Articles from October 2010
Posted by Barry on October 25, 2010
Just a little over a week after Pacific Tomato Growers, one of the top five tomato producers in Florida, came aboard the Coalition of Immokalee Workers’ Fair Food effort (see previous post), the state’s largest producer has followed suit. Here is the press release: With the the 2010 tomato season just around the corner, momentum […]
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Posted by Barry on October 18, 2010
Coalition of Immokalee Workers Photograph A few months ago, I attended an amateur boxing match in Immokalee, Fla., an agricultural community in the southwestern part of the state. It didn’t look like it was going to be a fair fight. In one corner was a strapping fellow in his late teens or early 20s. […]
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Posted by Barry on October 11, 2010
Though we had agreed to meet at 9 a.m., Ingrid Bengis-Palei woke me at 7, shouting from the bottom of the stairs leading to the apartment where I was staying above her barn on Deer Isle, Me. She had orders for 600 oysters, a third of which had to be overnighted to Beverly Hills to […]
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Posted by Barry on October 8, 2010
Our prehistoric ancestors in Southeast Asia had good reason to domesticate the area’s wild sheep instead of tigers. Sheep were docile creatures that preferred to live together in flocks and could convert grass and weeds that humans couldn’t digest into valuable protein. Tigers were solitary and wide-ranging and needed to be fed many times […]
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