…[The] Coalition of Immokalee Workers… [is] asking for just a penny more for every pound of tomatoes they pick for the tomato companies and that their employers be required to comply with a basic code of conduct, including zero tolerance for forced labor… Yet many firms continue to ignore the call to improve farm labor conditions and end slavery in the fields. Among them is Publix… The argument that Publix offers is that the tomatoes it buys — including those it buys from Pacific and Six L’s, the two growers associated with the latest slavery prosecution — are bought at a fair market price. According to Publix spokesman Dwaine Stevens they're unwilling to interfere in what they regard as a labor dispute. "That's not our role: to come between our suppliers and their workers." This is disingenuous… [T]here's nothing fair about profiting from the federal crime of slavery… [And] when change has been demanded in the past, Publix has felt very able to make its own decisions… [also refers to Taco Bell (part of YUM!), Whole Foods]