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

[Bethany Schroeder]

You bring up a good point, but I do believe people who can be so 
careless about others are operating from an enslaved mentality, too. 
What I was trying to underscore, however, was that we're sometimes quick 
to forget how few choices some people have, or that the choices people 
make are fraught with exigencies many of us can barely imagine. I don't 
mean to excuse people from the responsibility of their choices, but 
rather only to acknowledge that most choices are not between one simple 
act and another.

A separate consideration is that people actually mistakenly believe that 
they're eating--as in nourishing themselves--when they consume a Big 
Mac, or something of that ilk.

Bethany



kalewillprevail at riseup.net wrote:
> Not all sides, really. Let's not forget the folks who own and manage the
> show. I suppose it could be argued that they are the slaves of the
> capitalist imperative combined with whatever hardened their souls to
> nature and the suffering of others but that's a bit abstract. There are
> masters in this equation. Someone does the beating, picks up his paycheck,
> goes home and watches TV at night. Someone does the books. Someone
> presides over board meetings. Etc...
> 
>> 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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