Migrants processing Thai chicken exports abused, exploited-researchers
BY KATIE NGUYEN

LONDON, Nov 25 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Migrants processing Thai chicken for its biggest export market, Europe, face widespread abuse by their employers, partly because foreign auditors have focused on food safety rather than workers' conditions, researchers said on Wednesday.

Chicken is set to become the world's most consumed meat, within the next five years, overtaking pork.

Its increasing popularity is a boon to major poultry suppliers like Thailand, which shipped about 270,000 tonnes of processed chicken to the European Union in 2014, according to Swedwatch, which monitors the impact of Swedish companies on the environment and human rights.

In a joint study with Finnwatch, the group found that factory workers from Thailand's poorer neighbours Cambodia and Myanmar are being exploited by brokers and employers who withhold their passports and charge excessive recruitment fees.

Full story: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/25/thailand-migrants-abuse-idUSL8N13K40D20151125

-- Reuters 2015-11-26

Many of the Falang Boozer/Loser crowd probably do not know that Thailand is one of the top exporters of processed chicken products and chickens to the EU.

What do we all expect?! Meat is a s cheap as never before. We all would do the world a big favor if we reduce our meat consume...

No big surprise here then. I doubt there is a Thai industry of any sort that does not exploit its workers; be they Thai or others.

Many of the Falang Boozer/Loser crowd probably do not know that Thailand is one of the top exporters of processed chicken products and chickens to the EU.

Appreciate you pointing this out to me

Many of the Falang Boozer/Loser crowd probably do not know that Thailand is one of the top exporters of processed chicken products and chickens to the EU.

they are also one of the top sea food exporters if not thee top

but me thinks that will all change very soon and not to Thailand's benefit

but not to worry because TAT reported that they will receive a large boost in tourism

as no one will want to go to Europe in the near future and they will all come to Thailand

puff puff pass know what a mean Burt TFC

Edited November 26, 201510 yr by nichol

Someone is looking to get sued,putting out a report like that,even

if its true.

regards worgeordie

Conditions are terrible. But be careful. The chicken industry is owned by??

So the migrants feel that they have been abused and exploited!!?? I think the chickens might have something to say about that.

Edited November 26, 201510 yr by UnkleMoooose

Many of the Falang Boozer/Loser crowd probably do not know that Thailand is one of the top exporters of processed chicken products and chickens to the EU.

they are also one of the top sea food exporters if not thee top

but me thinks that will all change very soon and not to Thailand's benefit

but not to worry because TAT reported that they will receive a large boost in tourism

as no one will want to go to Europe in the near future and they will all come to Thailand

puff puff pass know what a mean Burt TFC

Human will is the kingdom of heaven!

Many of the Falang Boozer/Loser crowd probably do not know that Thailand is one of the top exporters of processed chicken products and chickens to the EU.

Appreciate you pointing this out to me

Why? are you a boozer looser too?

Conditions are terrible. But be careful. The chicken industry is owned by??

!!???

so?.... Let them eat Shrimp!

After they run out of chickens they will process us old turkeys welcome to Soylent Green.

D'oh. Just look at the price of chicken and figure it out.

Many of the Falang Boozer/Loser crowd probably do not know that Thailand is one of the top exporters of processed chicken products and chickens to the EU.

Yes, I am surprised that any country outside the EU ships chicken into the EU. The EU can not produce enough chickens for itself? I'd think the EU would export chicken.

I see a Tyson truck in the USA loaded with 30 tons of chicken, so how many truck loads of chicken do Thailand export to the EU? A couple dozen truck loads, not even a ship load.

Many of the Falang Boozer/Loser crowd probably do not know that Thailand is one of the top exporters of processed chicken products and chickens to the EU.

Yes, I am surprised that any country outside the EU ships chicken into the EU. The EU can not produce enough chickens for itself? I'd think the EU would export chicken.

I see a Tyson truck in the USA loaded with 30 tons of chicken, so how many truck loads of chicken do Thailand export to the EU? A couple dozen truck loads, not even a ship load.

"A couple dozen truck loads, not even a ship load. "

Big trucks, bigger ships?

"Chicken meat exports for 2015 are estimated to grow by 6 percent to 580,000 metric tons (MT) when compared to 2014".

http://gain.fas.usda.gov/Recent%20GAIN%20Publications/Poultry%20and%20Products%20Annual_Bangkok_Thailand_8-28-2015.pdf