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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I’m sorry but anybody who gets to fish for a living is not a slave.
If there’s such a big market for non-GMO food then those who grow non-GMO food would label THEIR products as such; the fact is that these folks and the organic industry want to force their competition to bear the burden of labeling.
There’s nothing at all wrong with GMO food, in fact it can and will save millions of people from vitamin-deficiency that causes blindness, etc., in the case of just one crop- golden rice.
I’m originally from that area, lol! I never saw it on fire, though.
Maybe you should look at the materials you’ve been reading because you sound like you have been sucked in by Fenton Communications, the same communist-founded PR [or rather, anti-PR] firm that initiated the alar scare to hurt Washington farmers and the milk hormone scare on behalf of Ben&Jerry’s. Another of their clients is the Sierra Club.
David Fenton is behind much of the GMO propaganda as is the European Union which is protecting its agriculture lobby.
Slaves used to do a lot of things. Does this mean that 150-year-old fish are ending up on U.S. tables?
No one in power or media cares about real slavery and atrocities.
But they obsess over fake ones.
LOL!
Well played...
Nor did I.
But I tell you a little history. home to a very leaky refinery, across from LTV Steel, upriver from the lake. It positively oozed oil.
I spent earned money on interrupting the flow of oil into the river with a series of pumps. The crud we brought up was sold to a local asphalt company.
Just when we thought we had a corner on the project, more oil would flow onto our land from an adjacent property.
The past few years have seen a marked reduction in oil moving into the water.
BTW, the Steelhead season just opened on the Brule River in Wisconsin...
Non-black slaves lives matter.
HEY,
If it is ok for mooselimb mookabookers to have slaves do their horse crap work, and the dems condone it,
Why can’t i too?
Hey obammy, F U
“why eat krap”
Sawadee Krap.
Ha! That too I guess. Thanks.
Most have been freed:
If it smells like fish, Mr. Nancy Pelosi must be somewhere close!
I like tuna too. You can tune a piano, but you can’t tune a fish.
Would this qualify the fish as being an “organic” product?
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