To quote a portion of it, hopefully short enough to qualify as fair use:
"Still, the company's response to our demands remains the same: letters from lawyers, the deletion of public comments from their Facebook page and a full-scale PR campaign attacking Greenpeace. They're not talking about the problem...they're just trying to cover it up.
That's why I'm asking you and everyone else who signed the letter to follow-up with Chicken of the Sea right now with a direct message and demand that they respond to the issues outlined in the letter.
http://us.greenpeace.org/site/R?i=SV_JUAK5sTeQYmZczUTx_w
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The e-mail didn't have any links showing where Chicken of the Sea engaged in a PR campaign against Greenpeace, but I was able to find it in the news easily enough.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/44179731/Tuna_Firms_Object_to_Greenpeace_Use_of_Their_Mascots
https://www.seafoodsource.com/newsarticledetail.aspx?id=11828
http://breachingblue.com/2011/08/31/tuna-fight/
The third link has a bunch of Flash videos, so if you're computer, like mine, doesn't have Flash, you'll have to borrow someone else's or use a public computer to see it all.
This is so typical of megacorporations. They want to be able to do whatever they want without having to worry about their environmentally destructive/enslaving/murderous/otherwise bad business practices being exposed to the world, possibly triggering ethically-minded consumers to boycott.
More from Greenpeace about the destructive, wasteful fishing practices:
http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/media-center/news-releases/Greenpeace-challenges-Chicken-of-the-Sea-to-reform-destructive-fishing-practices/
I actually heard about it first from these Hugh's Fish Fight, which apparently has 756,794 supporters now:
"Half of all fish caught in the north sea are thrown back overboard dead."
http://www.fishfight.net/
The Fish Fight website has a lot of this stuff on video, plus plenty of text for those of us without Flash, and suggestions on how you can reduce your impact. You don't even have to become vegetarian, in fact a number of the celebrity chef's supporting Hugh's Fish Fight are definitely not vegetarian, but apparently many lesser known species of fish are the ones being thrown away, so you should eat those ones (unless you are vegetarian).
http://www.fishfight.net/get-adventurous/
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