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For over a decade, while the Fair Food Program has steadily grown and emerged as the new gold standard for ending human rights violations in the agricultural industry, Kroger, one of the largest grocery store chains in the entire country, has steadfastly refused to join the FFP and ensure that the farmworkers who make its profits possible are protected by the program’s best-in-class monitoring and enforcement mechanisms.
And over that same time period, Kroger has been connected to not just one, but two forced labor operations discovered by law enforcement agencies in its supply chain.
When companies like Kroger, Publix, and Wendy’s refuse to join the Fair Food Program, their high volume produce purchases help reinforce the existence of two, parallel worlds within US agriculture: The world of dignity and respect under the protections of the Fair Food Program on the one hand, where farmworkers are the frontline monitors of their own rights backed by the purchasing power of the FFP’s 14 major buyers, and the world of grinding poverty and desperation outside the FFP on the other, where farmworkers toil in an atmosphere of fear and have little or no recourse when faced with abuse.
Related article: https://apnews.com/article/rfk-jr-presidential-campaign-independent-2024-30d940109c4956de9c81f332ec418463
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By The Left WingFor over a decade, while the Fair Food Program has steadily grown and emerged as the new gold standard for ending human rights violations in the agricultural industry, Kroger, one of the largest grocery store chains in the entire country, has steadfastly refused to join the FFP and ensure that the farmworkers who make its profits possible are protected by the program’s best-in-class monitoring and enforcement mechanisms.
And over that same time period, Kroger has been connected to not just one, but two forced labor operations discovered by law enforcement agencies in its supply chain.
When companies like Kroger, Publix, and Wendy’s refuse to join the Fair Food Program, their high volume produce purchases help reinforce the existence of two, parallel worlds within US agriculture: The world of dignity and respect under the protections of the Fair Food Program on the one hand, where farmworkers are the frontline monitors of their own rights backed by the purchasing power of the FFP’s 14 major buyers, and the world of grinding poverty and desperation outside the FFP on the other, where farmworkers toil in an atmosphere of fear and have little or no recourse when faced with abuse.
Related article: https://apnews.com/article/rfk-jr-presidential-campaign-independent-2024-30d940109c4956de9c81f332ec418463
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Cory Bradford: https://www.tiktok.com/@thisiscory
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