Mark Bittman's Food
blog on the NYTimes.
The True Cost of Tomatoes (Bittman)
Here's the passage that caught my eye:
Most of us eat or buy industrially produced tomatoes, and it doesn’t seem too much to ask that the people who pick them for us be treated a little more fairly. Speak to your supermarket manager or write to the head of the chain you patronize (the easiest way to do this is to visit
this page on the CIW site). Supermarkets, I expect, are as susceptible to public pressure as fast-food chains.
There are few places in the country where migrant and immigrant farmworkers are treated well; in Immokalee, at least, they’re being treated better. Bit by bit.
This is a case study...the course could be organized around case studies with digital literacy projects in response to the studies....
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