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These days, this exploitation is perpetuated by the corporations at the top of the food chain: supermarkets. Their buying power has kept wages pitifully low and has created a scenario where desperately poor people are willing to put up with anything to keep their jobs.
Food Chains is a 2014 American documentary film about agricultural labor in the United States directed by Sanjay Rawal. It was the Recipient of the 2015 James Beard Foundation Award for Special/Documentary. [1] Summary. In Immokalee, Florida, migrant farmworkers pick fruits and vegetables that are sold to large US food wholesalers. [2] .
Director Sanjay Rawal attempts to find that balance in Food Chains, a documentary about farm workers in America and their perpetual struggle to earn a livable wage. The topic itself does read as fairly broad, but Rawal centers his documentary on tomato pickers in Immokalee, Florida and, specifically, around the continued efforts of the ...
This powerful true story of one small group of workers overcoming corporate greed to end slavery and abuse in America's fields will inspire you to demand your food be fair! "Offers a hysterical, touchingly relatable look at the kind of love that only exists in memory." The Knockturnal.
Food Chains tracks the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, an intrepid and highly lauded group of tomato pickers from Southern Florida as they battle the giant Floridian grocery chain, Publix. There is so much interest in food these days but very little interest in the hands that pick that food.
Nov 24, 2014 · ‘Food Chains’: Film Review. Sanjay Rawal's documentary chronicles the plight of migrant farm workers, specifically tomato pickers in Southern Florida. By THR Staff. November 24, 2014 10:55am....
Synopsis. This call to arms documentary details the questionable ethics of the food supply industry, pointing out the power of huge supermarket chains to dictate low wages and inhumane labor conditions for farmworkers in the United States. Cast. Crew. Details.
