“When that door was shut, and he saw that, what was all the thoughts that went trough his mind?  It’s just devastating.”-Sarah Melena, daughter of man cooked alive, KCAL/KCBS interview

Two managers of Bumble Bee Tuna have been criminally charged with killing a man inside a tuna cooker, cooking him alive with 12-hundred pounds of fish!

It happened in Santa Fe Springs, California, in 2012.   The victim was inside a giant tuna oven cleaning it when it was loaded with fish and turned on.  The victim was cooked slowly to death over a two hours period!  The charges come after a two and half years investigation by the Los Angeles County district attorney and the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health.

This is not the first time Bumble Bee tuna has gotten in trouble, their San Diego operations were charged with violating state safety laws because, apparently, employees there were almost cooked in the tuna ovens as well!

The Santa Fe Springs managers could get three years in prison and pay up to $250-thousand USD in fines, if convicted. Bumble Bee Tuna could be fined up to $1.5-million.

Just last month The Associated Press published the results of their undercover investigation into old-school slavery in the fishing industry, and made a connection to Bumble Bee Tuna: “Tainted fish can wind up in the supply chains of some of America’s major grocery stores, such as Kroger, Albertsons and Safeway; the nation’s largest retailer, Wal-Mart; and the biggest food distributor, Sysco…..

…. his parent company, known simply as Thai Union, owns Chicken of the Sea and is buying Bumble Bee…..In September, it became the country’s first business to be certified by Dow Jones for sustainable practices, after meeting environmental and social reviews.”-Are Slaves Catching the Fish You Buy?

“It’s torture. When we get beaten, we can’t do anything back. I think our lives are in the hands of the Lord of Death.”-slave on southeast Asian fishing boat

“If Americans and Europeans are eating this fish, they should remember us. There must be a mountain of bones under the sea.  The bones of the people could be an island, it’s that many.”– Hlaing Min, escaped southeast Asian slavery

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