{"id":922,"date":"2011-06-16T03:39:04","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T07:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thiscontemplativelife.com\/?p=922"},"modified":"2011-06-16T03:39:04","modified_gmt":"2011-06-16T07:39:04","slug":"the-true-cost-of-tomatoes-slavery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/2011\/06\/16\/the-true-cost-of-tomatoes-slavery\/","title":{"rendered":"The True Cost of Tomatoes: Slavery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u201cAnd this,\u201d Laura Germino, who has worked on the campaign since its  inception, said to me when I visited last month, \u201cis not \u2018slavery-like,\u2019  or \u2018exploitation\u2019 \u2014 it\u2019s actual slavery, as defined by federal law.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/06\/14\/the-true-cost-of-tomatoes\/?src=me&amp;ref=general\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thiscontemplativelife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/florida_tomato_picker.png\" alt=\"tomaot picker\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>click here for the whole article by Mark Bittman in the NYT:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/06\/14\/the-true-cost-of-tomatoes\/?src=me&amp;ref=general\">Improved Conditions for Florida Tomato-Harvest Workers &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAnd this,\u201d Laura Germino, who has worked on the campaign since its inception, said to me when I visited last month, \u201cis not \u2018slavery-like,\u2019 or&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,7,13],"tags":[204,250,307],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}