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Threat of a new 'Harvest of Shame' [USA]
On Nov. 15, 2010...farmworkers with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers and growers with the Florida Tomato Exchange...signed a pact to work together to build a more modern, more humane agricultural system. Out of that agreement has grown the Fair Food Program, a unique collaboration among consumers, workers, growers and retail food companies that is premised on mutual respect and the verifiable protection of the rights and interests of tomato workers and growers...Inexplicably, the [US] Commerce Department is contemplating actions that would allow artificially cheap Mexican tomatoes — ...kept cheap in part due to...exploitation of Mexican farmworkers — to continue to undercut Florida production and undermine...progress...in our country's efforts to advance farmworkers' human rights...Permitting the dumping of Mexican tomatoes that may have been picked by workers subjected to gross human rights abuses — up to and including modern-day slavery — is to allow the Mexican tomato industry to set the low bar with regard to human rights...