# Are there good reasons to be anti-free trade? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [January 15, 2016, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-good-reasons-to-be-anti-free-trade/743281 "2016-01-15T21:59:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 120
**Author:** ![BrightNShiny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@BrightNShiny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrightNShiny)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2016, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-good-reasons-to-be-anti-free-trade/743281/120 "2016-01-18T19:13:27Z")
> [@bldysabba](#): > > I’m curious. Where in the world is the large scale slave led production happening? There are numerous reports coming out of Thailand and Burma that there’s slavery going on (particularly in the fishing industry). Here’s one example: > **[22 years a slave in Asia's forced fishing industry](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/burmese-slave-freed-22-years-southeast-asia-forced-fishing-slavery/)** > > Myint Naing was 18 when a man came to his village in Burma promising work -- work he's lucky to have survived I’ve got more if you want it. Just to head this off, though, since everyone keeps lying in this thread: I haven’t made any claims about how widespread this is. What I’ve said is that I’m concerned about this, and if someone is advocating free trade, they need to tell me how to address this concern. And I’ve said the data I’m seeing (because I’m seeing a lot of reports out of Burma and Thailand) contradict the one economic model proposed in this thread for reducing this problem. And I’ve said that if someone wants to convince me that the proposed economic model will actually reduce slavery, I’m willing to listen, but they have to do some data crunching. But, given how this thread has been going, there will probably be a few people along shortly to lie about my position. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-good-reasons-to-be-anti-free-trade/743281)._