tobiaslee

Not on my flat earth you don't

Absolutely LOVED your piece. Didn't expect some of my favorite investigative journalism this year to come out of the world of food criticism to be honest, but it was so so great.

Do you have a sense at all for how significant the problem is beyond Tampa? I noticed you spoke to some farms outside the area like Border Springs, and I'm wondering if they gave you a sense how much restaurants in other parts of the country were doing at being honest about their sourcing.

Thanks for the reply. As a follow up, if you don't mind, how did you get into food criticism? I work in news now, but I'd be really interested in making the jump to reviews I think.

Not OP, but I have worked in the anti-trafficking space before. Chocolate produced in Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire, electronics (anything with tantalum or other conflict minerals in it), diamonds (you probably knew this one already), various parts of the apparel industry, which are immensely more difficult to root out because of a problem called labor brokerage. I can explain more if you want/feel free to PM me, but most of the industries where it's happening are not really surprising I think.

The thing that sucks so much is the tremendous amount of research it takes to make an "educated" decision on the matter. A tool that makes it a bit easier to quick reference is free2work.org and the "social" part of GoodGuide's ratings also do an okay job.