Chapter 11 Feeding the World
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CAFOs
What is a CAFO?
What are the pros of CAFOs?
What are the cons of CAFOs?
Read the Quotes regarding CAFOs below………….
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way in which its animals are treated.” ~Gandhi
“These animal rights people like to accuse us of mistreating our stock, but we believe we can be most efficient by not
being emotional. We are a business, not a humane society, and our job is to sell merchandise at a profit. It’s no different
from selling paper-clips or refrigerators.” — Henry Pace, owner of a livestock auction yard
“One should not assert as a general principle that non-economic considerations can be entertained only after probable
profit maximization is calculated. Farm and performance animals are not machines or plants, but sentient beings. They
can feel pain, distress, stress, and discomfort. All animals capable of experiencing negative mental states have an interest
in not experiencing such states.” — Jerrold Tannenbaum, M.A., J.D., Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, Tufts
University School of Veterinary Medicine
How do you personally feel about CAFOs?
Do you agree or disagree with this cartoon. Explain.
More Sustainable Animal Farming
What are the pros of free-range meat?
What are the cons of free-range meat?
Look at the Chipotle: Food With Integrity (FWI) facts.
Write down two facts that are most interesting to you and describe why you picked them.
FACT #1
FACT #2
Fisheries
Describe how the Tragedy of a Commons (p. 262) applies to ocean fisheries.
How have factory fishing ships led to non-sustainable fishing harvest?
How can large-scale, high-tech fishing negatively impact the environment?
More Sustainable Fishing
What is the Sustainable Fisheries Act of 1996?
What is aquaculture?
What are the pros of aquaculture?
What are the cons of aquaculture?
Look at the Whole Foods Seafood Sustainability
How does Whole Foods determine what seafood to carry in stores?
What species of fish did Whole Foods stop carrying all together?
What was special about Earth Day 2012?
What are some standards that Whole Foods set for their farm raised product?
Seafood Sustainability Basics
The Whole Foods Market Approach
1. SOURCE AS MUCH MARINE STEWARDSHIP COUNCIL CERTIFIED SUSTAINABLE SEAFOOD AS
POSSIBLE
Back in 1999 Whole Foods Market was the first U.S. retailer to collaborate with the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) and each
year we continue to offer our customers more and more MSC-certified seafood options. Over a decade later we still view the MSC as
the world’s leading certification program for sustainable wild-caught seafood and our collaboration with them remains strong. We
support the MSC because they use a multi-stakeholder, international, market-based approach to provide incentives for fisheries to
address key issues such as overfishing and bycatch. Their standards are strong and the program is based upon third-party certification,
including chain of custody. This means that the fish you see in our stores with an MSC-certified label on it actually came from the
MSC-certified fishery
Look for the blue MSC eco-label identifying wild-caught seafood products that are MSC-certified.
2. WHEN MSC-CERTIFIED SEAFOOD IS NOT AVAILABLE, GIVE CUSTOMERS TRANSPARENT
INFORMATION, LET THEM VOTE WITH THEIR DOLLARS, AND COMMIT TO FURTHER CHANGE.
In addition to offering MSC-certified sustainable seafood, we are doing even more. Over the last decade, we stopped selling especially
vulnerable species such as non-MSC-certified Chilean sea bass, orange roughy, bluefin tuna, sharks, and marlins (with the exception
of Hawaii-caught blue marlin, sold only in Hawaii stores).
But we go beyond that. Since 2010 we have presented color-coded sustainability ratings for all non-MSC certified wild-caught
seafood in all our seafood cases through our partnership with non-profit organizations, Blue Ocean Institute and Monterey Bay
Aquarium. We’re proud to be the first national retailer to have such an extensive sustainability-rating program. Armed with
information, our shoppers can make fully informed choices about their seafood.
Furthermore, on Earth Day 2012, we eliminated all wild-caught seafood from red-rated fisheries from our seafood departments. A red
rating means that the fish population is at low levels of abundance and is caught in ways that cause serious harm to habitat or other
marine life. Now, when customers visit the seafood department at our stores, any choice is a responsible one—whether it’s MSCcertified, green or yellow-rated wild-caught seafood, or farm-raised. With these efforts, we are closer to our goal of moving our
stores—and the seafood industry as a whole—toward healthier oceans.
3. SET THE BAR HIGH WITH RESPONSIBLY FARMED™ SEAFOOD
There’s no doubt about it. Our farmed seafood (aquaculture) standards are the highest in the industry. The standards prohibit use of
antibiotics, added growth hormones, added preservatives like sulfites and phosphates, genetically-modified seafood, and land animal
by-products in feed. Our standards require that producers protect water quality, wildlife, and ecosystems. And we require third-party
audits and traceability from farm to market. Look for the “Responsibly Farmed” logo, indicating that the farmed seafood meets these
high standards.