The industrialization of organic: the exploitation of workers and the looting of water resources

The industrialization of organic: the exploitation of workers and the looting of water resources

The reverse side of the industrialization of organic farming. In Spain, vegetable farms registered in organic farming make foreign workers work for poor wages and in disastrous working conditions, in the same way as conventional intensive farms. Amadou, an agricultural worker, testifies: in mid-summer at 45 degrees "when there is a lot of sun, people fall". Workers are poorly paid and housed in slums. These operations draw without any limit from the lakes and streams of the region. For Felipe FUENTELSAZ, activist of WWF Spain, the spirit of organic has been diverted by the consumer society

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File : Behind the organic label

Publication date : 7 February 2017