The True Cost of Shrimp

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)
The global shrimp industry has become the largest seafood industry in the world at the expense of worker and human rights, claims a new report released by the Solidarity Center, AFL-CIO. The report – “The True Cost of Shrimp” – will be released at a panel discussion today at 9:30A on Capitol Hill. “The true cost of shrimp is not what is seen on a supermarket price tag or restaurant menu,” says the Solidarity Center. Our research uncovered “pervasive worker and human rights violations [in the industry] such as low-wage sweatshop conditions, use of child and forced labor, and global supply chains that drive wages down and hide the exploitation of workers.”