It’s a daunting task to search out truly “clean foods,” but in the end, our choices make a difference not only with our own health, but in others' quality of life. Food Chains takes us directly to the fields in the U.S. where our foods are grown and then picked, by hands that in essence are paid in slave wages. We meet the families that barely survive on these wages and see the new leaders of this group of underrepresented people trying to improve their conditions. What would it take? Not much. Paying a few cents more on fruits and vegetables in the grocery store. Think about it. How many times have you seen a dime on the ground and neglected to pick it up because it wasn’t worth it to you. That’s all it would take in the store to make thousands of hardworking field hands live a better life. Shopping at stores that support this endeavor is one way that you can make a difference and “Food Chains” creates the story to support doing this.
In Food Chains, farmworkers in Florida picking tomatoes are paid by the bucket.
In Food Chains, workers wait to be picked up for work in Immokalee, Florida at dawn.