Noticias
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- Report
ties U.S. retailers to sweatshop shrimp [CNN]
Americans on average eat three pounds of shrimp a year, but can U.S. shoppers be sure the shrimp they love was produced without slave labor?
- US
official decries shrimp industry 'slavery' [Reuters]
Shrimp processing in Bangladesh involved widespread use of subcontracted workers to replace better-paid full-time workers, and significant amounts of child labor. Laws governing workers hours and safety conditions are often ignored and promised overtime wages are often not paid, the report said.
- Sweatshop
shrimp [Bangkok Post (Thailand)]
"We hold our shrimp suppliers to the highest safety and quality standards," Wal-Mart spokesman Deisha Galberth told the CNN cable-TV network, "including maintaining processing plants and packaging facilities that meet or exceed Best Aquaculture Practices standards set by the Global Aquaculture Alliance."