9. Food Chains
Site rank 4, IMDb rank 4 Overall Rank = 8
Directed by Sanjay Rawal
Year: 2014
Produced by Eva Longoria and narrated by Forest Whitaker, Food Chains explores the treatment of agricultural workers in America. The film follows the struggle of migrant workers in Immokalee, Florida against the food corporation and their effort to raise the price of tomatoes they pick by one penny per pound. The condition in which these workers live and work, often described as modern-day slavery, warrant much bigger raise than that, but still it took some drastic measures, like a hunger strike, to get Pubix, the corporation in question, to even agree to talk to them. If nothing else, after watching the film, next time you buy groceries in a supermarket you’ll spend a moment to reflect on the people who picked it for you.
