A chapter from Volume 2 of "Effective Strategies for Protecting Human Rights," edited by David Barnhizer. Ashgate Press. 2002. In this Chapter, the author explores the collision of competing systems and values in the specific context of the human rights consequences of large-scale industrial shrimp aquaculture -- a form of lucrative international commodity trade that has exploded in scale over the past twenty years and is consuming the coastline of many developing countries.