The Unification Church's foray into the seafood industry began at the direction of Reverend Moon who delivered a speech in 1980 entitled "The Way of Tuna" in which he claimed that "After we build the boats, we catch the fish and process them for the market, and then have a distribution network.
[1][3][4] In 1980 True World Foods was founded as The Rainbow Fish House on Elston Avenue in Chicago by five Japanese and American members of the Unification Church.
[1] By 2006 True World Foods controlled a major portion of the sushi trade in the US and employed hundreds of people with annual revenues of $250 million.
[6] An incident at the True World processing plant in Kodiak, Alaska led to the company pleading guilty in federal court and fined $150,000.
[2] True World operated a processing plant in suburban Detroit which was closed after repeated conflict with the Food and Drug Administration.