Word: costas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard will purchase the grapes from Costa Fruit and Produce, a distributor based in Boston...
...been doing business with Harvard for several years now," said Brad Woodgate, vice-president of Costa. "And it's always just been a forgone conclusion that Harvard didn't purchase grapes because of the Cesar Chavez situation, and nobody's ever pursued...
Many other schools never implemented a boycott at all. According to Woodgate, all of other schools served by Costa currently include grapes in their menu, including Northeastern, Lesley and parts of UMass...
Mark Givens, an operating manager at Corrin--which supplies 75 percent of Costa's grapes--said California growers have responded to many union demands...
Nevertheless, shark cartilage is hot, and sharks are being slaughtered wholesale to produce it; a single processing plant in Costa Rica reportedly turns 235,000 sharks into cartilage pills every month. Sharks are also taken by the millions for their fins--a practice that scientists and conservationists find especially disturbing. Often the fins are hacked off and the sharks are thrown back into the water, alive but mortally wounded, to bleed to death...