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While Walmart boasts ‘sustainability,’ shrimp factory workers protest
Migrant packers at a Thai seafood factory with strong ties to Walmart claim they're being underpaid and kept against their will.
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Labor of love: Domestic fair trade grows
Just like Fair Trade for international farms, the Food Justice Certified label is rewarding farms with fair labor practices inside the U.S.
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Who harvests your winter tomatoes? [VIDEO]
This moving episode of the Perennial Plate takes us to visit Lupe Gonzalo, a Florida tomato worker from Guatemala who talks openly about her hopes and struggles.
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Meating halfway: Americans opt for less
The good news: Americans are consuming less meat. The bad news: The meat industry is still a terrible place to work.
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Principled plate: Diners’ Guide helps make eating out ethical
Photo: Bravo123Restaurants know their customers worry over the source of an heirloom tomato, or the care with which their pork was raised and handled. But when it comes to the treatment of the person who prepared it, few establishments make it a point to be transparent. Now, there’s a guide for that. For the first […]
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Students and campus food workers unite for Food Day
Northwestern University dining hall workers celebrating new contract as part of the students’ living wage campaign.“They took our knives and gave us scissors to open bags of frozen food. I want my knives back so I can cook again.” That’s what a kitchen worker at a prominent university told me recently at one of a […]
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Breaking: Obama pushes huge free trade deals to Wednesday vote
If you thought President Obama’s expressions of sympathy for the Occupy Wall Street movement meant he was suddenly going to stand up for “the 99 percent” and their planet, think again. Obama has just submitted to Congress the Chamber of Commerce-backed Colombia, Panama, and Korea Free Trade Agreements, which are opposed by pretty much every […]
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Field of broken dreams
New labor laws could protect children as young as 12 from working, and even dying, in dangerous jobs on industrial farms. But do they go far enough?
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Why I’m marching against the tar-sands pipeline
A lifelong union member, I'm protesting the tar-sands pipeline because if labor is to have a sustainable future, it must be as a central player in the sustainability movement.
