Like so many must have consumer products for the developed worlds markets nobody ever asks who made these available to us. Like Apple computers made in China, or clothes manufactured in Bangladesh or those Nike shoes that you love made by damn near slave labor in Vietnam and Indonesia. It's ok because it feeds your desire to have the latest in consumer products. No matter that the person or persons who produced it aren't paid a living wage just as long as you can have it at a reasonable price.
Revealed: Asian slave labour producing prawns for supermarkets in US, UK
Thai "ghost ships" that enslave, brutalise and even kill workers are linked to global prawn supply chain, Guardian investigation discovers
• Trafficked into slavery on Thai trawlers to catch food for prawns
• Thailand's seafood industry: state-sanctioned slavery?
• Thailand's seafood industry: state-sanctioned slavery?
Slaves forced to work for no pay for years at a time under threat of extreme violence are being used in Asia in the production of seafood sold by major US, British and other European retailers, the Guardian can reveal.
A six-month investigation has established that large numbers of men bought and sold like animals and held against their will on fishing boats off Thailandare integral to the production of prawns (commonly called shrimp in the US) sold in leading supermarkets around the world, including the top four global retailers: Walmart, Carrefour, Costco and Tesco.
The investigation found that the world's largest prawn farmer, the Thailand-based Charoen Pokphand (CP) Foods, buys fishmeal, which it feeds to its farmed prawns, from some suppliers that own, operate or buy from fishing boats manned with slaves.
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