Thailands' slave ships.

joseph brand

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12881982

http://envirolib.org/blogs/thai-fishing-and-slavery/

“their nets sometimes snagged bodies of crew dumped from other ships.”

Now you know how prawns and other fish from Thailand can be sold so cheap.

dory

Jaysis. Not unusual unfortunately. Slavery is alive and well. Thousands of women are sold as sex slaves every year.

JONJO THE MISER

joseph brand wrote: »

Now you know how prawns and other fish from Thailand can be sold so cheap.

Thanks for the info, speaking of prawns i believe Lidl have a 2 for 1 offer on them this week, must stock up tomorrow.

Ghandee

someting weely weely fishy about this story............
You go now!

airyChinesekid

FFS i knew we as an island were importing fish from scotland like the morons we are but surely not sea-food from thailand.

bonerm

There's nothing worse than as you're below deck whipping Number 41 that between her legs something unexpected pops up.

policarp

Not very new.
Turkish construction workers were working
for less than minimum wages here a few years ago.

joseph brand

The article really stirs up images of pirates (the ones with parrots on their shoulders and wooden legs, shouting "ARRRRRR!"

It seems unusual that massive oil tankers and other such vessels boarded off Somalia by 'pirates' (where there are almost no casualties), should get more press than these slave ships. Which are not confined to Thailand.

So, Thailand has Burmese slaves, but America has Thai slaves.

Makes 'Deadliest Catch' look like 'Home and Away'.

joseph brand

policarp wrote: »

Not very new.
Turkish construction workers were working
for less than minimum wages here a few years ago.

Ahh that's the same as being decapitated. Plus, there's no fish to be caught on construction sites.

RichieC

policarp wrote: »

Turkish construction workers were working
for less than minimum wages here a few years ago.

WHAT? we had turkish slaves in Ireland and no one told me? :mad:

lesserspottedchloe

jesus...it seems the only way to avoid supporting this crap is to strictly shop locally and in season or else buy fairtrade. Was in southern Vietnam before in an area where they were farming prawns in nets along the coastline, children and adults labouring very hard and living dirt poor-didn't think it could get much worse but this is awful

I live by 'if it seems too good to be true it probably is' Most of our clothing, appliances and food is produced in Eastern countries by people who are treated very badly with no hope of escape so that we can save a euro or profit a dollar.

We live in a world where you can make a profit growing potatoes in Egypt to export to Ireland ffs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4A104SRrMNM

Atlantic Dawn

airyChinesekid wrote: »

FFS i knew we as an island were importing fish from scotland like the morons we are but surely not sea-food from thailand.

Yes it's crazy, there's currently more whitefish being landed in our airports than there is in our ports by our fishing fleet.

policarp

joseph brand wrote: »

Ahh that's the same as being decapitated. Plus, there's no fish to be caught on construction sites.

Do you have to be decapitated to be a slave?
Chorus of the Hebrew Whales?

RichieC wrote: »

WHAT? we had turkish slaves in Ireland and no one told me? :mad:

What is the defination of a slave?

Eric Cartman

in order for the world to survive , there has to be somebody at the bottom who gets treated like sh*t , it was once us , right now its some people in asia, when they get up to speed on human rights and wages then well go back to abusing africa, after they get up to speed south america or some other place will probably be broke and well abuse them , its how the world works

if i get cheaper prawns because of it , ahh well, theres always a silver lining

bonzodog2

I watched an interesting documentary a couple of months back on the life of the people who do the crap jobs in the hotels in Thailand, e.g. the housekeepers who change the sheets etc. One woman hadn't seen her (young) kids for 2 years, and they earnt the equiv of 6 STG a day.

Dyr

All those poor, poor fish

goose2005

fookin prawns

Baked.noodle

Came across this article by The Guardian from a just over a month ago and too my surprise I found this old thread about this very issue. It seems not a lot has been done by the retail giants so far, so is it ridiculous to expect them to actually do something about it?

A six-month investigation has established that large numbers of men bought and sold like animals and held against their will on fishing boats off Thailand are integral to the production of prawns (commonly called shrimp in the US) sold in leading supermarkets around the world, including the top four global retailers: Walmart, Carrefour, Costco and Tesco.

In addition to Walmart, Carrefour, Costco and Tesco, the Guardian has identified Aldi, Morrisons, the Co-operative and Iceland as customers of CP Foods. They all sell frozen or cooked prawns, or ready meals such as prawn stir fry, supplied by CP Foods and its subsidiaries. CP Foods admits that slave labour is part of its supply chain.

"If you buy prawns or shrimp from Thailand, you will be buying the produce of slave labour," said Aidan McQuade, director of Anti-Slavery International.

Wompa1

joseph brand wrote: »

So, Thailand has Burmese slaves, but America has Thai slaves.

Makes 'Deadliest Catch' look like 'Home and Away'.

Hmmmm...must ask my Thai girlfriend about that. Can't say I've seen many of the 'oul Thai slaves over here