Working Life Podcast: The Dark Side of Whole Foods

The Real News Podcast · Oct 16, 2019 · 59m

Episode 152: The Dark Side of Whole Foods; Bowman Looking To Unseat Corporate Democrat

The running joke about Whole Foods is its nickname: Whole Paycheck. But there’s a far darker side to the touchy-feely, organic feel of Whole Foods than the higher prices—the exploitation of workers everywhere along its supply chains where workers labor in slave-like conditions, and are abused day after day, especially women workers. Oxfam is out with a devastating report on Whole Foods—and I talk with an Oxfam expert about what the report found.

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