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Slaves Used To Catch Fish That End Up On U.S. Tables
Times Union / AP ^ | 24 March 2015 | Margie Mason, Martha Mendoza and Robin McDowell, Associated Press

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at timesunion.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: benjina; burma; chickenofthesea; commercialfishing; indonesia; kingfisherholdings; myanmar; pbr; pusakabenjina; seafood; silversealine; silverseareefer; slavery; thailand; thaiunion
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To: GeronL

No, but slavery is also illegal in Sudan and Saudi Arabia and it seems to make no difference.


21 posted on 04/03/2015 6:06:45 PM PDT by Squawk 8888 (Will steal your comments & post them on Twitter)
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To: dsc

Yup we’re in hell already.


22 posted on 04/03/2015 6:09:56 PM PDT by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.....)
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To: Caipirabob

I grow as much food as possible in my back yard so that I can pay a little more for other things. One would be meat born, raised, slaughtered, and packaged in my county. The other is seafood caught and packaged in the USA.


23 posted on 04/03/2015 6:11:03 PM PDT by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: Lorianne

Hope not but wouldn’t be too surprised. He’s on the board of the public universities in Cali and several of them have turned into nazi- infested cesspools — and thus far at least we haven’t heard of him or the good governor out there cleaning the scum out.


24 posted on 04/03/2015 6:14:50 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (Foolish people ... have eyes and see not)
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To: Lorianne

Now that AP has exposed this atrocity, I’m certain Al Sharpton will demand justice for the victims as soon as he can determine who to shake down. Right after he finishes his smoked paprika roasted salmon on wilted spinach gourmet dinner at Barry’s house.


25 posted on 04/03/2015 6:15:52 PM PDT by Free in Texas (Member of the Bitter Clingers Association.)
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To: Rio
Cow-orker just came back from a two-week tuna-fishing trip of SoCal.

Yeah, well once I heard of a woman who went on an overnight fishing trip with a boat full of men. She came back with a red snapper.

26 posted on 04/03/2015 6:16:11 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Doctrine doesn't change. The trick is to find a way around it.)
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To: tumblindice

I LOVE AMERICA


27 posted on 04/03/2015 6:17:04 PM PDT by Eddie01 (Liberals lie about everything all the time.)
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To: goodwithagun

Here in the Missouri Ozarks, a family can just about live off the land. Fish are available year round. Turkey, deer, other small game. Pheasants to the north of us. Low taxes.
Need firewood ?


28 posted on 04/03/2015 6:17:17 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks ("If he were working for the other side, what would he be doing differently ?")
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To: Rio

I lived next to a tuna fisherman in El Cajon (”So. CA’s heat-sink”).
He knew we had two cats (the girlfriend’s) and was nice enough to throw a big chunk of a tuna our way. I spent the best part of a day butchering and packing tuna into tupperware for freezing.
The felines did that twining around my legs-thing, yelling at me to hurry up, demanding tidbits ... I was a slave to cats.


29 posted on 04/03/2015 6:20:07 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: US_MilitaryRules

I’ll bet Terayzuh Heinz Kerry has some money in there somewhere


30 posted on 04/03/2015 6:22:33 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: faithhopecharity

Oh please ! LOL.

Everything is a racket of the elites.

Sometimes the minions are let in directly to cash in.

Star-Kist and Chicken of the Sea are Kalifornia companies - Remember the story on Pelosi and the American Samoa exemption ???

It’s all a racket !

Remember US Marine General Smedley Butler - even war is a racket !

Thanks for givin’ me some laughs...


31 posted on 04/03/2015 6:27:22 PM PDT by PieterCasparzen (Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.)
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To: Lorianne

I keep talkin’ about new world order -

they’ve been trading in gold, opium and slaves for centuries and they’re still at it.

In both legal and illegal marketplaces.


32 posted on 04/03/2015 6:28:45 PM PDT by PieterCasparzen (Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.)
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To: Lorianne

BOY Deadliest catch going sucks this season LOL!


33 posted on 04/03/2015 6:32:48 PM PDT by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: US_MilitaryRules

The media gives us enough info to make us angry but never enough to create public pressure on connected political or corporate cronies or bankers that are making the pile of money. They never give the names and addresses of those in the chain of money from these operations. They need to name names even if they have (and they typically do) political connections.


34 posted on 04/03/2015 6:33:26 PM PDT by apoliticalone
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To: RetiredTexasVet

Don’t tell Tim Cook, for goodness sake. It might shake up his organization.


35 posted on 04/03/2015 6:35:12 PM PDT by rovenstinez
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To: Lorianne

Your seafood may come from slaves.

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Not my seafood; I refuse to buy any fish that is not labeled “US” and “wild caught”.


36 posted on 04/03/2015 6:39:34 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Let's put the ship of state on Cruz Control with Ted Cruz.)
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To: Lorianne

Jesse Jackson owes them reparations.


37 posted on 04/03/2015 6:40:06 PM PDT by LibWhacker ("Every Muslim act of terror is follow by a political act of cover-up." -Daniel Greenfield)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Lol! The only food I won’t get from our native land (two deer still in the freezer) is fish. I’m in the Ohio Valley. There’s no way I’m eating anything out of that river!


38 posted on 04/03/2015 6:40:54 PM PDT by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: Caipirabob

If the factory global farmers and food processors like Monsanto have their way with us, we will have an unfree market and opaque labeling without GMO or country of origin. The only information on the label will be Corn or fish from global sources.

My own view is I want to know what is in my food and where it originates. Too many in Congress are in the bag. Let the free market decide if it wants to buy GMO or Chinese fish.


39 posted on 04/03/2015 6:43:38 PM PDT by apoliticalone
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To: goodwithagun
Let me tell you a story about the Cuyahoga someday...
40 posted on 04/03/2015 6:44:00 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks ("If he were working for the other side, what would he be doing differently ?")
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