
Supermarket Slave Trial
Thailand's shrimp industry supplies supermarket chains across the world, and this film traces the labor behind the cheap seafood on store shelves. Investigators and former workers describe recruitment schemes that trap migrant laborers, mostly from Myanmar and Cambodia, on fishing boats and in peeling sheds where wages are withheld and movement is restricted. The film names the retailers implicated in the supply chain, including Walmart, Tesco, Carrefour, Morrisons, and Iceland, and follows the legal and journalistic efforts to hold them accountable for conditions in factories they never directly operate but profit from. Interviews with labor rights advocates and survivors lay out how subcontracting lets major brands distance themselves from abuses documented on the docks and in processing plants. The film treats the shrimp aisle as the visible end of a chain that starts with debt bondage and confinement, asking what responsibility a supermarket bears for a product it did not produce but did choose to sell.