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 Stories About: ag policy AND Colorado AND food and agriculture AND Victual Reality
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Food and Punishment
Colorado's inmates-as-farmworkers plan says plenty about our food culture |
Tom Philpott |
15 Mar 2007 |
Victual Reality |
| Last summer, the Colorado General Assembly passed some of the nation's most rigorous anti-immigrant policy laws. Debate was fierce -- but only because some GOP lawmakers fumed that the Democratic-engineered crackdown wasn't draconian enough. How times have changed. Essentially, the state's political elite -- backed editorially by The Denver Post -- took aim at its low-wage wo ... |
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| Topics: ag policy, Colorado, food and agriculture, Victual Reality (all these topics) |
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