Connections between what we eat and the exploitation of low-wage laborers, from Immokalee farmworkers to fast-food employees, are highlighted in “Food, Inc. 2,” the new sequel to a highly acclaimed documentary about multinational corporations’ grip on the food industry and how it affects us.
Lupe Gonzalo understands all too well the hardscrabble life of a farmworker. Having worked for 12 years in Florida’s tomato industry — in addition to traveling to other states to pick sweet potatoes, apples and blueberries — Gonzalo often had to wake up at 4 or 5 o’clock in the morning to travel to a local farm, where she was handed a bucket and told to fill that bucket as many times as humanly possible during the day.
Lupe Gonzalo understands all too well the hardscrabble life of a farmworker.
On Saturday, Aug. 3, Presbyterians from Louisville and across the nation will join with Lucas Benitez, farmworker and co-founder of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), an award-winning organization of Florida farmworkers, in a peaceful, public action calling on Wendy’s to join the Fair Food Program.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) leaders here are praising an historic agreement signed Tuesday (Nov. 17) between the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) and the growers of more than 90 percent of Florida’s winter tomato crop that will boost Florida farmworkers’ wages and working conditions.
Who would imagine that shoppers strolling past Nassau Presbyterian Church here on a summer Friday would find themselves face-to-face with modern-day slavery?
Yet on display July 30 in the church parking lot was a cargo box truck, a replica of one in which farmworkers were held against their will in 2008. The incident resulted in a slavery case: U.S. v. Navarrete.