Acclaimed celebrity chef Brian Malarkey has signed on to The Humane Society of the United States’ Protect Seals campaign to bring Canada’s commercial seal slaughter to an end. continue
NILS STOLPE: The New England groundfish debacle (Part IV): Is cutting back harvest really the answer?
While it’s a fact that’s hardly ever acknowledged, the assumption in fisheries management is that if the population of a stock of fish isn’t at some arbitrary level, it’s because of too much fishing. Hence the term “overfished.” Hence the mandated knee jerk reaction of the fisheries managers to not enough fish; cut back on fishing. What of other factors? They don’t count. It’s all about fishing, because fishing is all that the managers can control; it’s their Maslow’s Hammer. When it comes to the oceans it seems as if it’s about all that the industry connected mega-foundations that support the anti-fishing ENGOs with hundreds of millions of dollars a year in “donations” are interested in controlling. Read the article here
I say boycott Fulla Malarkey, and all the rest. Oh. And charge them triple for fish!
Top chefs already supporting the campaign include Charlie Ayers, Mario Batali, Richard Blais, Cat Cora, Susan Feniger, Carla Hall, Mary Sue Milliken, Michael Mina, Nancy Oakes, Michel Richard, Aarón Sanchez, Kerry Simon, Curtis Stone, Tre Wilcox and Patricia Yeo.
Some of the companies participating include Trader Joe’s, Whole Foods Markets, Harris Teeter, The Patina Group, China Grill Management Inc., Batali – Bastianich Hospitality Group, Jimmy Buffett’s Margaritaville Cafés, Legal Sea Foods, the Bon Appétit Management Company and Ted Turner’s Ted’s Montana Grill. See the full list here.