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Costa Fruit and Produce declined to comment on the status of the grape farms that provide their produce...
Many students, including members of the activist group UNITE, are against buying grapes because of the poor conditions under which grape workers are forced to labor, according to UNITE board members...
...Grape pickers in California work long days under arduous conditions in close proximity to pesticides. They are paid for the number of boxes of grapes they pick. The UFW called for a boycott because the conditions in the grape-picking industry were so dangerous that grape pickers could not find jobs that offered humane treatment, clean drinking water, health or accident insurance, and basic sanitation for the workers in the agricultural camps. The College has been a part of the boycott--which is currently upheld at Yale, Stanford and Duke--since 1992. Other parts of the Harvard community...
Unfortunately, the boycott has not yet been successful. However, this is no reason to lose hope or to waver in our support. The first battle seems to be in awareness: Harvard students need to be made aware that their grapes will most likely be from California, from the farms of those who refuse to listen to the call for humane treatment of their workers. The bad publicity and public-health risks that surrounded Chilean grapes in the late 80s nearly guarantees that Harvard will procure their grapes the quick and easy way, from the large and boycotted California grape producers...
...should call for stricter government enforcement of existing labor and pesticide regulations. Nevertheless, the grape workers' plight as a union cause celebre should not override the inconsistency in the staff's logic that if universally applied would leave our tables bare...