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A Viral Petition Says Trader Joe's Parent Company Murders Whales: Don't Believe It - Svati Kirsten Narula - The Atlantic
by thenewgreen

    A popular SumOfUs.org petition is calling on concerned citizens to "Tell Trader Joe's parent company to stop killing whales with plastic waste!"

    I love Trader Joe's, and I love whales. So when a link to the petition popped up in my newsfeed, of course I clicked. But after reading just its first sentence—

    A sperm whale that washed up in Spain died after swallowing almost 60 different pieces of plastic dumped by the greenhouses that supply Trader Joe's parent company, Aldi. —it was apparent that the connection between this dead whale and the grocery store was rather tenuous.