campaign research

Update - August 2008 - this page is currently being updated as we move forward with the Chipotle and Subway campaigns. Contact us if you're interested in joining SFA's research working group.

Welcome to SFA's research clearinghouse where you'll find key information on the Campaign for Fair Food. Also check out the Alliance for Fair Food for some great resources.

If you have a particular interest in research, you may want to join our research working group - contact us for more information.

Although the Taco Bell and McDonald's campaigns have come to a successful close, much of the information listed under those categories rings true for the rest of the industry as well as the ongoing campaign, regardless who its specific target happens to be at the moment.

• Taco Bell
• McDonald's
• Burger King
• Chipotle

Taco Bell

• Victory at Taco Bell - Details on the boycott-ending agreement with Yum Brands

• Frequently Asked Questions on the Taco Bell boycott
  

McDonald's

• Point-by-point comparison - The Taco Bell/Yum agreement vs. McDonald's SAFE initiative
  
  
• What we have learned - Unraveling the tangled web between McDonald's, SAFE, a public relations firm that specializes in "activist response management" and the Florida Fruit & Vegetable Association
  
  
• On foxes, henhouses, and social responsibility in the fast-food industry - The close ties between the Florida Fruit and Vegetable Association – McDonald's partner in SAFE – and a farm where workers were held in a "form of servitude" by their crewleader, who was later convicted in federal court.
  
  
• Ag-Mart, McDonald's and sweatshops in the fields - Explores the connection between McD's, an unruly Florida grower, and the pesticide contamination facing farmworkers.
  

• Critical analysis of "Economic Impact: Tomatoes in Florida, Report 1" - the McD's-commisioned "study" on farmworker wages and working conditions
  
  
• National student organizations respond to McDonald's "study" on farmworker poverty.
  
  
• Scholars statement on rights of farmworkers producing for McDonald's - Robert B. Reich, Former Secretary of Labor, et al.
  
  
• Alliance for Fair Food critique of McDonald's study

Burger King - more information coming soon!

• "The Secret Behind the Creepy King"

• "Burger King of Cool?"

• Burger King Wikipedia entry
  
  
• Burger King restaurant locator

• Investor Relations - inside info from the horse's mouth

Chipotle

• CIW letter to Chipotle - CIW asks Chipotle in Feb. 2006 to expand its "Food with Integrity" mantra to include the wages and working conditions of farmworkers in its tomato supply chain.
  
  
• Let the debate begin - Read Chipotle's arguments in defense of the conditions in its tomato supply chain and the CIW's answers.
  
  
• Food With Integrity - Chipotle's self-described "manifesto" on its mission to “revolutionize the way America grows and gathers its food” by “working back along the food chain.”
  
  
• Chipotle restaurant locator (click "find")

• Organics: Meaningful or Market Niche? (LiP Magazine, 5/06) - "There are often no major differences in living conditions or labor practices between organic and conventional farm operations in the US."