Eat only Alaskan seafood!

Having already doomed any "natural" sourcing from the world's oceans, our insatiable demand for seafood is going to drive increasingly desperate measures to obtain it. The best hope for these workers is that more automated methods of harvest and processing can be devised, much as has been done for traditional agriculture. As long as the rising global middle class continues to consume deep fried prawns or king crab legs, this is only going to get worse.

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This isn't just a matter of desperate measures. We don't just want seafood; we want *cheap* seafood, which is where the slavery comes in.

And large retailers bear a huge amount of responsibility for this with the way they push down wholesale prices by squeezing their suppliers and the way they will not allow suppliers to increase their prices even in the face of cost increases outside of the supplier's control.

It's Carrefour, not Correfour.

Thanks, fixed.

Shocking that an industry based on killing animals and selling their corpses is immoral. If you get the easiest moral question wrong, chances are you won't get any other moral question right.

What about sardines? There was a BBC series about Burmese slaves on Thai sardine boats this past fall, I am pretty sure. That is not food for cultured seafood, that is product for cans that comes straight to humans. Not that the food chain per se is that different, but there is a bunch more going on than just frou frou discount shrimp.

It's Labour, not Labor.