{"id":5055,"date":"2013-03-07T16:03:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T16:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldfishing.nfdtesting.uk\/icefish-conference\/2013\/03\/07\/nfi-informs-retailers-of-greenpeace-hypocrisy\/"},"modified":"2013-03-07T16:03:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T16:03:00","slug":"nfi-informs-retailers-of-greenpeace-hypocrisy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/news\/industry-news\/nfi-informs-retailers-of-greenpeace-hypocrisy\/","title":{"rendered":"NFI informs retailers of Greenpeace hypocrisy"},"content":{"rendered":"

The \u2018Your Pain, Their Gain\u2019 campaign claims to expose Greenpeace as \u201ca science-averse, marginalised organisation that doesn\u2019t care about helping retailers develop sustainable seafood policies – only fundraising to sustain its $700,000\/day operating budget\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis survey has nothing to do with sustaining the world\u2019s oceans; it\u2019s all about sustaining Greenpeace,\u201d added NFI spokesperson Gavin Gibbons.<\/p>\n

NFI\u2019s campaign, hosted at www.tunafortomorrow.com\/retailers<\/a>, will include infographics, videos, and analysis. The site will feature case studies of high-profile companies in different industries that have continued to suffer from unrelenting Greenpeace confrontation even after<\/i> meeting its initial demands.<\/p>\n

\u201cGreenpeace engages in what we call a cycle of abuse,\u201d Mr Gibbons said. \u201cIt unilaterally decides to target businesses and make unrealistic, endless demands; harass employees and customers; appeal to donor generosity to thwart made-up crises; and claim victory when businesses capitulate.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said that as Greenpeace does not endorse any seafood certification programs and is not active in Fishery Improvement Projects, grocers are far better off communicating their sustainability efforts directly to their customers.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo matter what they tell Greenpeace, it\u2019s never good enough. Greenpeace will always criticise them\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n

To read the Greenpeace response to this story, please click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Greenpeace\u2019s annual sustainability survey and ranking of US grocers, Carting Away the Oceans, has been criticised by the National Fisheries Institute (NFI).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-5055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5055"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=5055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}