[FLPERMACULTURE] Wave of outrage over latest revelations of slavery reaches British shores!

[Bethany Schroeder]

Since that's the case, it could be argued that people on all sides of 
the issue are in fact enslaved: those who grow the food, those who 
prepare it, and those who eat it. From the perspective of class, I can't 
see that anyone has much of a choice.

Bethany



Margaret McCasland wrote:
> Immokalee is in Florida: we're talking about produce grown in the US
> of A for Big Macs etc sold in the US of A.
> 
> On 12/20/07, Molly Brewton <mb105 at cornell.edu> wrote:
>> Hi Dirk,
>>
>> Thanks for the posting.  Where (in what country) is Immokalee?  This talks
>> about British reaction, but it doesn't say where this took place.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Molly
>>
>> At 11:25 PM 12/19/2007, you wrote:
>>> One more giant reason why industrial corporate agriculture is completely
>>> wack...
>>>
>>> forwarded from the Coalition of Immokalee Workers:
>>>
>>> One of the UK's biggest national broadsheets published today a
>>> front page "special investigation" entitled: "Slave Labor that
>>> Shames America: Migrant workers chained, beaten and forced into debt,
>>> exposing the human cost of producing cheap food."
>>>
>>> Check out the powerful new article at the CIW's website, at:
>>>
>>> http://www.ciw-online.org
>>>
>>> The article takes an in-depth look at the charges filed by
>>> federal prosecutors in the latest slavery investigation to emerge from
>>> the tomato fields in Immokalee. It is accompanied by an
>>> excellent interview with the CIW's Francisca Cortez.
>>>
>>> PLUS... People and Planet, England's largest student and
>>> youth organization in the fight against sweatshops and exploitation,
>>> have also joined the fray with an e-action alert on their impressive
>>> website. Here's a link to the P&P e-action, where you can go and
>>> take part in the first -- and certainly not the last -- action on
>>> the Campaign for Fair Food on the other side of the Atlantic:
>>>
>>> http://peopleandplanet.org/redressfashion/globallinks/CIW
>>>
>>> Seems that a European front is opening in the battle for Fair Food!
>>>
>>> Thanks - Coalition of Immokalee Workers
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