Sun Myung Moon

=== Seafood and shipbuilding===
The Unification Church owns [[True World Foods]], which controls a major portion of the [[sushi]] trade in the US.<ref name="Tribune 2006" >[http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/specials/chi-0604sushi-1-story,0,3736876.story Sushi and Rev. Moon: How Americans' growing appetite for sushi is helping to support his controversial church] [[Chicago Tribune]], April 11, 2006</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/11/05/magazine/sushi-us.html | title=The Untold Story of Sushi in America | newspaper=[[The New York Times]] | date=5 November 2021 | last1=Fromson | first1=Daniel }}</ref> True World Foods' parent company is the corporate conglomerate [[True World Group]], which operates restaurants and markets.<ref name= "Willamette Week" >{{cite web |last1=Moore |first1=Elizabeth Armstrong |title=Holy Mackerel! |url=https://www.wweek.com/portland/article-5734-holy-mackerel.html |website=wweek.com |date=14 June 2006 |publisher=Willamette Week |access-date=11 December 2022}}</ref>

The Unification Church's foray into the seafood industry began at the direction of Moon, who ordered an expansion into "the oceanic providence." In 1976 and 1977, the Unification Church invested nearly a million dollars into the American seafood industry.<ref name="Tribune 2006" /> Moon 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. This is not just on the drawing board; I have already done it" and declared himself the "king of the ocean." He also suggested that they could get around the recently imposed 200-nautical-mile [[exclusive economic zone]] by marrying American and Japanese members, allowing the Japanese ones to become American citizens, because once married, "we are not foreigners; therefore Japanese brothers, particularly those matched to Americans, are becoming ... leaders for fishing and distribution." He also declared that "[[Gloucester, Massachusetts|Gloucester]] is almost a Moonie town now!"<ref name="Tribune 2006" />

Later in 1980, Moon gave a sermon in which he said, "This ocean business is really reserved for Unification Church. How much income would this business generate? Roughly speaking, enough money to buy the entire world. That's true! It has unlimited potential."<ref name= "Willamette Week" /> In 1986, lhe advised his followers to open a thousand restaurants in America.<ref name="Tribune 2006" />

The Unification Church owns Master Marine (a shipbuilding and fishing company in [[Alabama]])<ref name="romenews">{{cite news | title =Moon's church settles into quiet fishing town | work =Rome News-Tribune | url =https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=1vYGAAAAIBAJ&pg=2581,5940687&dq=master-marine&hl=en | date =November 27, 1985 }}{{Dead link|date=June 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> and International Seafood of [[Kodiak, Alaska]].<ref>[http://www.kodiakdailymirror.com/?pid=19&id=9099 Philippines political leader visits Kodiak], ''Kodiak Mirror'', September 14, 2010</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.anchoragepress.com/archives/document126b.html |title=I'm a Moonie and I Love it! |first=Hal Jr. |last=Horton |date=13 July 2000 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030515223524/http://www.anchoragepress.com/archives/document126b.html |archive-date=15 May 2003}}</ref> In 2011, Master Marine opened a factory in [[Las Vegas Valley|Las Vegas]], [[Nevada]], to manufacture a 27-foot pleasure boat designed by Moon.<ref>[http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2011/aug/30/unification-church-makes-splash-las-vegas/ Unification Church "means business" with Las Vegas facility], ''[[Las Vegas Sun]]'', 9-2-2011</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200701034128/https://www.boatingworld.com/news/pages/InnovativeSportFishingBoattoBeUnveiledinLasVegas1ec36cea.aspx Innovative Sport Fishing Boat to Be Unveiled in Las Vegas], ''Boating World'', 8-18-2011</ref>