April 24, 2012 – Massachusetts Republican senator Scott Brown scored some free anti-elitist points Monday, wading into what’s become a mild controversy over Whole Foods’ seafood sustainability standards.
The Austin-based supermarket chain had actually received criticism over the past few years for continuing to sell fish that its system labeled “red,” meaning “avoid.” But what was originally meant to be a gradual phase-out of such fish came to a permanent end on April 22 (Earth Day), one year sooner than the company had originally intended.
And that had fishermen around New England steamed.
“It’s totally maddening,” New England fisherman Naz Sanfilippo told Abby Goodnough of the New York Times, in a story documenting the industry’s unhappiness with Whole Foods’s decision. “They’re just doing it to make all the green people happy.”
Read the full story at Texas Monthly.