Uncertified and unregulated canned tuna might be cheap, but it comes at the cost of human rights abuses.
Walmart knows this story all too well for being in the frontlines of a investigation only a year ago. Despite uproar over their indirect support of slavery in international fisheries, they still haven’t cleaned up their act.
Tell Walmart to disclose its allegedly sustainable and ethical tuna sources.
Walmart’s tuna for their Great Value canned tuna used to come from Thai Union, a company that’s been at the forefront of human trafficking and labour abuses. Walmart has claimed to have severed tied with Thai Union but won’t provide any assurances about where their new tuna’s coming from.
Walmart has a responsibility to provide ethically-sourced products where workers are treated with dignity and respect. This massive corporation needs to use its buying power to demand fair practices -- to demand ethical and sustainable tuna and to prove to its buyers that it has done so.
This isn’t new for Walmart -- they’ve been involved in multiple scandals related to their seafood products and haven’t denied their involvement in unethical fisheries. They know better -- but they haven’t done much to prove they have stopped their wrongdoings. We need to tell Walmart that enough is enough.
Tell Walmart to prove where its tuna comes from.
More information
The Atlantic. 16 December 2015.
Greenpeace . 29 November 2016.
The Guardian. 6 October 2016.