Trash fish: It’s gross, tainted by slavery and possibly in your dog food

A laborer from Myanmar works in the hull of a Thai fishing vessel. Trash fish caught by forced laborers is a key ingredient in fish sauce, pet food and shrimp feed. (Nicolas Asfouri/AFP/Getty Images)

June 18, 2014 11:35
BANGKOK — For years, it was a poorly kept secret. Thailand’s fishing industry — a key supplier to the US — is entangled in barbaric slavery.

Today, slave labor on Thai trawlers is no longer a secret. It’s a worldwide scandal.

Trash Fish It’s Gross, Tainted by Slavery and Possibly in Your Dog Food by Maria Anderson