You better check your "facts" before you write such a disparaging, snarky article. Trader Joe's doesn't contribute to any interrogation put forth by Greenpeace, and therefore Greenpeace has to resort to the usual environmental FUD tactics that many "goodwill" organizations have exhibited in the past. What's worse, is that every arbitrary hippie blogger under the sun is willing to bend towards their every word -- further demonstrated by this post here.

It doesn't help that Trader Joe's is a.... More

Oh come on Cassen, please stop insulting our intelligence! And Greenpeace just “happened” to have created a spoof “Tratior Joe’s” site with hours of releasing your report, but completely ignored Costco and everyone else? You at Greenpeace know you will get the most results by targeting TJ’s, similar to what happened a few years back when you SPECIFICALLY appealed to their customers to ask them to stop selling cruelty-free eggs. (which TJ’s eventually did) I mean, what.... More

It's important to consider that there is more than number of species currently sold at stake here. Trader Joe's, unlike many of the other retailers examined under our report, has no sustainable seafood policy whatsoever. As such, there is no barrier preventing them from bringing in any number of endangered fish tomorrow, even if they don't sell them today.

Trader Joe's also does not participate in any sort of sustainability initiatives, industry-led or otherwise. Even many conventional.... More

Trader Joe's doesn't actually sell several of the types of fish that greenpeace claims they do. Trader Joe's doesnt like to give out detailed information to outside orginizations like greenpeace and because of that, greenpeace created false information and lowered their score for refusing to cooperate with them. it's true they sell orange roughy, but look at the entire report on all the other grocery stores they ranked highly and look at how much banned seafood they actually sell. if you take.... More