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  Crisis must be addressed, even if it's not ideal

  That's a valid concern, TP, but at the same time we have to realize that industrial agriculture is not going away anytime soon. If we want to eat tomatoes for a large chunk of the year in the US, there's only certain places where they could grow. And if we want to eat said tomatoes at, for example, national restaurant or supermarket chains, well, there's only a certain scale of production that could meet that demand. Granted, I think we all want to eventually see a world where all agriculture is local, small-scale, organic, and so on. But until that happens, we can hardly sit idle as tens of thousands of people are subjected to just heinous working conditions and grinding poverty. The situation of farmworkers in industrial agriculture (and, more often than not, even on 'small' and organic farms) is dire and it needs to be addressed in the here and now.On Benitez of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers says deal imminent with Whole Foods posted 1 year, 2 months ago 4 Responses