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Tell Chipotle to Sign Anti-Slavery Agreement
  1. Signatures
    981 out of 1,000
    Petitioning
    1. Chipotle Communications Director (Chris Arnold)
  2. Created By
    Kristen Ridley
    Pasadena, CA
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Chipotle, a leader for sustainability in the fast food world, claims to provide "Food With Integrity," but the workers who plant and grow the food have been left out of the picture. Modern-day slavery is still a disturbing reality in American farm fields. Workers are lured in by producers on guest worker visas only to have their passports stolen. Threatened with violence, rape, and deportation, they are forced to work for little or even no pay. Over one thousand such slaves have been freed from Florida fields alone since 1997.

The much-lauded labor group, the Coalition of Immolekee Workers (CIW) has been after Chipotle for years to join nearly every other major fast food company and sign on to its Campaign for Fair Food in which restaurants and food service providers agree to pay another penny per pound for produce grown by farms that meet CIW's conduct standards. But while even McDonald's and Taco Bell have caved to the pressure to fight agricultural abuse and slavery, Chipotle still refuses. They fooled a lot of people by saying they agreed to the campaigns standards, but only voluntarily, and they are really using their own private standards. Without transparency and accountability there can be no change.

Tell Chipotle to get some real Integrity. Tell them to join with the CIW and fight unequivically against agricultural slavery.

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Join the Campaign for Fair Food

Greetings,

As a Chipotle customer, I am deeply concerned with Chipotle's resistance to joining the Coalition of Immokalee Workers' (CIW) Campaign for Fair Food.

Agricultural workers are subjected to back-breaking conditions for low wages, few labor protections, and no overtime pay — sometimes they are even forced to work for little or no pay. As numerous federal indictments indicate, agricultural slavery is all too real a problem in this country.

The CIW is one of the most respected organizations working to enfranchise workers and fight these problems. McDonald's, Burger King, Taco Bell, and many others have joined in signing transparent, accountable agreements with the CIW, and yet Chipotle has refused to even meet with them.

We are tired of the spin and the halfway tactics. I urge you to meet with the CIW and join their Campaign for Fair Food, or you risk not only your integrity, but paying customers who expect Chipotle to live up to its promises of more ethical food as well.

[Your name]

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