Food Chains Brilliantly Exposes The Plight Of The Migrant Farm Worker ::posted Sun, 28 Dec 2014 01:19:49 +0000:: crooksandliars/2014/12/food-chains-exposes-harsh-reality-migrant Set in Immokalee, Florida, Eva Longoria, with the help of the voice of Forest Whitaker, put together a moving tale of the slave labor exploited in the picking of our fruits and vegetables. Its a story of how the giant grocery stores literally mandate these deplorable labor conditions and become the biggest profiteers of slave labor. The reason for the fight? A mere 1¢ per pound price increase on tomatoes would double the meager earnings of these workers. Yet, some stores wont budge and come to the table with humanitarian groups advocating for the migrant farm worker. The movement, known as The Coalition of Immokalee Workers’ (CIW) Fair Food Program is a unique partnership among farmers, farmworkers, and retail food companies that ensures humane wages and working conditions for the workers who pick fruits and vegetables on participating farms. It harnesses the power of consumer demand to give farmworkers a voice in the decisions that affect their lives, and to eliminate the longstanding abuses that have plagued agriculture for generations. read more [Forwarded by the MyLeftBlogosphere news engine. Link to original post below:]
Posted on: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 07:08:24 +0000
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