The Organic Consumers Association (OCA)– representing over 850,000 consumers across the U.S. — has joined a growing alliance in support of the Florida-based Coalition for Immokalee Workers' campaign to "End Slavery and Sweatshops in the Fields." While the organic and sustainable agricultural movement has traditionally focused primarily on health and environmental issues, the time is long overdue to integrate Fair Trade and worker justice issues into our alternative food and farming system. Consumers need to understand that much of the so-called "natural" food and produce, such as tomatoes, sold in natural food stores like Whole Foods are actually coming from chemical-intensive farms where low wages and labor exploitation are the norm. Please join this growing campaign. Click here to sign the petition.
http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_11123.cfm
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