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www.seattletimes.com...
Costco’s purchases of Thailand’s farmed prawns, which are fed a diet of cheap fish caught at sea with unpaid, forced labor, helps prop up an industry whose practices are ignored by local authorities, according to the complaint filed Wednesday in San Francisco federal court.
“Human suffering cannot be ignored to enhance a company’s economic bottom line,” plaintiffs’ lawyer Niall McCarthy, of Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, said in a statement. “California consumers are unknowingly supporting slave labor.”
The suit says the United States is the largest importer of Thai seafood, purchasing $1.7 billion a year, and that shrimp is the most common seafood purchased in America.
www.rt.com...
Charoen Pokphand (CP) Foods, based in Thailand, uses fishmeal, a commercial product made from fish and the bones and offal (or entrails) from processed fish, to feed the shrimp it farms.
That fishmeal is bought from suppliers using “large numbers of men bought and sold like animals and held against their will on fishing boats,” the Guardian reported after a six-month investigation into the industry. CP Foods is the world’s largest shrimp farmer, and supplies the seafood to global retailers like Walmart, Costco, Carrefour and Tesco.
"If this kind of abuse were happing in Boston and New York, or London and Manchester, the industry would be shut down overnight," Trent said. "Just because it's coming from a country a long way a way the players are happy to ignore it."
originally posted by: KingKelson
That's interesting yet kind of disturbing. Especially since I was recently hired at Costco.
originally posted by: Witness2008
a reply to: jude11
Your op had a ATS banner that said the link was removed due to some type of legal action. I don't see the banner now.
originally posted by: reldra
a reply to: jude11
You either used a source that is not allowed or you didn't give credit properly.
- that looks better now.