Posted on 04/03/2015 5:30:46 PM PDT by Lorianne
Benjina, Indonesia ___ The Burmese slaves sat on the floor and stared through the rusty bars of their locked cage, hidden on a tiny tropical island thousands of miles from home.
Just a few yards away, other workers loaded cargo ships with slave-caught seafood that clouds the supply networks of major supermarkets, restaurants and even pet stores in the United States.
Here, in the Indonesian island village of Benjina and the surrounding waters, hundreds of trapped men represent one of the most desperate links criss-crossing between companies and countries in the seafood industry. This intricate web of connections separates the fish we eat from the men who catch it, and obscures a brutal truth: Your seafood may come from slaves.
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A lot of tuna and other canned food comes from Thailand today. We have dolphin-free tuna, so why not slave-free tuna too?
Slaves probably figure in a lot of global markets we don’t commonly think much about.
Its a thing we need to STOP dead in its tracks. Stamp out slavery with nukes—tell any ofending nation—if they keep on doing this they will be obliterated from the planet—slaves and all. Blow up a few nations and it will stop and lower the excess population in the process.
Johm Riab Sua to you.
StarKist? That would be interesting. StarKist has benefited in the past from special consideration by Nancy Pelosi. (wiki: "Pelosi co-sponsored legislation that omitted American Samoa from a raise in the minimum wage as early as 1999, prior to Del Monte's acquisition of StarKist Tuna in 2002.)
Not saying StarKist involved, but IF they were involved:
As far as her political career went, it would be poetic justice exposing for the corrupt hypocrite she is.
nah
Since Fukishima we kinda lost our taste for seafood. :-)
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