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Why the Slow Food Movement Needs to Help Stop America's Slave Labor
Business  (tags: human rights, farm workers, slavery, fast food, Immokalee, Florida, agriculture, business, crime, government, abuse, humans, society, economy, corporate, consumers )

Tom
- 258 days ago - alternet.org
If you eat tomatoes, in America, between the months of December and May, chances are some were picked by slaves. Immokalee, Florida, is where 90 percent of the nation's winter tomatoes are grown. We need to be in solidarity with those who grow our food.
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Kit B. (177)
Monday March 16, 2009, 8:55 pm
OK, Where do I sign? There must be something that can be done, I get frustrated reading something like this and not being able to do something. It's easy to understand the whys, not easy to understand how one human being for, the sake of money, can enslave another.
 

Locan Sleeping-Squirrel (89)
Monday March 16, 2009, 11:47 pm
Better yet they could pay a living wage and immigration laws could be enforced.

Pass the employee free choice act!
 

Joycey B. (694)
Tuesday March 17, 2009, 3:15 am
Noted with thanks Tom.
 
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