At the recent Cooking for Solutions conference, executives from Whole Foods, Bon Appetit and Wal-Mart appeared on stage together to reaffirm the importance of organic and sustainable food.
Oh, and Wal-Mart still has that whole other mess.
Little did you know, Wal-Mart has become one of the world’s greenest companies. Among the steps taken by the world’s biggest retailer are new regulations regarding their shrimp imports:
The company is requiring shrimp farms that have been ravaging the coast of Thailand to change their aquaculture practices or lose the retailer’s business. Under the company’s new rules, the shrimp farms must be certified by Global Aquaculture Alliance or Aquaculture Certification Council as being farmed in environmentally sound ways, he said.It’s no hollow gesture – Wal-Mart sells more than 50 million pounds of shrimp a year (most of it from Thailand), which is about 40 percent of all the seafood it handles, Redmond said.Wal-Mart is also turning more toward wild, domestic shrimp, even though it’s more expensive, he said. The company has stopped selling some overfished species entirely, although he didn’t name them.
At the recent Cooking for Solutions conference, executives from Whole Foods, Bon Appetit and Wal-Mart appeared on stage together to reaffirm the importance of organic and sustainable food.
Oh, and Wal-Mart still has that whole other mess.
Little did you know, Wal-Mart has become one of the world’s greenest companies. Among the steps taken by the world’s biggest retailer are new regulations regarding their shrimp imports:
