Food Chains.
Food Chains.
- 1 online resource (streaming video file) (83 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Title from title frames. Film In Process Record.
Originally produced by Visit Films in 2014.
There is more interest in food these days than ever, yet there is very little interest in the hands that pick it. Farmworkers who form the foundation of our fresh food industry are routinely abused and robbed of wages. In extreme cases they can be beaten, sexually harassed or even enslaved – all within the borders of the United States. FOOD CHAINS exposes the human cost in our food supply and the complicity of the supermarket industry. Supermarkets earn 4 trillion globally and have tremendous power over the agricultural system. Over the past 3 decades they have drained revenue from their supply chain leaving farmworkers in poverty and forced to work under subhuman conditions. Yet supermarkets take no responsibility for this. The narrative of the film focuses on an intrepid and highly lauded group of tomato pickers from Southern Florida – the Coalition of Immokalee Workers or CIW - who are revolutionizing farm labor.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
In English,Spanish
13116295 Kanopy
Agriculture.
Farms.
Economic development.
Human rights.
Documentary films.
Business.
Science.
Social sciences.
Documentary films.
Title from title frames. Film In Process Record.
Originally produced by Visit Films in 2014.
There is more interest in food these days than ever, yet there is very little interest in the hands that pick it. Farmworkers who form the foundation of our fresh food industry are routinely abused and robbed of wages. In extreme cases they can be beaten, sexually harassed or even enslaved – all within the borders of the United States. FOOD CHAINS exposes the human cost in our food supply and the complicity of the supermarket industry. Supermarkets earn 4 trillion globally and have tremendous power over the agricultural system. Over the past 3 decades they have drained revenue from their supply chain leaving farmworkers in poverty and forced to work under subhuman conditions. Yet supermarkets take no responsibility for this. The narrative of the film focuses on an intrepid and highly lauded group of tomato pickers from Southern Florida – the Coalition of Immokalee Workers or CIW - who are revolutionizing farm labor.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
In English,Spanish
13116295 Kanopy
Agriculture.
Farms.
Economic development.
Human rights.
Documentary films.
Business.
Science.
Social sciences.
Documentary films.