Racial Injustice in Food Production: Is the Income Gap an Accident?

Image: La Nueva Salamanca If you’re in the market for tortillas, buying from a local factory might sound like the most responsible choice, right? What if you knew that a worker (a 22-year-old new father) there had been killed by a dough-mixing machine, potentially because of unsafe factory-wide practices? Unless we’re buying directly from a local farmer, we don’t know any more about who … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Racial Injustice in Food Production: Is the Income Gap an Accident?

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Racial Injustice in Food Production: Is the Income Gap an Accident?

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Image: La Nueva Salamanca If you’re in the market for tortillas, buying from a local factory might sound like the most responsible choice, right? What if you knew that a worker (a 22-year-old new father) there had been killed by a dough-mixing machine, potentially because of unsafe factory-wide practices? Unless we’re buying directly from a local farmer, we don’t know any more about who … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Racial Injustice in Food Production: Is the Income Gap an Accident?

Posted by on February 18, 2011. Filed under News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry