“Shaping Generations”… United Methodist Women and the Fair Food Movement! Worker-driven, consumer-powered social responsibility: Moving video by United Methodist Women puts spotlight on crucial role of consumers in Fair Food Movement… Earlier this week we brought you a reflection on the “secret” behind the success of the CIW’s Fair Food Program, the fact that the Fair Food Program is a workers’ rights program that is designed, monitored, and enforced by the workers whose rights it is intended to protect.  But, truth be told, that is only part of the story.   The CIW’s vision for a more humane tomato industry would have remained forever a distant dream if tens of thousands of consumers, from Florida to California, hadn’t answered the workers’ call for a more just food system.  In fact, the unprecedented advances for human rights taking place in Florida’s fields today are firmly rooted in the unique alliance forged between farmworkers and consumers, an alliance that was born with the Taco Bell boycott in 2001 and has continued to gain strength and momentum every day since.  Without consumers forcefully demanding real, verifiable respect for human rights from the restaurants and supermarkets where they buy their food, corporations would never have made those demands part of the standards they require from their suppliers, and the Fair Food Program would never have been born.   Each and every ally who has ever spoken to the manager of his or her local grocery store about Fair Food, painted a protest sign, or marched a mile alongside workers has made an indispensable contribution to ending wage theft, sexual harassment and violence, and modern-day slavery in Florida’s fields, and to the development of a model that is poised to expand those gains to fields and crops well beyond Florida’s tomato industry.   Head over to the CIW website for this incredibly moving video from three generations of United Methodist Women...