Fair Food Program “good for business…” Media round-up highlights Fair Food Nation’s remarkable progress in first months of 2014… In January, Walmart signed a Fair Food agreement, adding the world’s largest retailer to the growing list of food giants supporting the Fair Food Program. In February, the documentary “Food Chains” premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival, introducing Europe to the Coalition of Immokalee Workers and to the two-decade long fight for Fair Food.  In March, the national Now is the Time Tour rocked ten cities in ten days, with massive actions at the top and bottom of the tour, in Dublin, Ohio, and Lakeland, Florida. And in April, Del Monte Fresh Produce joined 90% of the Florida tomato industry in the Fair Food Program, thereby expanding the protections of the country’s most effective human rights program for farmworkers to thousands of new farm labor jobs across the state. With the star of the Fair Food Program steadily on the rise, it is no surprise that, from time to time, we have to play catch-up just to keep up with the media coverage!  So, without further ado, we present the very latest Fair Food Program media round-up: First up, after debuting in the national industry publication The Packer, the news that Del Monte Fresh Produce joined the FFP continued to ripple through the produce industry.  Here is a brief excerpt from the online forum Fresh Fruit Portal, which covered the momentous news in a remarkably detailed article titled “Del Monte deal shows fair food is good business, says Reyes”: A subsidiary of Del Monte Fresh Produce (NYSE: FDP) recently signed up to the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) fair food program, but what does that actually mean?  CIW staff member Gerardo Reyes explains a system that is protecting Florida tomato workers’ rights like never before, and which may expand into new crops and states. [...] Don't miss the full media round-up on the Fair Food Program at the CIW website!