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Trader Joe’s …Amanda Kloer, Change.org


                Trader Joe’s: Sell slave-free tomatoes             

A remarkable number of major supermarkets, restaurants and food  service companies have joined farm workers to fight wage theft,  widespread sexual harassment — even slavery — in Florida’s tomato  fields. But not Trader Joe’s.

Burger King, Subway and others are on board, paying $0.01 more per  pound of tomatoes to the farm workers who pick them and guaranteeing  their tomatoes are slave-free. But Trader Joe’s, despite their  progressive image, refuses to follow suit.

The Student Farmworker Alliance has started a petition on Change.org calling on Trader Joe’s to sell only slave-free tomatoes. The Florida tomato season starts in October, so getting an agreement  from Trader Joe’s in the next few weeks would be a huge victory. Will you sign the petition to get Trader Joe’s to join the Campaign for Fair Food and sell slave-free tomatoes now? http://www.change.org/petitions/ask-trader-joes-to-sell-slave-free-food

More than, 1,000 cases of real-life slavery in Florida’s tomato  fields have been investigated by the Department of Labor in the past 10  years. In these cases, workers were housed in overcrowded shacks on the  fields, paid poverty-level wages, had their identification documents  taken away and were robbed of their wages by employers who fabricated  debts to keep them working.

Trader Joe’s works hard on its image and prides itself on responding  to customers’ preferences. If enough customers (and potential customers)  tell Trader Joe’s they’ll only buy slave-free tomatoes guaranteed  through the Coalition of Immokalee Workers’ Campaign for Fair Food, it  will have to join.

Sign the Student Farmworker Alliance’s petition to get Trader  Joe’s to make sure its tomatoes are slave- and abuse-free by joining  CIW’s Campaign for Fair Food now:

http://www.change.org/petitions/ask-trader-joes-to-sell-slave-free-food

Thanks for being a change-maker,

Amanda and the Change.org team

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Not-so-hap​py meal …Michael Whitney, Change.org


McDonald’s wants you to “see what we’re made of.” Brace yourself.

The pork in your Egg McMuffin or McRib comes from pigs, of course. What you may not know is that those pigs are birthed by female “breeding” pigs who lead miserable lives, to put it mildly. They live in impossibly small enclosures called “gestation crates,” in which the pigs can barely move. These dirty, restrictive enclosures frequently cause pigs to become covered in sores, open wounds, and infections.

It doesn’t have to be that way: Burger King and Wendy’s have completely phased out gestation crates from their pork supply. Now it’s up to McDonald’s to do the same.

McDonald’s has the power to push its pork suppliers to eliminate gestation crates and improve the lives of female breeding pigs. Please add your name to the petition asking McDonald’s CEO Jim Skinner to ensure McDonald’s pork suppliers stop using gestation crates.

McDonald’s has paid lip service to freeing pigs from gestation crates; in 2007, the company even said moving away from these unnecessary enclosures was “at the top of its agenda.” Five years later, pigs at Smithfield Foods, where McDonald’s buys its pork, are still in gestation grates.

McDonald’s is the biggest customer of Smithfield Foods, the largest pork producer in the world. While Smithfield initially pledged to eliminate gestation crates entirely by 2017, the pork processing corporation went back on its promise in 2009.

Smithfield Foods initially blamed the poor economy for indefinitely sticking its pigs in cramped quarters. Yet now Smithfield is posting record profits, meaning the company can recommit to phasing out gestation crates by 2017.

Meredith Slater started a petition on Change.org asking McDonald’s CEO Jim Skinner to pressure Smithfield to renew its promise and completely phase out gestation crates by 2017. Click here to sign Meredith’s petition to bring McDonald’s in line with the rest of the fast food industry:

http://www.change.org/petitions/mcdonalds-stop-using-pork-from-abused-pigs

Thanks for being a change-maker,

– Michael and the Change.org team