By Jenn Wilder As you watch this short two-minute video, take a look at those buckets, the red ones. Have you ever seen one before? This bucket is known as a “cubete” if you’re a farmworker in Immokalee, Florida, the majority of whom are Spanish-speaking immigrants. Compensation per-bucket has not increased since 1980. Immokalee rhymes [...]
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The Right to Adequate Food: An Answer to Food Insecurity
By Shailly Barnes Recently, Laurie Garrett, Senior Fellow for Global Health at the Council on Foreign Relations, claimed that every aspect of our food production – from farming, harvesting, delivery and distribution – must improve dramatically to meet our growing global demand for food. Her assertion is a commonly held belief and practice, evident in [...]
