Walmart, Safeway investigate fishing slave labor

Two of America’s largest grocery chains are investigating whether slave labor is rife on commercial fishing boats operating in New Zealand waters.

This comes just ahead of the release of a New Zealand Government report that looks into human rights abuses on foreign fishing boats operating here.

Walmart and Safeway are both reviewing the New Zealand fish they import after a six-month investigation by the news agency Bloomberg reported Indonesian crew were physically abused, over worked and not paid.

Click here to read the full story from New Zealand’s 3 News > 

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