
There are few food labels in the world with a history as deep — or a human
rights program as remarkable — as the new Fair Food Program label, ready for its
big reveal this coming Food Day, Friday, October 24th.
Indeed, it is an image two decades in the making. It has been twenty years
since farmworkers began organizing in the streets of Immokalee for “dignity,
dialogue, and a fair wage”; thirteen years since consumers across the country
took a stand, side by side with farmworkers, to hold the world’s largest buyers
of Florida tomatoes accountable for the farm labor exploitation in their supply
chains; and four years since the CIW signed an historic agreement with Florida
tomato growers to create the Fair Food Program. And in those four short years,
the Fair Food Program has transformed the Florida tomato industry from “ground
zero for modern-day slavery” into what has been called, on the front page of the
New York Times, “the best working environment in American agriculture.”
Today, the Fair Food Program is not only fully implemented in the Florida
tomato industry, but poised for expansion to new crops and new states. And this
Friday, the moment will finally come to launch the Fair Food label, which
represents a new day for farmworkers that is no longer aspirational, but now
fully realized, in Florida’s tomato fields.
We need YOUR help in spreading the word about the new label! This Friday,
the CIW will be teaming up with the award-winning “Food Chains” crew and an
assortment of other food justice organizations to share the new Fair Food label
on social media as a part of Food Day...
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