Whole Foods Will Stop Using Prison Labor In Response To Public Pressure

Source: www.usuncut.com | Original Post Date: September 30, 2015 –

Whole Foods has announced it will stop using their prison labor program after multiple protests around the country and a barrage of negative media coverage from national news outlets.

The company has promised to remove all artisan cheese and fish products previously produced as part of a Colorado inmate labor program by April 2016.

Michael Silverman, a Whole Foods spokesman, said they had originally sourced the products as a way to “help people get back on their feet and eventually become contributing members of society.”

But recent media scrutiny and protests in cities such as Houston, San Francisco, and St. Paul  has forced the company to end the practice because of the negative publicity.