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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.

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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: Lorianne

I’m sorry but anybody who gets to fish for a living is not a slave.


41 posted on 04/03/2015 6:47:45 PM PDT by rabidralph
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To: apoliticalone

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.


42 posted on 04/03/2015 6:50:03 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

I’m originally from that area, lol! I never saw it on fire, though.


43 posted on 04/03/2015 6:51:08 PM PDT by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: apoliticalone

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.


44 posted on 04/03/2015 6:54:33 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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45 posted on 04/03/2015 6:57:28 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: Lorianne
Slaves Used To Catch Fish That End Up On U.S. Tables

Slaves used to do a lot of things. Does this mean that 150-year-old fish are ending up on U.S. tables?

46 posted on 04/03/2015 6:58:51 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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To: JimSEA
Yeah, it's YOUR fault, not the muzzies who actually enslave them.
47 posted on 04/03/2015 7:00:25 PM PDT by fhayek
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To: Lorianne

No one in power or media cares about real slavery and atrocities.

But they obsess over fake ones.


48 posted on 04/03/2015 7:04:19 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.)
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To: tumblindice

LOL!

Well played...


49 posted on 04/03/2015 7:08:25 PM PDT by SunTzuWu
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To: goodwithagun

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.


50 posted on 04/03/2015 7:09:02 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: goodwithagun

BTW, the Steelhead season just opened on the Brule River in Wisconsin...


51 posted on 04/03/2015 7:12:07 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: Lorianne

Non-black slaves lives matter.


52 posted on 04/03/2015 7:25:21 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Lorianne

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


53 posted on 04/03/2015 7:41:44 PM PDT by Joe Boucher ( Obammy is a lie, a mooselimb and pond scum.)
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To: faithhopecharity

“why eat krap”

Sawadee Krap.


54 posted on 04/03/2015 8:00:46 PM PDT by Flash Bazbeaux
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To: Flash Bazbeaux

Ha! That too I guess. Thanks.


55 posted on 04/03/2015 8:05:41 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (Foolish people ... have eyes and see not)
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To: Lorianne

Most have been freed:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3024148/Fishermen-rush-rescued-amid-Indonesian-slavery-probe.html


56 posted on 04/03/2015 8:30:04 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: tumblindice
Cats and tuna go together like dogs and pizza crusts. We have five, and the second they hear the can opener cracking open the Chicken Of The Sea, it's bedlam. They look like a pack of rats on a bag of Cheetos. LOL We have to use five saucers, or it gets ugly.


57 posted on 04/03/2015 8:54:08 PM PDT by Viking2002 (The Avatar is back by popular request.)
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To: tumblindice

If it smells like fish, Mr. Nancy Pelosi must be somewhere close!


58 posted on 04/03/2015 9:17:52 PM PDT by urbanpovertylawcenter (the law and poverty collide in an urban setting and sparks fly)
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To: urbanpovertylawcenter

I like tuna too. You can tune a piano, but you can’t tune a fish.


59 posted on 04/03/2015 10:10:17 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Lorianne

Would this qualify the fish as being an “organic” product?


60 posted on 04/04/2015 12:34:54 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Isn't it funny that Socialists never want to share their own money?)
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