Seventy-five yogurt styles to choose from, nine different brands of pretzels (in seven different shapes), and a mystifying freezer shelf of ready-prepared meals: yesterday’s trip to the corner market has morphed into a dizzyingly complex expedition to today’s Tesco Extra – with an emphasis on the extra. Add concerns about health and sustainability into the mix, and getting happily home with a well-chosen cart of groceries can seem a sysiphean task.
For seafood lovers, though, several non-profit organizations offer a set of tools – some simple and some for the new techie masses – to make those choices a bit easier. The Monterey Bay Aquarium issues US consumers its handy Seafood Watch Guide through its Seafood Watch program. A “traffic-light” labelling systems compiles listings of fish considered “Best Choices,” “Good Alternatives,” and “Best to “Avoid”; the guides available range from a pocket-sized laminable card to a snazzy iPhone app. The Marine Conservation Society gives users in the UK its similarly oriented “Pocket Good Fish Guide”
If you’d like to think about making more sustainable food choices, guides such as these might be a great place to start. While your trip through the Tesco seafood section might not get any faster, I bet you’ll feel better at the checkout.
Have you seen any similar resources targeting other countries and regions? Please leave us a link in your comments.
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That is SO interesting! Good job!
Yes, it is interesting … I wonder if any of our colleagues have any resources from Mexico, Brasil, Colombia, Russia …?
Check out the Dutch Fish Guide: http://www.goedevis.nl/ – it even has an iPhone App
That’s great! Thank you, Jules. And – something of a bonus – I *think* I even understood it …
This is a cool website: Mr Goodfish. http://www.mrgoodfish.com/en/index.html
It targets France, Spain, and Italy.
The “great features”:
- photo IDs of all the fish
- recipes for each …