#fair food program

Undocumented workers, poor people of all citizenship status, children, global workers all poured their blood and sweat into getting you some of those products for awful wages, so be sure to do your research before you claim your diet is ethical, okay?

I want that same energy you have for the cute cows & chickens (chickens kinda scare me tbh) to also go to those people out there bringing you your blood red strawberries and tear-stained blueberry.

If you are not advocating for the fair treatment of workers in the fields, and if you’re making purchases from places that have not signed the Fair Food Program, then you’re contributing to the neglect, harassment, and physical/sexual assault of farmworkers.

⚠️ making corrections ⚠️

This was originally written when I encountered people who were both vegan and racist/anti-immigrant

This is not a generalization or target on all vegans (just the racist ones)

If you have money 💰 to buy produce or meat, please LOOK INTO THE COMPANY

Cruelty-free: no animals harmed

Fair-trade: people treated well

Fair Food Program: intended to protect farm workers from rape, harassment, and assault while working

Places to Boycott & use your purchasing power

Wendy’s

Taco Bell

McDonald’s

Olive Garden

Publix

PLEASE ADD ON TO UNETHICAL PLACES TO AVOID!

I realize that sometimes people don’t have money to be picky. Please, just share the word if you can.

The time is up for corporate leaders who turn a blind eye to gender-based violence and labour abuses in their supply chain. #Wendys #BoycottWendys #FreedomFast

United States (OpenDemocracy) – From 11 to 15 March, Florida farmworkers from the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) and their allies will hold a five-day Freedom Fast outside the Manhattan office of Nelson Peltz, Wendy’s largest shareholder and chair of its board of directors. They will demand that Wendy’s joins other fast food chains in supporting the Fair Food Program, a CIW initiative that…

I just watched a documentary, and instantly wanted to do more research into the “Fair Food Program”.  If you have not heard of them, check out their link, HERE. Their documentary on Netflix is titled “Food Chains”. Walmart along with some other food companies have signed their agreement. It does not entitle much. It requires companies to not buy from organizations that sexual harass their employees, and refuse to pay them fairly. While this organization originated in Florida, with tomato pickers, they also want to raise awareness for other farmers around the world. Whether you shop at Publix, or not, please sign their petition, and spread the word!

Of course not! In fact, you get PIPs (Positive Impact Points) just for joining!

And once inside PIPs ‘world of good,’ you’ll find it’s not unlike a treasure hunt with every action unlocking even more PIPs reward points. We’ve partnered with the most responsible companies and NGOs (100+) so that you can earn rewards on every positive impact action you make simply by clicking through pipsrewards.com to their online store, service center or activist site before taking your action.

You can use those PIPs in countless ways - to download music or books, for discounts on everything from cool new gadgets to fitness club memberships and responsibly made products. You can also pool your PIPs and donate them to a cause of your choice or micro-invest them in awesome projects locally and globally. It's a total win-win - good in, good out.

I just purchased some eco-friendly toilet paper, kitty litter and gluten-free snacks from Vine and racked up 275 PIPs.

What I really love about the PIPs Rewards platform is I can set up an auto-pledge so that a portion of the PIPs I earn is automatically set aside for a charity of my choosing. I set it up to give 10% of all the PIPs I earn to Fair Food Program. It’s great: My regular PIPs activity adds up and Fair Food Program reaps the benefits. Oh, I benefit too, with a double jolt of good karma.

Some members have noticed that certain products in the PIPs Rewards catalog cost more than they cost elsewhere. We do the best we can to find the best deals on products featured in our catalog, but we are limited in some cases by the affiliate programs with which we partner.  Can’t really explain it but Amazon, for example, won’t let us award PIPs to shoppers we direct to them. So we have no Amazon products in our Earn catalog.

We can’t stop you from seeking the lowest price on a product you need, but hope you'll see the value in what the PIPs platform offers. We curate all our offerings so you know that this action or that service delivers a positive impact. In addition, we do everything we can to provide you with products at the best price. And we also offer many of those same products in our redemption catalog, often at discount, so you can really save when using your PIPs to purchase them.