The National Chef's Club has canceled a controversial sponsorship deal with the salmon farming company Arnarlax. Fourteen of the seventeen members of the National Culinary Team had resigned from the team in protest of the sponsorship deal which they argue violates the team's principle of only using foods and ingredients produced sustainably and in harmony with nature.
Arnarlax raises salmon in open net pens, which conservationists say endanger wild salmon stocks and threaten local marine ecosystems due to pollution.
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The board of the Chef's Club met earlier today to discuss the mass resignations from the National Culinary Team. One of Iceland's best chefs, Sturla Birgisson, had also quit the Chef's Club in protest of the sponsorship deal. Björn Bragi Bragaso, the president of the club told the local newspaper Fréttablaðið that the club had made the sponsorship deal in good faith, and that the club had never intended for the deal to be seen as an endorsement by the club or the National Culinary Team of the company Arnarlax, or its production methods.
Arnarlax failed to honor its side of the deal
The Chef's Club points out that Arnarlax had also failed to keep up its part of the sponsorship deal. According to the deal, which was signed on August 20, the company was to make its first payment on September 1. This payment was never made, and one of the reasons we cite for canceling the deal is this failure by Arnarlax to honor the contract the company signed, Björn Bragi told the local news site Vísir.
A spokesman for Arnarlax told Vísir that the company and its staff were saddened by the decision of the Chef's Club.
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The National Chef's Club has canceled a controversial sponsorship deal with the salmon farming company Arnarlax. Fourteen of the seventeen members of the National Culinary Team had resigned from the team in protest of the sponsorship deal which they argue violates the team's principle of only using foods and ingredients produced sustainably and in harmony with nature.
Arnarlax raises salmon in open net pens, which conservationists say endanger wild salmon stocks and threaten local marine ecosystems due to pollution.
Read more: Mass resignations from Icelandic National Culinary Team: Reject unsustainably farmed salmon
The board of the Chef's Club met earlier today to discuss the mass resignations from the National Culinary Team. One of Iceland's best chefs, Sturla Birgisson, had also quit the Chef's Club in protest of the sponsorship deal. Björn Bragi Bragaso, the president of the club told the local newspaper Fréttablaðið that the club had made the sponsorship deal in good faith, and that the club had never intended for the deal to be seen as an endorsement by the club or the National Culinary Team of the company Arnarlax, or its production methods.
Arnarlax failed to honor its side of the deal
The Chef's Club points out that Arnarlax had also failed to keep up its part of the sponsorship deal. According to the deal, which was signed on August 20, the company was to make its first payment on September 1. This payment was never made, and one of the reasons we cite for canceling the deal is this failure by Arnarlax to honor the contract the company signed, Björn Bragi told the local news site Vísir.
A spokesman for Arnarlax told Vísir that the company and its staff were saddened by the decision of the Chef's Club.
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