Damaging Los Angeles Times Article About Mexican Labor
A few months ago, we started getting calls from US produce companies who expected to be criticized in a report in the Los Angeles Times. Well, now the four-section/photo-montage series is out; and the series is a blockbuster. Everyone in the produce industry should read it and watch the videos in it. It may win the Pulitzer because it is thorough and large, and shows a substantial commitment of resources, and because it fits ideologically with those who judge these sort of things. But in the end, it is a piece that is incomplete and not very well thought out. However, the industry would be very foolish to ignore it for the following reasons. …