I’m contacting Morgan Foods Inc. in light of our latest investigation which concerns the use of forced labor in China’s food processing industry, and a link we’ve discovered between a company engaged in such practices and your supply chain. Morgan Food Inc.’s supplier Rizhao Jiayuan Foodstuff Co. Ltd. is a Meijia Group company. The Meijia Group has received persons from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People’s Republic of China under the state-imposed labor transfer program. The United Nations, human rights organizations and academic experts agree that since 2018, the Chinese gove…

My name is Susan Ryan and I’m a research and investigations editor at The Outlaw Ocean Project, a journalism non-profit that publishes stories about human rights and environmental issues connected with the sea. Our director, Ian Urbina, wrote to Morgan Foods in July 2023 regarding our investigation into the use of forced labor in China’s seafood processing industry.

We are contacting you now in light of our research on the practice of ‘flagging in’, whereby fishing vessels owned by companies in one country are flagged to another country in order to access that second country’s waters. We are…