Last month Nestlé of Switzerland, the world’s biggest food company, acknowledged that its seafood sourcing in Thailand was from companies that use practices commonly termed modern-day slavery. Also in November, the Guardian newspaper exposed the use of migrant trafficking and forced labour in the Irish fishing industry — this is not an aberration in Ireland as Finfacts has in the past exposed the Irish language school racket where agents in places like India profit from the promise of a better life in Europe.