Food Chains: Movie Review

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Food Chains How is it possible that the person who picks the fruits and vegetables so people can eat their meal, cannot afford theirs? Food Chains is a movie created to make an impact in the way society perceives migrant workers, and it surely made an impact on me. It’s amazing how far they will go just to earn one more cent per pound, in the tomatoes they pick. In this movie, a group of migrant workers decided to do something to get listened, a hunger strike. They were tired of not earning what they deserved and for being discriminated. I am glad they were heard by many companies as Wal-Mart, Taco bell, and Burger King, but at the same time I felt angry because Publix; a big company of grocery stores, didn’t listen to them after they

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