Taco Bell is indirectly using slave labor and couldn't care less.

[blondeatlast]

Wow, I went looking for an organized diamond boycott and look what I find in my own backyard:

Over the past five years, U.S. Justice Department officials have successfully prosecuted five slavery rings operating in South Florida. Three of the cases involved tomato pickers in the Immokalee area, the heart of Florida's $600-million-a-year tomato industry and one of many communities where Taco Bell has influence as a major buyer of tomatoes.

Taco Bell has been urged by dozens of groups to do something about the abuses of the growers and labor contractors it does business with. But they have made it clear they don't care if their food is made with slave labor.

When asked in a radio interview whether Taco Bell could guarantee that there was no slavery behind their tomatoes, the best answer a company spokesperson could muster was that "slavery was abolished years ago in this country... in case you didn't know."
more...

http://ga0.org/campaign/boycottthebell/explanation

Thanks much to justinpower for the reference. It's a great site, check it out. But be prepared to be shocked...

edit: punchy subject line, partial article

[mobuto]

1. Boycott Boston Market too

They get their potato products from Chef Solutions, one of the most anti-worker companies on the planet. They crazy shit like pull guns on employees who're trying to organize. Really.

[guitar man]

4. Sounds like

the employees need to start packing their own guns to work with them if that's the way they want to play it.

[eaprez]

5. Sounds Like

....WalMart!

[pstokely]

19. Subway and IHOP buy products from Chef Solutions

?

[Dark]

2. I've always boycotted Taco Bell . . .

but mostly because of the stories that I've heard about what the employees do to their food, not because how they get it.

[ixion]

3. yep, me too

worst mexican food ever.

[eissa]

6. Taco Bell serves Mexican food? n/t

[blondeatlast]

8. Is that what it is???

[rene moon]

9. That's not mexican food

That "white man food" disguised as "Mexican" food

[ixion]

10. true...

I stand corrected. :hi:

[blondeatlast]

11. I've had "Anglo" made eMexican food--

TB doesn't even qualify for that!

[Kazak]

7. My TB boycott began while I was in college...

That was about nine years ago.

[nickgutierrez]

12. CIW site

Coalition of Immokalee workers, has a lot of information on the boycott and related information.

http://www.ciw-online.org/

[blondeatlast]

15. Great info--SoCal DUers; there's a march on Irvine HQ coming up!

This is the first I have heard of this. Let's get the word out, DUers!

[Lisa0825]

13. Awwwwww man...........

I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE Taco Bell! It's my favorite fast food. Dammit.... now I'm gonna be soooo conflicted!

steak grilled stufft burrito..... YUM!

[Gin]

16. I like TB too.....crap...my list of places to shop is narrowing...

gin

[blondeatlast]

17. Actaully, I do too on occasion. I love taco supremes,

but I sure as hell will give them up now.

[camero]

14. Check out Bill Maxwell's articles

http://www.stpetetimes.com

He has been on this for a long time. Lots of good stuff there.

[PVnRT]

18. I guess I have a political reason now

to avoid eating that hastily-prepared slop.

[blondeatlast]

20. "I hate slavery" kick.

:kick: