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Your Tomatoes Were Picked by Slaves

Your Tomatoes Were Picked by Slaves


  • Dan Mitchell has written for The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, The MInneapolis Star-Tribune and Wired.

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Submitted by AMarieB on Wed, 03/04/2009 - 3:23pm.

Consumer Choices

What can/should we, the consumers, do to combat this and make a difference?

Submitted by fuzzybunny on Fri, 03/06/2009 - 8:08am.

Buy local, buy human

If you can, sign up for a Community Supported Agriculture program in your area, or buy your vegetables at the local farmers' market. There are CSAs just about everywhere these days (try www.localharvest.org to find one) and in the long run it works out cheaper than the supermarket. This may sound simplistic or idealistic, but it really *is* that simple. If you know the people who grow your food and have the chance to visit their farms, you can be 100% certain you are not supporting slavery or other exploitation.

Submitted by Michal Clark on Wed, 06/03/2009 - 5:47am.

RE:

Of course, the growers pass blame for workers' conditions along to the contractors they hire to recruit and "manage" pickers. 

Submitted by AMarieB on Mon, 03/09/2009 - 8:47pm.

I think I'm going to start

I think I'm going to start growing my own tomatoes, too, which is lucky for me, but I'm really wondering if this will change the industry at all, and I don't think it will.

Submitted by dan.mitchell on Wed, 03/04/2009 - 11:17pm.

choices...

Estabrook in his Gourmet article says: "In the warm months, the best solution is to follow that old mantra: buy seasonal, local, and small-scale. But what about in winter? So far, Whole Foods is the only grocery chain that has signed on to the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) Campaign for Fair Food."

More at the bottom of the article, here:

http://www.gourmet.com/magazine/2000s/2009/03/politics-of-the-plate-the-...

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