Waitrose is set to remove mackerel from its shelves amid escalating concerns over unsustainable fishing practices.
The retailer said that it is the first major UK supermarket to suspend sourcing of the popular fish.
It said that fresh, chilled, and frozen mackerel, primarily sourced from Scottish waters, will be unavailable to shoppers by 29 April. Tinned varieties will follow once the current stock is depleted.
Whilst I welcome the change, my corporate paranoia hat wonders if they’re actually doing this because they’ve peeked into the future and suddenly sprouted a conscience, or, if their suppliers are coming up with empty nets already and the retailers are shifting the focus away from themselves by saying “see? we told you it was unsustainable”
Man, I’ve always had negative opinions on “conspiracy theory” nuts, who are a bit too skeptical about everything… but these days… I feel I might be becoming one.
It’s either that - or I am becoming aware of how messed up the world is. So maybe I’m not paranoid, but just painfully aware of “the system.”
Ignorance truly is bliss. It’s stressful to always have thoughts like the one you’re presenting.
Once you realise that most of humanities laws are written after a bad event and not before, and that companies would rather spend millions of dollars on PR instead of fixing a problem, the tinfoil hat starts to grow in.
None of what I wrote above is true 100% of the time, but occurs an undefined X% of the time that I’m primed to