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Purina and Mars Admit Fish Caught by Slaves May Be in Your Pet Food
Imagine you walk down the aisle and choose your favorite fish-flavored cat food; you pause to consider the price or the ingredients. Maybe it’s a Mars brand or a Nestle Purina brand. It doesn’t really matter. Because the story I’m going to tell you will forever change how you look at the fish-flavored cat food. The brightly colored, little tin…
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Flavored with Slavery: Fish Flavored Pet Food
If your pet food contains fish meal or fish oil harvested and processed in Asia, it probably was processed by the slave trade. Following the Guardian’s expose of slavery in Thailand’s shrimp industry last June, which described horrific conditions on the boats supplying fisheries, including trafficked or bonded labor (aka slave labor), methamphetamine-fueled 20-hour shifts, regular beatings, torture, and execution-style…
