Walmart has been at the center of the nation’s cheap food structure, forcing a globalization and industrialization that is grounded in a race to the bottom for labor and environmental standards. Yet an increasing number of food and farming nonprofits are relying on the Walmart Foundation to fund their programs. Walmart often uses philanthropic donations to push its expansion in urban areas, from which it has been shut out because of labor and environmental concerns. Walmart softens up the opposition with a veritable flood of donations.
Posted on: Sat, 20 Dec 2014 15:32:06 +0000
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