2012 - %3, March  How Coca-Cola Squeezes Workers in Italy's
Orange Groves  | Fri Mar. 2, 2012 12:15 PM GMT  When I think of
southern Italy, a kind of mental postcard comes to mind: a table
laden with seafood, pasta, and wine, with Homer's "wine-dark
sea" sparkling in the sun-drenched background.    The reality,
of course, is much more complicated. The food and sights can be
glorious, but amid the region's base of small farms there exist
industrialized, plantation-scale operations. And scale aside,
working conditions on the region's farms are hardly idyllic.
Last year, the UK-based Ecologist published a blistering exposé
of working conditions in the region's tomato fields, which
produce for the nation's vast canned-tomato export industry.
Workers, mainly migrants from Africa, live in slave-like
conditions, with meager pay and awful housing. As is too often
the case in the United States, people who spend their time
harvesting food live in dire poverty, often having to rely on
charity for enough to eat.  Now the