Fair Food troubadour extraordinaire, Liz Fitzgerald, has penned a pithy response to Chipotle's much-ballyhooed commercial short, Back to the Start (ballyhooed despite the fact that Chipotle's idyllic vision of agriculture-as-it-should-be is totally devoid of actual farmworkers, a fact that escaped the attention of all but the most eagle-eyed critics). Liz shot her own short video, above, outside a San >> Read More

Respected food industry analyst lauds Fair Food Program This month's edition of Food, Nutrition & Science — a monthly newsletter for food industry insiders with a readership upwards of 26,000 — prominently features a concise but far-reaching article on the Fair Food Program and the role of the supermarket industry in perpetuating — and potentially alleviating — farmworker poverty and >> Read More

"Cultivating Fear": Human Rights Watch releases withering report on the "high risk of sexual violence, harassment faced by farmworkers in the U.S." Report can be found online; watch the video below... Last month, Human Rights Watch published a landmark report on sexual harassment and violence in the fields. It is a valuable document that recounts, in stark language, the world >> Read More

Top Ten Falsehoods, Fibs, and Fabrications in Chipotle's Answer to a Customer's Email about the Campaign for Fair Food... Follow the entire series here #10 #9 #8 #7 #6 #5 #4 #3 #2 #1 June 4, 2012 #1 is done: Chipotle countdown a wrap! Chipotle changes its tune... but the public just keeps on singing the same song! When we >> Read More

Gerardo Reyes of the CIW comments on the new WK Kellogg Foundation poll Plus... Check out the CIW's comments at last week's Natural Resources Defense Council Food Justice Award Ceremony! This week, hundreds of representatives of community organizations, national coalitions, advocacy groups, authors, and activists from across the national food movement gathered in Asheville, North Carolina for the annual W.K. >> Read More