Newly released book — including chapters from Eric Schlosser, Michael Pollan, and Senator Cory Booker — to accompany spring release of sequel to Oscar-nominated, Emmy Award-winning documentary Food, Inc.
CIW: “Through the unrelenting struggle and sacrifice of tens of thousands of workers and their consumer allies, the CIW’s successful efforts have transformed an industry once dubbed ‘ground zero for modern-day slavery’ by federal prosecutors into what one expert called ‘The best working environment in American agriculture’ on the front page of the New York Times…”
“… Refusing to be trapped by poverty and powerlessness, they organized in their own community and educated consumers across the country, faced off against some of the world’s largest corporations, and won. In the process, those same farmworkers created a new model for the protection of human rights in corporate supply chains globally, a model known today as worker-driven social responsibility (WSR). ”
The new book “Food, Inc. 2: Inside the Quest for a Better Future for Food” — published last month ahead of the spring release of the long-awaited sequel to the 2008 Oscar-nominated documentary “Food, Inc.” — includes a chapter on the remarkable history of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers and the groundbreaking Fair Food Program that is a must-read for members of the Fair Food Nation, whose tireless support helped end generations of farm labor abuse, transform an industry, and launch a new model for human rights protection in corporate supply chains around the globe!
The newly published book is a companion to the highly anticipated documentary film Food, Inc. 2. The film features famed food writers Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser as they take us on a wide-ranging tour of our broken food system. From factory farms to monopolies creating fragile supply chains and industrial scale farming exploiting farmworkers, the film provides an unflinching look at U.S. agriculture, but also provides several vital rays of hope. Shining brightly among those rays are the CIW and the Fair Food Program.
The story of the Fair Food Program and the CIW’s larger struggle for dignity in the fields is brilliantly told by the CIW’s own Gerardo Reyes Chavez in the film, himself a farmworker for more than a decade. Through extended interviews, Gerardo walks the viewer through the CIW’s Campaign for Fair Food, launched in 2001, the birth of the Presidential Medal-winning Fair Food Program in 2011, and the urgent need to expand this uniquely successful worker-driven program as far and wide as possible today. With an eye to practical, proven solutions to the food system’s many ills, “Food, Inc. 2” and its companion book champion the Fair Food Program as the answer to preventing forced labor and other extreme abuses in agriculture, with a long and unequaled track record of results.
We're including an excerpt of our chapter on our website. If you’d like to read the rest of the chapter and the book — which includes chapters from Michael Pollan, Eric Schlosser, and Senator Cory Booker — you can purchase it here or look for a copy at your local library!
