One of the worst things about industrial ag is that it is opaque - there is no way for a consumer to find out what labor conditions were at a farm that produced the food they're buying. You can get independent certifications for organic food, non-GMO, animal welfare...https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedNews/status/1279403589258170368 …
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...but not fair labor practices that insure farm workers are both safe and compensated fairly. I have a lot of questions about why consumers haven't pushed for a Fair Labor certification.
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Much like I have a lot of questions about why white militant herbivorous humans refer to their diet as "cruelty free" when their produce is picked by overwhelmingly Latinx farm workers laboring in conditions I wouldn't subject livestock to.
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I tried telling this over the top v*gan lad about this, and a lot of the misinformation about agriculture and he said I was anti-science. They just don’t want to hear it and it’s maddening.’
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