Whole Foods denies that it sells shrimp peeled by slave labor in Thailand.
“After thorough investigation, we’re confident Thai Union shrimp at our stores did not come from [an] illicit processing facility,” the retailer tweeted Tuesday morning. Whole Foods has a built its business on attracting customers who are willing to pay for high-quality food, such as organic meat and dairy products. But the store was also one of the retailers named in an extensive investigation by the Associated Press, which found workers in Thailand who were kept as slaves to clean shrimp that’s sold at many major U.S. retailers. Read the article here 08:49
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