy for the consumer to know where the seafood they're purchasing came from, and a market's sustainable initiatives.
You may be asking yourself, what is "sustainable seafood"? When you're buying seafood, there should be a label telling you whether the product is "wild caught" OR "farm raised"...where the product comes from and this is where it gets tricky...the product may have been packaged in the USA but in the fine print on the package, you may find that it originally came from, for example, Thailand. Sustainable Seafood is a product that comes from the following:

Wild Caught: A fishery is considered sustainable if...

1. There is no over-fishing of a species.
2. Methods of catching the fish do not endanger dolphins, whales, sea turtles, etc.
3. There is no damage to the habitat.

Farm Raised: Aqua farming is considered sustainable if...

1. The amount of wild fish used in the feeds are minimal.
2. The environment is not being polluted.
3. Wild animals are not affected by disease, competition or inter-breeding.

Read more about Safeway's Sustainable Accomplishments

Other markets at the top of the Greenpeace list were...
Target, Wholefoods, Aldi, Sweetbay Supermarket, Costco, and Walmart!!

Grocery Chains at the bottom of Greenpeace's list include...
Winn Dixie and Publix.