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Members of the ad hoc Grape Coalition, which wants to remove the boycott, meet in advance of the upcoming referendum. More than 20 students attend the planning session, led by Adam R. Kovacevich '99, chair of the Coalition and son of a California grape grower...
Until recently, most involved with the debate assumed that a vote for only UFW approved grapes would, from a practical standpoint, result in an effective ban on grapes, since only one grape grower in California--Nash-De Camp--has signed an agreement with the UFW, according to Mark Grossman, director of the UFW's press division and Cesar Chavez's press secretary from...
Based in Visalia, California, Nash-De Camp owns 1,000 acres of vineyards in Delano, California, as well as vineyards in Chile, and acts as grower, a packer, and a shipper of grapes under the Sunpower brand name. It handles almost 70 million pounds of grapes a year--two-thirds from California, and the remainder from Chile...
...From the grower's perspective, says the elder John Kovacevich, the recent controversy over Harvard Dining Services' grape boycott seems surprising...
...grower, is out there in the fields every bit as much as a worker--why would he spray himself with pesticides?" he asked...