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Mazzetta CEO: Wrong to condemn entire seafood industry on labor abuse

Mazzetta CEO asserts that working with Thailand, not boycotts is the best way to rid the seafood supply chain of slavery

By Undercurrent News | Dec. 28, 2015 18:20 GMT
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The following is a letter from Tom Mazzetta, the CEO of US shrimp and seafood importer Mazzetta Company

On December 14, 2016, the Associated Press ran an article entitled “Global Supermarkets Selling Shrimp Peeled by Slaves.”

The article was based on an AP investigation into labor abuses, human trafficking, and modern day slavery in the shrimp supply chain in Thailand [...]

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