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Slave Labor Producing Fast Food Tomatoes?
Author Eric Schlosser, who wrote the best-selling book "Fast Food Nation," (about what you really don’t want to know about fast food) raises an interesting — and ominous — issue in a recent New York Times Opinion Page article. He suggests that the Burger King hamburger chain, rather than helping improve the lives and pay of migrant workers who pick tomatoes for your Whopper, is instead playing hardball with the organizations who represent the workers. These workers, it has long been alleged, are paid next to nothing and work in conditions that are tantamount to slave labor.
Burger King competitors, including McDonald’s and Yum Brands, have at least begun to recognize the slave labor issue, Schlosser says. But not Burger King, he adds.
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