Inside Costa Rica » exploitation https://insidecostarica.com Costa Rica's Leading English Language News Source Fri, 28 Sep 2018 21:35:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.2 Why the United States is receiving human feces-covered cilantrohttps://insidecostarica.com/2015/07/29/united-states-receiving-human-feces-covered-cilantro/ https://insidecostarica.com/2015/07/29/united-states-receiving-human-feces-covered-cilantro/#comments Wed, 29 Jul 2015 08:00:38 +0000 Inside Costa Rica Staff http://insidecostarica.com/?p=18330 The thing most people are missing is that this story isn't just about contaminated cilantro making Americans sick and the FDA taking measures to stop it. It's about exploitative labor conditions that led to the contamination and about the economic realities that sustain those conditions — like the fact that Americans like cheap cilantro and other agricultural products.

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