Category: A Year to Dine with Dignity: May 2009 – August 2010

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Blowback: Chipotle’s ride on “Food, Inc.” coattails not exactly a hit in the blogosphere…

Blowback: Chipotle’s ride on “Food, Inc.” coattails not exactly a hit in the blogosphere…

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Mainstream investor blog "The Motley Fool": "Let's just hope that if the company supports any similar efforts in the future, it'll first make sure it's truly ready for its close-up." As reports continue to flood in from theaters around the country of the blowback from Chipotle's latest PR gambit, including the photo above from Fair Food allies in New York >> Read More
The “Battle of the Burrito” rages on in cities across the country!

The “Battle of the Burrito” rages on in cities across the country!

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  Chipotle sponsors free screenings of the hit new documentary "Food, Inc."; Fair Food activists crash the burrito giant's PR party, bring truth about labor conditions in Chipotle's tomato supply chain to moviegoers from Berkeley to Baltimore... Click here to see the full photo report! And read below ("Demand Chipotle show farmworkers the same respect they show small farmers") for >> Read More

“Demand Chipotle show farmworkers the same respect they show small farmers!”

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Chipotle hitches a ride on coattails of hit documentary "Food, Inc.," sponsors free screenings in theaters across the country; Campaign for Fair Food allies there to remind moviegoers of reality behind the "Food with Integrity" hype... Never one to do a good deed quietly, Chipotle and its crack PR department recognized a golden opportunity to promote the company's brand by >> Read More

Take Action: Tell Chipotle to stop stiff-arming farmworkers!

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Take Action: Tell Chipotle to stop stiff-arming farmworkers! Last week, leaders of the food justice movement -- including Eric Schlosser and Robert Kenner, producer and director of the hard-hitting new documentary "Food, Inc." -- sent a strongly-worded letter to Chipotle demanding that they "work with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers as a true partner in the protection of farmworkers' rights." >> Read More

Dictionary: hy·poc·ri·sy

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Dictionary: hy·poc·ri·sy 1. The practice of professing beliefs, feelings or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness Dictionary: Chi·poc·ri·sy... The phenomenon known as "Chipocrisy" was in the news this past week, beginning with the June 15th open letter by more than two dozen leading sustainable food activists calling on Chipotle to live up to its claims of "Food >> Read More

Food justice leaders to Chipotle:

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Food justice leaders to Chipotle: "We view the CIW’s struggle for dignity as a non-negotiable part of the struggle for a sustainable food system." "Food, Inc." director (Robert Kenner) and co-producer (Eric Schlosser) join more than two dozen sustainable food movement leaders in open letter to burrito giant Chipotle! In a strongly worded letter, more than two dozen of the >> Read More

“A Tale of Two Groceries”…

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Publix, Whole Foods taking sharply different approaches to farm labor injustice in tomato supply chain "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times;... it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair;..." "Immokalee workers turn eye toward Publix," Ft. Myers News-Press 6/5/09 "Editorial: Publix should back tomato workers' fight," News-Press 6/6/09 The oft-quoted >> Read More