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Uncategorized Blog
Greenpeace, When Idealism Meets Realty
It's not hard to become enamored with Greenpeace if you don't look below the surface. Save the whales, protect the forest, defend the earth-great goals. But what about distort the facts, destroy the p...
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Health Blog
I'm staying on track with our Supper Plan this week, so dinner Tuesday (and lunch Wednesday) was no surprise - whole wheat spaghetti with lemon, basil, and salmon and green beans with creamy garlic d...
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Health Blog
My Monday night dinner party was a success, so much so that I forgot to take a picture of all the treats, but did get a shot of the shrimp and rice pilaf. For additional Indian-inspired seafood recip...
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Health Blog
We had a busy weekend that involved our favorite restaurant on Friday (Sushi Sasabune)... ...an attempt to surf (underscore, attempt) on Saturday... ...and lots of errand running on Sun...
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Health Blog
You may have noticed that I recently added the Foodie BlogRoll widget over there in the right sidebar. Foodie BlogRoll keeps track of and randomly promotes over 4,000 food blogs. If you click through ...
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Uncategorized Blog
Sushi Story Prepares To Sink Piven
This week actor Jeremy Piven takes his "I got mercury poisoning from eating too much fish and had to bail out of your play" argument before an arbiter as the play's producers seek money from the hard-...
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Uncategorized Blog
It was just yesterday that I sent the following letter to CNN International challenging its coverage of tuna. June 9, 2009 Byron Harmon Senior Executive Producer CNN International VIA Email Dear...
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Health Blog
My hectic travel routine will come to an end in just a few short hours when I board a plane for my final trip home to Honolulu. Final, that is, until our next Texas wedding in July. But that means I'...
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Uncategorized Blog
Celebrating The Oceans Through Distortion
I have written it so many times I must sound like a broken record. When explaining the way Oceana prefers to communicate I say it, "continues to operate in that gray area between skillfully under info...
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Health Blog
I am back in Texas, partly for work and partly for fun. The work part includes a lunch meeting yesterday with the American Pregnancy Association at, appropriately, Rockfish Seafood Grill Restaurant. ...
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Sustainability Press Release
Its Groundhog Day for Greenpeace
WASHINGTON, D.C. June 1, 2009 If Greenpeace remains a creature of habit, rather than responsible actor, it will unveil a third set of retailer rankings this summer that grade U.S. grocery stores bas...
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Health Blog
Lloyd and I have a goal of visiting all the Hawaiian islands over our 2.5 years here, and decided on a whim to get to it over the weekend. We booked a last minute cheap flight to Kauai, "the garden i...
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Uncategorized Blog
An Early Contender For Title Of Years Most Misreported Seafood Story (Part III)
Foodconsumer.org is regretting its error this morning. You'll note in this story that; "An article posted on foodconsumer was mistakenly titled "Tuna Getting More Toxic" and stated that "methylmer...
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Health Blog
Last weekend while I was with the girls in Tahoe, Lloyd went on a guys' fishing trip. He said they were very excited about reeling in a bountiful catch because they had a 30-pound Ono (aka, Wahoo) wi...
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Consumer Protection News Item
Multi-agency Forum to Discuss Net Weight Seafood Fraud
Officials from FDA, CBP, NOAA Seafood Inspection Program, select State Weights and Measures program, and industry representatives met to develop an action plan addressing less than 100% net weight fro...