A small group of black-clad Greenpeace campaigners startled grocery shoppers in downtown Halifax today when they drove a hearse to the doors of the Queen Street Sobeys and unloaded a coffin containing the head of an Atlantic cod.
Were here to urge Sobeys to stop selling cod, Sarah King, a Greenpeace oceans campaigner based in Vancouver, told reporters. The Atlantic cod stocks have been showing no signs of recovery and Sobeys has refused to take any action to stop selling cod to death.
The Greenpeace mourners carried red roses and silently handed out an “obituary” noting that Atlantic Cod died on July 2, 2028 after suffering a long fight with overfishing.” The notice adds: “Atlantic Cod was preceded in death by the Atlantic walrus and is survived by the jellyfish.”
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