Food Slavery

AlterNet (March 16):"If you eat tomatoes, in America, between the months of December and May, chances are some were picked by slaves.
Immokalee, Florida, is where 90 percent of the nation's winter tomatoes are grown.
While slavery is one of the most egregious human rights violations in Immokalee, it's hardly the only one. Thousands of workers are regularly cheated and sometimes beaten by their crew bosses in the area's sprawling tomato fields.

And while most places in America can't grow tomatoes in winter, is this really a problem? Those Immokalee tomatoes, which are picked green and ripened in gas chambers, don't taste like tomatoes anyway." Read more.