I am likely to be cooking prawns sometime over the Christmas period, and not just any prawns.
Those of you who read The Age (a Melbourne newspaper) may have read:
Date December 15, 2015
Woolies, Coles, Aldi caught up in child labour scandal
Woolworths, Coles and Aldi are embroiled in a child labour scandal, with all three supermarket chains confirming they sell prawns or seafood supplied by a Thai company at the centre of the allegations.
Graphic evidence of forced labour, including child labour, has been uncovered at a prawn peeling factory owned by major seafood supplier Thai Union.
An investigation by Associated Press found hundreds of workers at the company’s factories working under poor conditions with some workers, mainly from Myanmar, locked inside or otherwise unable to leave the factory……
I am always fussy about the prawns I buy.
You may be interested in this Prawn Guide:
This guide will help you choose more sustainable and ethical prawns this Summer.
Other useful sites:
Prawns · Australia’s Sustainable Seafood Guide; www.sustainableseafood.org.au/fish.php/1/72/prawns
Prawns farmed in Australia are produced on land in ponds and tanks, with the majority of farms located on the QLD coast adjacent to the Great Barrier Reef …
Dec 18, 2013 – Australians are set to munch through half a billion prawns this Christmas. But where do all those prawns come from? And can we feel good as …
King Prawns, Wild Caught Prawns, Certified Prawns:www.spencergulfkingprawns.com.au/
logo Certified Sustainable Seafood – MSC … Spencer Gulf King Prawns are an Australian product, caught and packed in Australia. The highest level of quality …
Sustainable Queensland Prawns – wild catch and etc: www.queenslandprawns.com/sustainability.htm
Queensland Prawns logo, Sustainability information for wild caught and … Queensland’s prawn fisheries and aquaculture are among the most carefully … of the farmed prawns in Australia – while there are some in NSW, it’s Queensland’s warm …
Prawns | Sustainability | Programs – SBS:www.sbs.com.au/programs/article/2014/10/06/thai-prawns
Nov 3, 2014 – Western king prawns from the Spencer Gulf Prawn Trawl Fishery in South Australia have been found to be sustainable by the Australian ...
Prawn « « GoodFishBadFish:goodfishbadfish.com.au/?fish=prawn
Western King Prawns from the Spencer Gulf Prawn Trawl Fishery in SA have been assessed as Sustainable by the Australian Conservation Foundation’s …
Sustainable seafood | wwf – WWF Australia:www.wwf.org.au › … › Oceans and marine › Marine solutions
By making the choice to only buy and eat sustainable seafood, consumers can … king prawn fishery (the world’s first MSC certified king prawn fishery); Australian …
That is terrible. We do frequent Aldi’s for dry goods — never fish. We buy our shrimp — wild caught in the Gulf or Atlantic by the fisherman who live in the area. That information is good to know. Thank you Marisa.
I have just come home from Aldi – I go to a yoga class near there and I often call in on my way home – and I did notice all of these packets of prawns that were untouched!
Buone Feste Marisa Franca. Da una Marisa all’altra.