A Whistleblower on the Rot in India's Shrimp Exports https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxvDx3dKuLY The Wire Mar 27, 2024
The general manager of a shrimp packaging plant in Andhra Pradesh quit his job in order to expose the chilling deceptions and violations in the booming export industry: workers housed like animals, mistreated and underpaid, and products – later sold by Walmart, ShopRite and Hannaford – falsely labelled to cover up the use of prohibited antibiotics.
Hidden Harvest https://corpaccountabilitylab.org/hidden-harvest
https://www.theoutlawocean.com/investigations/india-shrimp-a-growing-goliath/the-whistleblower/ Summary of Choice Canning’s Response
Choice Canning's lawyers said that the company categorically denies the allegations made by Mr. Farinella, whom they said should not be trusted due to his criminal record. They added that all company documentation about shipments correctly shows the source of the shrimp. The company never ships antibiotic shrimp to the U.S. and the FDA has never stopped their shipments due to antibiotics because the company maintains the highest of quality standards. The lawyers also said that documents from Mr. Farinella were manipulated. (Upon request, a private firm that specializes in forensic data analysis reviewed a selection of the documents, including those specifically cited by Choice Canning, and they verified that they were not manipulated in any way.) Internal company correspondence about “Oscar" shrimp does not indicate that antibiotic shrimp was shipped abroad since this shrimp is tested a second time and likely was found at that stage to be antibiotic.
An excerpt from ‘Broken Promises: Caste, Crime and Politics in Bihar’, by Mrityunjay Sharma. https://scroll.in/article/1065424/how-did-bihar-once-the-cradle-of-civilisation-devolve-into-a-state-of-crime-poverty-and-misrule
Bihar’s fall from a position of prosperity can be attributed to multiple factors spread over the last two centuries. However, the three most important factors for Bihar’s economic decline in the period of modern history have been listed by Arnab Mukherji and Anjan Mukherji in a 2012 paper titled “Bihar: What Went Wrong? And What Changed?”
The most recent and the larger reason for Bihar’s fall from grace is what this book is about. The period from 1990 to 2005, often dubbed as “Jungle Raj”, was a controversial period in which the government de-emphasised the state’s urgent development issues in order to pursue the ostensibly higher goal of social empowerment. Recruitments to public posts and development expenditures were highly curtailed in the belief that they would primarily benefit the upper castes. During these fifteen years, the state experienced an average annual growth rate of less than 1 per cent, while real per capita income nearly stagnated.
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The Art of Unlearning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFgxyJimCGw | Ecoversities
Mar 25, 2024
The Art of Unlearning” invites co-explorers to discover and deepen ‘Unlearning’ as a powerful pedagogy for growth and transformation of the self and the world through autoethnographic narratives of understanding of how our perceptions and learning about life can be distorted and can be enhanced through the art of seeing in self-awareness. It addresses the need for decolonized systems of somatic awareness and breath work through a facilitated embodied activity and some discussions drawing from our personal life experiences.
Kaushiek Pranoo is the founder of Unlearning Ashram through which he offers facilitated experiential unlearning journeys that empower human transformation inside out. Over the past decade, he has delved into authentic inner work, leadership, well being, community building and alternative learning pedagogies and has been serving in multiple roles as a facilitator, life coach, mentor, writer and business consultant, having had the privilege to work closely with people from diverse backgrounds across all age groups - from indigenous, rural to urban communities. He summarizes his unlearning journey thus far as, "I can see. I can respond. I can bow down." https://www.kaushiekpranoo.com/unlearningashram