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Food Chains
January 09, 2025
January is National Human Trafficking Prevention Month.
As part of the Franciscan Peace Center's commitment to education and advocacy, they will be hosting a virtual screening and talkback session for the film “Food Chains.”
“Food Chains” reveals the human cost in our food supply and the complicity of large buyers of produce like fast food and supermarkets. Supermarkets earn $4 trillion globally. They 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. In this exposé, an intrepid group of Florida farmworkers battle to defeat the global supermarket industry through their ingenious Fair Food program, which partners with growers and retailers to improve working conditions for farm laborers in the United States. Their story is one of hope and promise for the triumph of morality over corporate greed – to ensure a dignified life for farm workers and a more humane, transparent food chain.
The link to view this film will be distributed immediately upon registration, and participants are invited to join the talkback session from 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm CST on January 23, 2025. During the talkback session, the Franciscan Peace Center will be joined by members of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers as we discuss issues related to labor trafficking including forced migration, unsafe working conditions, and unfair wages.
You are invited to join. Please click HERE to register for the talk back session.
A preview of the film is available HERE.
If you have questions, please contact Marsha Thrall at mthrall@clintonfranciscans.com.
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