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Slow Food Nation: A New, Fair Food System

Slow Food Nation

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Greg Asbed - Greg Asbed is on the staff of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers.

Lucas Benitez - Lucas Benitez is a Co-Director of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers.

Maricela Morales - As Associate Executive Director of the Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy, Maricela oversees CAUSE’s Health Access and Equity and Women SEE Justice projects.

Jose Padilla - José R. Padilla, a lawyer and activist, has been the executive director of California Rural Legal Assistance since 1984.

Augustin Ramirez - Augustin Ramirez is an organizer for the International Longshore and Warehouse Union.

Eric Schlosser - Eric Schlosser has been a correspondent for the Atlantic Monthly since 1996. After graduating from Princeton with a degree in American History, Schlosser tried his hand at several professions (playwright, novelist, script writer) before finally turning to non-fiction in his early thirties. Although his idea for an article on homosexuals in the military was turned down by the Atlantic Monthly, the magazine offered him another assignment: writing about the New York City bomb squad after the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

Other assignments followed, one of which was about America and its fast food industry. What began as a simple magazine article turned into an international bestseller. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All American Meal, was on the New York Times bestsellers list for nearly two years. It appeared on the bestseller lists of the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Boston Globe, the Washington Post, USA Today, Business Week, and Publishers Weekly, as well as on bestseller lists in Canada, Great Britain and Japan.

His second New York Times bestseller, Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market (May 2003), was also inspired by his earlier articles on the enforcement of marijuana laws in America and illegal immigration in California. His two-part series, "Reefer Madness" and "Marijuana and the Law" (Altantic Montly, August and September, 1994), won a National Magazine Award for reporting, and his article, "In the Strawberry Fields" (Atlantic Monthly, November 1995), received a Sidney Hillman Foundation award.

Schlosser has appeared on 60 Minutes, CNN, CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, FOX News, The O'Reilly Factor, and Extra!. He has been interviewed on NPR and covered in Entertainment Weekly, USA Today, and the New York Times. His work also has appeared in Rolling Stone and The New Yorker.

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01 hr 34 min 24 sec

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01.: Introduction

04 min 42 sec

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02.: Workers in the Food Industry

03 min 25 sec

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03.: Justice for Farmworkers in Slow Food Movement

03 min 09 sec

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04.: Background of California Farmworkers

07 min 00 sec

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05.: Dangerous Working Conditions on Farms

06 min 16 sec

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06.: Heat Stress Deaths

05 min 33 sec

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07.: Mission of Slow Food Nation

00 min 56 sec

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08.: Low Wages in Dairy Farms

03 min 39 sec

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09.: Sexual Exploitation of Farmworker Women

04 min 59 sec

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10.: Shack Living Conditions

07 min 33 sec

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11.: Immokalee, Florida

04 min 32 sec

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12.: Low Pay for Farmworkers

05 min 29 sec

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13.: Organizing Efforts in Florida

04 min 59 sec

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14.: Price Pressures on Farms

03 min 50 sec

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15.: Agreements Guaranteeing Workers

05 min 20 sec

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16.: Including Workers in Sustainable Food Movement

03 min 48 sec

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17.: Beginnings in Napa

02 min 48 sec

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18.: Blue Diamond Almond Growers

04 min 35 sec

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19.: Union Success

02 min 10 sec

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20.: Solidarity for Justice

03 min 09 sec

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21.: Steps to Achieve Fair Food

06 min 23 sec

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FORA.tv Editors bring you The Big Ideas:

The Pressures Keeping Wages Down for Farmworkers

03 min 29 sec

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Workers' Rights as Part of the Fair Food Agenda

02 min 59 sec

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Almond Workers Organize in California

04 min 27 sec

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Partner:: Slow Food Nation
Location:: Slow Food Nation
San Francisco, CA
Event Date:: 08.29.08
Speakers:: Greg Asbed,; Lucas Benitez,; Maricela Morales,; Jose Padilla,; Augustin Ramirez,; Eric Schlosser

Summary: Many consumers have no idea what it takes to get their food to the table. This panel will focus on current conditions and the future potential for the millions of men and women who harvest and process the food we eat each day.

Activists who campaign on behalf of farm and meatpacking workers will discuss how to create a system in which eating well and treating people right lead to success, sustainability and profitability for all - Slow Food Nation