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Target: RED LOBSTER This large chain of restaurants may be the single largest importer of Canadian seafood in the world. The Red Lobster restaurant chain is owned by The Darden Group. This parent company also owns another large chain of restaurants called the Olive Garden. SOURCE: http://www.redlobster.com; http://www.dardenrestaurants.com

Red Lobster 5900 Lake Ellenor Drive Orlando, FL 32809 ph: 407-245-4000, 1-800-562-7837; media relations: [email protected] web email: http://www.redlobster.com/contactus.asp

Darden Restuarants (owns Red Lobster) P.O. Box 593330 Orlando, FL 32859-3330 ph: 407-245-4000; email: [email protected] human resources: [email protected]; ph: 407-245-6423 corporate growth: [email protected]; investor relations: [email protected] supplier diversity: [email protected] community diversity: [email protected]; purchasing: [email protected] real estate and market development: [email protected] web email: http://investor.dardenrestaurants.com/abt_comment.cfm

Target: SHELLS Popular chain of seafood restaurants. SOURCE: http://www.shellsseafood.com

Shells 16313 N. Dale Mabry Hwy., Suite 100 Tampa, FL 33618 ph: 813-961-0944; email: [email protected]; careers: [email protected] web email: http://www.shellsseafood.com/process.cfm?PageID=8

Target: WILD OATS MARKET Large natural chain carrying Canadian seafood products. SOURCE: http://www.wildoats.com

Mr. Perry Odak, President and Chief Executive, Wild Oats Markets, Inc. 3375 Mitchell Lane Boulder, CO 80301 ph: 1-800-494-WILD, 303-440-5220; email: [email protected] general web email: http://www.wildoats.com/u/contact/ Board of Wild Oats Markets: Inc.https://www.corpcomcontact.com/emailNET/oats/sox301.aspx

Target: ALBERTSON'S, INC. Large supermarket chain carrying Canadian seafood products. SOURCE: http://www.albertsons.com

Larry Johnston, Chairman of the Board, President & CEO, Albertson’s, Inc. 250 E. Parkcenter Blvd. Boise, ID 83706 ph: 1-877-932-7948 Dave Parker Vice President, investor relations: david.parker@.com; ph: 208-395-6622 Mike Beckstead, Manager, investor relations: [email protected]; ph: 208-395-4468 customer care: [email protected] careers: [email protected] inventory management: [email protected] distribution operations: [email protected] grocery merchandising: [email protected] security & privacy: [email protected]; request literature: [email protected] web email: https://www.albertsons.com/abs_aboutalbertsons/dearalbertsons/contactus.asp

Target: / SAFEWAY Large supermarket chain carrying Canadian seafood products. SOURCE: http://shop.safeway.com/superstore/default.asp?brandid=1

Steven A. Burd, Chairman, President & CEO, Safeway, Inc. 8060 S. Kyrene Rd. Tempe, AZ 85284 ph: 1-877-723-3929 (U.S.), 1-800-723-3929 (Canada) customer service inquiry: [email protected] suppliers: [email protected]; safeway corporate: [email protected] privacy policy: [email protected] web email: http://shop.safeway.com/superstore/default.asp?brandid=1 ALL ELECTRONIC ADDRESSES IN THIS ALERT Sample letter on next page [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] web email: http://www.redlobster.com/contactus.asp web email: http://investor.dardenrestaurants.com/abt_comment.cfm web email: http://www.shellsseafood.com/process.cfm?PageID=8 web email: http://www.wildoats.com/u/contact/ Board of Wild Oats Markets: Inc.https://www.corpcomcontact.com/emailNET/oats/sox301.aspx web email: https://www.albertsons.com/abs_aboutalbertsons/dearalbertsons/contactus.asp web email: http://shop.safeway.com/superstore/default.asp?brandid=1 Red Lobster, Darden Restaurants, Shells, Wild Oats Market, Albertson's, inc., Safeway, Inc.: I write to ask for your support in halting the Canadian seal hunt. I trust your reputable company does not endorse the world’s largest and most unsustainable slaughter of marine wildlife.

Here is how you can help: Join other restaurants, grocery stores, and -related establishments in a pledge to eliminate Canadian-caught fish.

Canada’s Dept. of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) has declared it will only terminate the annual hunt if fishery corporations demand it. Since Americans buy roughly 70% of seafood exports from Canada, a boycott would financially strain the fisheries—and ultimately force them to call for an end to the violent seal kill.

Even if your company refuses to buy or sell seal products, it sustains the hunt through its purchase of Canadian seafood. Most sealers are fishermen who lobby for the hunt because they ascribe to the invalid link between harp seals and diminishing cod. Some directly participate in seal slaughter and processing.

Polls indicate nearly 80% of Americans and Europeans disapprove of the seal hunt, with many prepared to personally boycott Canadian seafood until it ends. Evidently, a consumer majority would respect your willingness to boycott an industry with ties to the massacre of more than one million seals.

There is no credible rationale to convince an informed public the seal hunt is humane. In 2001, for example, a team of impartial veterinarians determined that 42% of examined seals did not suffer sufficient cranial injury to render them unconscious. They concluded the seals were likely cognizant when skinned.

During a single March-April hunt, witnesses documented over 660 violations of Canada’s Marine Mammal Regulations. “We filmed seals being skinned alive right in front of us,” one observer told the BBC (4/7/04).

Photographic images from the 2005 hunt revealed whitecoat pups gunned down, pounded in the skull, kicked in the face, and thrashed with hakapiks. These six- to eight-week old seals were defenseless on the ice, barely able to swim.

I urge you to take part in the cessation of this depravity. If the Canadian seafood industry feels the fallout of a global boycott, they will turn to federal officials. Perhaps the Canadian government will finally stop the scientifically, economically and ethically indefensible seal hunt.

Respectfully,