the human cost of tomatoes
[W]hen asked if it is reasonable to assume that an American who has eaten a fresh tomato from a grocery store or food-service company during the winter has eaten fruit picked by the hand of a slave, [ chief assistant U.S. attorney] Molloy said, “It is not an assumption. It is a fact.”
advice: buy season, local, and small-scale fruit. whole foods is the only grocery chain that has signed on to the coalition of immokalee workers (ciw) campaign for fair food.
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