Slaves help supply food stores in West

Eight slaves from Myanmar sat on the floor and stared through the rusty bars of their locked cage, hidden on a tiny tropical island thousands of miles from home.

Just a few meters away, other workers loaded cargo ships with seafood they had caught, which taints the supply networks of major supermarkets, restaurants and even pet stores in the United States.

The eight imprisoned men were considered flight risks by their keepers. They lived on a few bites of rice and curry a day in a space barely big enough to lie down - stuck until the next trawler forces them back to sea.