MV Times published a conversation about ethical food choices. The magazine interviewed Ruth Faden, founder of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Ethics. She talked about unfair labor practices in agriculture and what consumers who are interested in making better purchases can do.
Faden said Equitable Food Initiative is a reliable certification consumers can easily identify in the supermarket.
“There’s something called the Equitable Food Initiative that is in the practice of certifying farms in North America, Canada, and Mexico, to certify that farms are free of forced labor and other violations of human rights. For example, right now, Costco and Whole Foods are working with the EFI — those are big retailers! So it might become relatively easy for consumers to identify produce in Costco that comes from farms with the equitable label. Right now there are only about 30 farms in North America. It’s going to take a while to scale up,” she added.
