TJ's: We'll endorse the Fair Food Code of Conduct, we just won't enforce it... In our last update, we took a first look at Trader Joe's recent "Note to Our Customers," a two-page treatise on why Trader Joe's is refusing to put its purchasing power behind the growing Campaign for Fair Food. In that post we touched on how Trader >> Read More

Trader Joe's latest communiques on Campaign for Fair Food play fast and loose with the facts, show disturbing willingness to resort to innuendo, echoing darkest days of Burger King campaign... It seems that the longer Trader Joe's resists the Fair Food movement, the more its leadership -- from the CEO to the public relations department -- is determined to tarnish >> Read More

Publix protests, full report from Future of Food Conference, and more... Things are never quiet on the Fair Food front, and sometimes the big stories can swamp the more day-to-day activities that keep the campaign moving forward. While a national day of action focused May Day attention on Trader Joe's with 23 protests across the country, Publix certainly didn't escape >> Read More

Thank you. We’ve been asked to address how farmworkers are affected by the food system – in our case, the $50 billion, labor-intensive fresh produce industry -- in which our members work. We’ll start with the short answer: Farmwork is the worst job this country has to offer. Farmwork is the worst combination of sub-poverty wages, dangerous, back-breaking working conditions, >> Read More

Speakers include Prince Charles, Eric Schlosser, Wendell Berry, US Senator John Tester and more... From the Washington Post website (the source of the beautiful banner above, as well, in case you were pondering): "Overview This conference will bring together many of the world’s leading experts on food, including The Prince of Wales, a lifelong environmentalist and organic farmer, Eric Schlosser, >> Read More