Here's a letter-writing campaign that Fair Food Fight fully endorses. US Working Group on the Food Crisis says your action is needed by Thursday, December 31, 2009. Please act!
From their TAKE BACK CONTROL OF YOUR FOOD campaign:
There are two million farmers and 300 million eaters in the United States. Standing between them are a handful of corporations who control how food gets from one side to the other.
Let’s change the equation. Read more...
Last week, leaders of the food justice movement -- -- including Eric Schlosser and Robert Kenner, producer and director of the hard-hitting new documentary "Food, Inc." -- sent a strongly worded letter to Chipotle, the fastest growing company in fast-food, demanding that they live up to its claims of "Food with Integrity" and "work with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers as a true partner in the protection of farmworkers' rights."
Now it's your turn to get in on the action. Add your name to the letter to Chipotle CEO Steve Ells demanding real "food with integrity" and an end to the human rights crisis in Florida's tomato fields. Go to http://action.americanrightsatwork.org/campaign/chipotle to participate in this email action. Read more...