If you investigated why bananas are so inexpensive I think you would probably think twice before buying them. Having just read about the pitiful wages and working conditions I am now looking for a source of Fair Trade bananas.
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Most all tropical lobster tails that you see in stores come from either the Honduras/Nicaragua or Brazilian suppliers.
I don't think anybody would knowingly support this ongoing human tragedy.
Bob started working on this problem back in the early 1980s, I guess it's just not sexy enough to attract the right kind of attention, the injured live in rather remote, coastal villages and are not right up in anyone's face.The store I frequent lists the source as Honduras.
I wonder why more isn't being done to bring this to people's attention? I don't think anybody would knowingly support this ongoing human tragedy.
To begin to grasp the problem read the article I linked to above. It is not a question of a better life through lobster.If these people are undergoing hazardous conditions to get lobsters to sell, I take it they may not have better opportunities. If we don't eat lobsters, they may be stuck with something even worse.
It's like the alleged sweat shop situation in China & some other countries; I assume for people working in them, that's the best they can currently do, and if you took their sweat shop away, they'd be even worse off.
Sad and sick as it sounds, sometimes the thing worse than having a sweat shop job is not having a sweat shop job.
Do these lobster divers have better opportunities doing something else? If so, are they just kept ignorant of the risks & taken advantage of, then the disabled ones discarded? That would be another matter, if so.
Richard.