Posted on 10/07/2017 8:55:24 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
US Customs vows to block imports of seafood and goods from North Korea workers
POSTED 10:11 AM, OCTOBER 6, 2017, BY WQAD DIGITAL TEAM
U.S. Customs and Border Protection says it is ready to block U.S. imports of seafood — as well as any other goods — produced by North Korean laborers who work in China.
An Associated Press investigation tracked salmon, squid and cod processed by North Koreans working at Chinese factories and shipped to American stores, including Walmart and ALDI. The North Korean workers found in Chinese factories aren’t allowed to leave, and receive only a fraction of their pay — most goes straight to the North Korean state. This means that American consumers buying seafood labeled “Caught in the USA, Processed in China” may inadvertently be subsidizing the government of Kim Jong Un as it builds nuclear weapons, and also supporting forced labor.
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“Caught in the USA, Processed in China”
I started to pay attention to fish about 4 years ago and have never seen that label. All you usually see is Distributed by... “ From what I’ve read most US sold pre-packaged frozen fish is processed in China.
Same goes for fish oil and vitamins esp vitamin C.
A few years ago the US started buying cooked chicken from China. Where is that going? Into dog food? Our chicken nuggets???
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Most US sold pre-packaged frozen fish is processed aboard the vessels that caught it.
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Starkist tuna is marked “made in America”.... American Somoa using Korean workers. I don’t know if North or South.
Sounds like they need the FairTax more than we do!
Back in the days of my youth and right up through the 80s, at the marina down the street from my home, they used to clean or fillet the day's catch at dockside and throw the waste into the river. Needless to say, crabs were abundant, large and easily caught, and small baitfish as well that were feasting on the bounty. Now the heads, guts and racks (bones) are put into trash containers, which even though covered can get pretty smelly between pickups. The crab population is way down, too.
Would the North be likely to let them leave Lil' Kim's tender loving care, to work for Americans?
But the landfills are full and growing ... just what the wackos hate - putting the waste from cleaning fish back into the water is not pollution, but recycling: a concept over the heads of most envirowackos.
Ilwaco Washington has a fish processing plant.
Also poultry.
Almost all of it.
I have known about this for a long time. It's just what it is.
2013
Give up fighting it. There are no labels...
Yes, so does a number of places in coastal WA. The point is in the post that waste is not recycled back into the ocean any longer, not who has a processor.
For years, Japanese fishing ships would work the legal offshore limit of our West Coast, can the fish on board and sell the processed product here.
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