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Equitable Food Initiative
Project Director at the Equitable Food Initiative, a nonprofit which has developed a new label identifying products from farms with humane labor conditions
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Peter O'Driscoll
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FROM Peter O'Driscoll
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The Human Cost of Cheap Produce Walmart, Safeway, Whole Foods and other American grocers import billions of dollars-worth of fruits and vegetables from Mexico. The companies advertise "ethical sourcing guidelines" including humane treatment of Mexican farm workers. But a recent Los Angeles Times investigation reveals unpaid laborers trapped behind fences far from home, living in squalor, short of drinkable water, bathing in irrigation canals. Is that what's keeping food prices down?
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