The Outlaw Ocean Project
I’m contacting you in light of our latest investigation which concerns the use of forced labor in China’s seafood processing industry, and a link we’ve discovered between companies engaged in such practices and procurement contracts awarded by the U.S. Department of Defense.
Since 2018, the Department of Defense has awarded 6,936 contracts to Sysco through the funding agency Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support. The total value of these contracts is over $140 million. The contracts awarded include seafood products such as pollock and cod. According to Sysco’s website, it sells multiple High…