Category: Expanding the Fair Food Program: November 2014 – December 2015

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THE COALITION OF IMMOKALEE WORKERS AND THE FRESH MARKET ANNOUNCE PARTNERSHIP FOR FAIR FOOD

THE COALITION OF IMMOKALEE WORKERS AND THE FRESH MARKET ANNOUNCE PARTNERSHIP FOR FAIR FOOD

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[hupso title="BREAKING NEWS: @TheFreshMarket joins @FairFoodProgram, recognizes FL growers with commitment to increase purchases!" url="https://ciw-online.org/blog/2015/01/fresh-market-press-release/"] Contact:Coalition of Immokalee Workersworkers@ciw-online.org239-986-2364 Carly DennisBRAVE Public Relationscdennis@bravepublicrelations.com404-233-3993 THE COALITION OF IMMOKALEE WORKERS AND THE FRESH MARKET ANNOUNCE PARTNERSHIP FOR FAIR FOOD Specialty Grocer to Join CIW’s Fair Food Program, Increase Purchases from Participating Florida Growers in Support of Groundbreaking Human Rights Initiative IMMOKALEE, FL >> Read More

BREAKING NEWS: Fresh Market signs Fair Food agreement with CIW!

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[hupso title="BREAKING NEWS: @TheFreshMarket joins @FairFoodProgram, recognizes FL growers with commitment to increase purchases!" url="https://ciw-online.org/blog/2015/01/fresh-market-signs/"] Fresh Market: “We continuously look for ways to source the best products, and being a part of the FFP helps us to know we are sourcing from growers whose practices are fair and socially responsible..." Agreement breaks important ground with two critical new provisions -- increased >> Read More

Part Three: A 21st century Christmas Carol for the food industry?…

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[hupso title="PART 3: A 21st century #Christmas Carol for the food industry?" url="https://ciw-online.org/blog/2015/01/21st-cent-christmas-carol-3/"]   Business as usual is no longer an option for the US food industry in the face of outrageous human rights violations in Mexico’s produce industry; Food industry leaders must leverage their unequaled purchasing power -- reward ethical producers, reject those unwilling to implement real reforms -- to raise the >> Read More

Part Two: A 21st century Christmas Carol for the food industry?…

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[hupso title="Part 2: 21st century #Christmas Carol for the food industry?" url="https://ciw-online.org/blog/2014/12/21st-cent-christmas-carol-2/"] [caption id="attachment_19769" align="aligncenter" width="550"] Nely Rodriguez, a member of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, protests outside a Kroger shareholder meeting in Ohio earlier this year calling on the supermarket giant to join the CIW's Fair Food Program. Despite the unconscionable labor conditions in Mexico's fields exposed in this month's >> Read More

Newsweek: “The Fair Food Program Should Be Extended to Mexico”…

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[hupso title=".@Newsweek: The @FairFoodProgram should be extended to Mexico..." url="https://ciw-online.org/blog/2014/12/newsweek-ffp/"] This month's LA Times investigative series, "Product of Mexico: Hardship on Mexico's farms, a bounty for U.S. tables,"  sent shockwaves through the food industry with its explosive, multi-media documentation of appalling abuses on Mexican produce farms ranging from widespread child labor to modern-day slavery.  Given the key role Mexican produce exports have come to play >> Read More

A 21st century Christmas Carol for the food industry?… Part One

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The LA Times grabs the food industry by the hand and drags it on a nightmare tour through the inhumanity of Mexico's vegetable fields...  How will this modern-day Christmas Carol end?  Will the industry respond with a collective "Bah Humbug!"? Or might a "God bless us, every one!" be in the cards? First, a little bit of holiday season history. "An Appeal to the People of >> Read More

“I work because… we need money to eat things”…

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[hupso title="I work because we need money to eat things... Part 3 of @LATimes' breaking investigative report of #Mexican tomato industry" url="https://ciw-online.org/blog/2014/12/la-times-3/"]   LA Times series continues with a focus on child labor, company stores in Mexican produce industry... The portrait of an industry out of control continued to be filled out this past weekend with the final two installments >> Read More

“They treated us like slaves”…

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[hupso title="They treated us like slaves... 2nd installment of @latimes investigative report on devastating conditions in #Mexican tomato industry " url="https://ciw-online.org/blog/2014/12/latimes-2/"] Devastating tale of criminal brutality and cruel indifference at one labor camp in Mexico's tomato industry is a case study in the abject failure of the traditional model of Corporate Social Responsibility First things first.  If you haven't done so already, put aside >> Read More

BREAKING NEWS: Explosive LA Times investigative report blows lid off “story of exploitation and extreme hardship” in Mexican tomato fields…

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[hupso title="BREAKING: @LATimes exposes story of exploitation and extreme hardship in Mexican tomato fields" url="https://ciw-online.org/blog/2014/12/la-times-1/"] "The real truth is that we're work animals for the fields" Fear, corruption, corporate indifference allow greed and abuse to run rampant; Contrast to Fair Food Program, Florida tomato industry, could not be more stark; Ball now in US retailers' court, denial no longer an >> Read More

The sequel to “Food Chains” — Fair Food Standards Council Executive Director talks about “the story unfolding in the fields today”…

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[hupso title="The sequel to @FoodChainsFilm: @FairFoodSC Exec Dir talks about story unfolding in the fields today" url="https://ciw-online.org/blog/2014/12/ffsc/"] Judge Laura Safer Espinoza: "It's a wonderful story.  It's the story of a new day, and it's a new day born of partnership." Judge Laura Safer Espinoza is not a person you will hear talking with the press or making many public speeches.  In fact, >> Read More