The third video also ends with a look to the future of the Fair Food Program, which the CNN report calls “the most comprehensive social responsibility program in U.S. agriculture.” Judge Laura Safer Espinoza, the Executive Director of the Fair Food Standards Council which monitors and enforces the FFP code of conduct, addresses the remarkable labor reforms that have taken place under the FFP’s protections, but laments the fact that the FFP’s complaint line continues to receive calls from workers reporting harrowing human rights violations on the vast number of farms that remain outside of the Program.
CNN on FFP, Part III: “When we get calls from outside the Fair Food Program, it is heartbreaking”
Today we bring you the third and final installment of the extraordinary CNN report on the Fair Food Program, “How America’s ‘ground-zero’ for modern slavery was cleaned up by workers’ group.” This third video focuses on the history of the CIW’s anti-slavery efforts, and on the development and expansion of the Fair Food Program as the principal means for eliminating forced labor on participating farms. It is the perfect complement to the first two installments, which focused on the CIW’s Campaign for Fair Food and the daily, concrete changes in workers’ lives on the ground on Fair Food Program farms, respectively.