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...sorts has been laid by Jack Herer's book The Emperor Wears No Clothes, an investigative history of marijuana and its uses. Groups like the Cannabis Action Network have brought youth and an environmentalist ethic into the trend. And the new film The Money Tree, about a pot grower, gives hempsters a movie to call their...
...Growers say that when they complain about the arrangement, the processors sometimes retaliate by terminating the relationship. Other growers say they have been penalized by processors who underweigh their chickens or give them ailing chicks to raise. In a trial in Arkansas last June, a former manager for Cargill, a major turkey producer, testified that "if you've got ((a grower)) you've just had it with, you might give him the bad ((birds)) just so he'd quit." Despite the testimony, the grower was unable to prove his case...
...Growers too have been frustrated after decades of attempting to organize. But a year ago, 35 growers from nine states met in a hunting lodge in the Arkansas Ozarks and launched a national group. Since then, hundreds of farmers in Arkansas alone have signed on, many of them paying dues anonymously. "Yes, I'm afraid," says grower Don Allen, a leader of the Arkansas movement. "And that's a terrible thing to say in the land of the free and the home of the brave." Last February a Tyson memo to managers urged them to spread the word that...
Rural alienation runs deep. "They signed this complicated treaty without telling anyone," said Michel Forgeron, a Segonzac grape grower whose calloused hands and weathered face attest to a life outdoors. "Now we don't know where we are going." Until recently, he sold the spirits he distilled from 40 acres to Cognac's family firms. Now multinationals such as Seagram and Guinness have moved in: even Monnet's old company was once sold to Germans and then to Britons. "Decision makers in Toronto or Paris do not care whether we live or die," said Forgeron's wife Francine...
...been lost and much of the rest lies rotting on the vine. Harvests of lettuce, broccoli, cauliflower, squash, citrus fruits, table grapes, sugar beets, carrots and cabbages are threatened as well. Total crop losses in Imperial County and nearby Riverside County have already reached $90 million. Says melon grower Ben Abatti, who has been farming in the area since 1956: "It is total disaster...