Food is Necessary; So Are Human Rights!
From November through May, 90 percent of the fresh tomatoes produced in the United States come from Florida, where farmworkers have long faced sweatshop conditions, including stagnant, sub-poverty wages and abuses such as sexual harassment. Farmworkers earn just 50 cents per 32-lb. bucket of tomatoes they pick and haul. At that rate, one would have to pick 2.25 TONS of tomatoes to earn minimum wage for a typical ten hour day.
- Tags: fair food, trader joes
- Ministries: Fair Food
- Agency: General Assembly Mission Council