Worst Pickup Line Ever: What’s in your Chipotle burrito?

Answer: Nothin’ right now, baby. You wanna be?

Oh. My bad. Turns out it’s not a pickup line, but a serious call to action. Color me embarrassed…

Chipotle swears they serve food with integrity, but in reality the Florida farmworkers who pick many of Chipotle’s tomatoes have one of the worst jobs in America.

And in a country where people actually make a living driving other people from one side of the mountains in Wyoming to another, with nothing but Toby Keith and Glenn Beck on the radio, that’s really sayin’ something.

These tomato-pickers suffer through sub-poverty wages, inhumane labor that leads to scores of medical problems, and exploitation that makes the grapepickers in Depression-era California seem taken care of by comparison.

…from American Rights at Work:

More than two dozen leading writers, organizers, filmmakers, and farmers have called on Chipotle to do the right thing. The list includes Eric Schlosser, writer and director of Fast Food Nation; Frances Moore Lappe, author of Diet for a Small Planet (one of the books I read before becoming a veggie lovin’ lady); and Robert Kenner, director of the new hard-hitting documentary Food, Inc.

The average farmworker puts in a 10 hour day in the scorching Florida sun and must pick two and a half TONS of produce a day to earn $50 – that’s only $10,000 per year.

Send this email to Chipotle and tell them you’re rather particular about what goes into your burrito. And if they don’t start treating their workers fairly, you’ll chimichanga somewhere else.

h/t Elizabeth

Tags: Chipotle, tomato pickers