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10 Charts That Explain Why A Slave May Well Have Caught The Shrimp On Your Grill This Summer

Gwynn Guilford | Quartz | June 11, 2014

If you’re a seafood eater in North America, Japan, or Europe, chances are good that someone endured torture, beatings, sleep deprivation and wage-theft to bring you your shrimp cocktail. That’s the upshot of a harrowing must-read Guardian piece on the rampant abuses in Thailand’s fishing export trade (an issue we’ve reported on in the past). [...] Read More »

Globalised Slavery: How Big Supermarkets Are Selling Prawns In Supply Chain Fed By Slave Labour – Video

Staff Writer | The Guardian | June 10, 2014

A six-month Guardian multimedia investigation has, for the first time, tracked how some of the world's big-supermakets, Tesco, Aldi, Walmart and Morrisons, are using suppliers relying on slave labour to put cheap prawns on their shelves. Slavery is back and here's the proof. Read More »

How To Buy Slavery-Free Prawns – And Have A Positive Impact On The Industry

Steve Trent | The Guardian | June 10, 2014

Wield your consumer power to help remove slavery from the Thai seafood supply chain, says the executive director of the Environmental Justice Foundation Read More »

Revealed: Asian Slave Labour Producing Prawns For Supermarkets In US, UK

Kate Hodal, Chris Kelly, and Felicity Lawrence | The Guardian | June 10, 2014

Thai 'ghost ships' that enslave and even kill workers are linked to global shrimp supply chain, Guardian investigation discovers Read More »

Thailand's Seafood Industry: A Case Of State-Sanctioned Slavery?

Felicity Lawrence | The Guardian | June 10, 2014

Slavery is illegal, yet it is driving Thailand's growth – so why are retailers, producers and governments alike turning a blind eye? Read More »

Trafficked Into Slavery On Thai Trawlers To Catch Food For Prawns

Kate Hodal and Chris Kelly | The Guardian | June 10, 2014

The Thai fishing industry is built on slavery, with men often beaten, tortured and sometimes killed - all to catch 'trash fish' to feed the cheap farmed prawns sold in the west Read More »