Food Justice documentary “Food Chains” directed by Sanjay Rawal and narrated by Forest Whitaker arrives in theatres today Nov 21 2014. The New York Times review says:

“Food Chains” .. presents the plight of our farm laborers as modern-day slavery .. Required to pick a minimum of 480 pounds of fruit per hour (hands moving so quickly that you would swear the film has been sped up), the workers average around $42 for a nine-hour shift.

“We live like animals in cramped housing,” one man says, as Mr. Rawal shows us jam-packed trailers and ragtag encampments. The ability to improve these conditions lies not with the farmers, we are told, but with the fast-food industry, restaurants and supermarkets whose contracts with buyers set the economics of the supply chain. But when a coalition of tomato pickers in Immokalee, Fla., began agitating for companies to pay a penny more per pound for their tomatoes, the state’s largest supermarket chain, Publix, refused to blink.

The Fair Food Program behind the film, asks that Big Box retailers pay 1¢ more per pound for tomatoes and not buy from farms with human rights violations. An example of human rights abuse? Big Ag raining toxic pesticides down on workers while they work in open fields, completely exposed.

Or some of the horrors happening to half a million child ag laborers .. under the age of 18 whom are United States citizens being made to work full length days and also attend school. According to testimonials, some of these kids are treated worse than their undocumented parents (if that’s possible).

What’s all this ag labor abuse in aid of? So Big Box retailers can serve up tasteless, over-refrigerated and over-transported monoculture tomatoes and America can eat strawberries for $1 a pint.