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There's a crappy editorial at the LA Times this morning, in which writer Charlotte Allen clucks her tongue at the growing argument against cheap goods, in this case, argued by Ellen Ruppel Shell in her book Cheap. It's garbage, because Allen fails to take down Cheap's base argument, that cheap means someone upstream had to pay the real cost for cheapness. Read more...
Now it's getting serious. From Yahoo Finance, CtW Investment Group Calls for Whole Foods Board to Remove Chair and CEO John Mackey
From the article (with additional links provided by Fair Food Fight): Read more...
This just continues to goad me.
It's a hoot when Goliaths start warring, ain't it? Makes the job of Fair Food Fighters soooo much easier when, say, Starbucks decides to rework bakery recipes to exclude high fructose corn syrup (LA Times). Read more...
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, and, this week, the Bandana Project begins a major push in the U.S.. From CNBC:
Residents of 25 states and three other countries will take a stand against the sexual exploitation of farmworker women and other low-wage female immigrant workers in April as part of the "Bandana Project," a partnership between the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and community groups, universities and other advocacy organizations to raise awareness and educate these women about their rights. Read more...
It occurs to me that young people today may not know who Cesar Chavez was, what an important role he played right along with Martin Luther King in embracing a nonviolent approach to protest.
In 1965, with grape growers slashing payments to farmworkers in the middle of the grape harvest, Cesar Chavez and his National Farmworkers Association called a strike.
In this NYT article, Sugar is Back on Food Labels, this TIme as a Selling Point, reporter Kim Severson says we're seeing an open rebellion against King Corn, and a roots movement to bring back cane sugar. Factory Foodies ConAgra, Kraft, Log Cabin syrup, and even Coca-Cola are all switching some of their product lines to cane, according to Severson.
