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Fish4Ever founder gives evidence at Ecocide trial
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Fish4Ever founder to be expert witness at Bristol Ecocide trial
 

15 June, Bristol: What if Ecocide was made the 5th United Nations Crime against Peace? And heads of state or CEOs were made legally responsible for their destruction of the natural world?
 
Using real barristers and judges, mock Ecocide trials powerfully illustrate how this would work in practice (2). 
 
This time the focus is on fish, and our marine ecosystems.
 
On Friday 15 June during Bristol Big Green Week, a jury of Bristolians will decide whether UK marine fisheries policy and practice amounts to Ecocide (3).
 
Charles Redfern, founder and managing director of Fish4Ever, will be giving evidence as an expert witness. As a trail-blazer in sustainable canned fish, he has been asked to demonstrate the consumer demand for sustainable seafood (4 - 6). 
 
Also present will be Polly Higgins, the high-profile barrister and activist who brought the proposed Ecocide law to a world-stage (7). 
 
Fish4Ever's mermaids will be there, demonstrating for their fellow sea creatures. 

Photo opportunity: 1 pm at Bordeaux Quay (8).

Notes to the Editor


1. High-profile mock ecocide trials include the Gulf oil spill and Canadian crude oil mining eported in the Financial Times
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7e42cb72-eb88-11e0-a576-00144feab49a.html#axzz1wq4HY6os and the Independent 
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-living/mock-trial-finds-tar-sands-spill-bosses-guilty-of-ecocide-2363988.html, among other publications.
 
2. Ecocide trials are part of a campaign to declare the mass destruction of ecosystems an international crime against peace. Four other crimes against peace are: Genocide, Crimes Against Humanity, War Crimes, and Crimes of Aggression. 
http://www.eradicatingecocide.com
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/apr/09/ecocide-crime-genocide-un-environmental-damage

3. Ecocide trial during Bristol's Big Green Week
http://biggreenweek.com/friday-events/the-big-ecocide-trial/  

4. Founded in 2001, Fish4Ever was the world's first sustainable canned fish brand, and is the sister company of organic food company, Organico, both Reading-based. All Fish4Ever's land ingredients are 100% organic. 
http://www.fish-4-ever.com/  http://www.organico.co.uk/

5. Fish4Ever tuna received the highest ranking in the Ethical Consumer ethical canned tuna guide and a world-beating 89% sustainability rating from Greenpeace.  
http://www.ethicalconsumer.org/buyersguides/food/tinnedtuna.aspx 
http://www.greenpeace.org/australia/en/what-we-do/oceans/Take-action/canned-tuna-guide  

6Fish4Ever founder and MD, Charles Redfern developed one of the first fish sustainability policies in 2002, later featuring in Greenpeace International campaign films. Charles Redfern’s campaigning work includes working with Sustainable Fish City, WWF Trade Alliance and the Sustainable Seafood Coalition.

7. Polly Higgins was voted one of the World's Top 10 Visionary Thinkers by Ecologist Magazine, and won the People's Book Prize 2010 for Eradicating Ecocide.
http://www.theecologist.org/investigations/natural_world/270378/visionaries_polly_higgins.html 
http://www.peoplesbookprize.com/winners2010.htm

8.Bordeaux Quay sustainable restaurant is at V-Shed, Canons Way, Bristol, BS1 5UH
http://www.bordeaux-quay.co.uk

 
9. Fish4Ever  http://www.fish-4-ever.com/  
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