“'Women were routinely sexually assaulted in the field. People were held against their will, forced to work, and everyone faced wage theft,' Asbed said in an interview with MacArthur Foundation, referring to farming conditions in 1993, when CIW started.
'The food movement doesn’t take labor issues as seriously as it should. Yet you can’t have sustainable, delicious food without workers,' Raj Patel, a writer, food activist and research professor at University of Texas, Austin, said in an email. '[Coalition for Immokalee Workers] has found new ways to bring that concern to the mainstream.'”
~ Alex Orlov
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