And now another tale well calculated to keep you in Suspense The fortune is there and they'll kill to get it Truck stop Written for suspense by Peter Fernandez Hey Maggie, where do I owe you for the coffee and drainage? I sent all you should know by now you've been stopping in here almost every night for months Just leave how much you think it is Sure, sure, I know, I just wanted to have a word with you Oh? Anything wrong? Wrong? Oh no, no, man, everything's right Right? That's gold, huh? Yeah, if you say so Well, it might as well clear off the counter Looks like he's company dead tonight, huh? What do you mean? Your boyfriend It's ten minutes after midnight that armored trucker His role's in about 12.15, huh? Yeah, that's right But how'd you know tonight was one of his regular stuff? Well, you're kidding, Maggie, with you all dolled up?  Maggie is a lucky guy You know what I'd do if I was him? Tell me, Benno I'd ask you to come along in that truck of his You and maybe a couple of hundred thousand bucks We'd have a time, wouldn't we?  Quarter after twelve The truck should be coming in now Yeah, where is it, Benno? It'll be coming every night for six weeks I've been casin' this It's the time's out, I swear Then where's the truck? Will you wait? Okay, okay, I don't hear from you for two years Ever since Juliette noticed An armored truck, job of all things An armored truck I tell you, if we start small It's something easy No, but you've got to have an armored truck Could you shut up? Now, just look Coming up the highway now The turn blinker's on That's it, sir That's two hundred thousand bucks minimum Sure, sure And two guards and a driver All behind bullet-proof glass And three-quarter inch heavy steel Are we going to get into an armored truck Like that, Benno? Would it can open that? Will you just watch? Just watch everything And I'll show you just how Two nights from tonight When they stop at that diner The next time We're going to get that truck Oh, where's the binoculars? Here Okay, the truck stopped Just keep watchin' Through them binoculars Maybe you'll see for yourself How we're going to do it I stiff That's a long hole From Greenville to here Maggie's coffee better be good And when hasn't it been? But when will I give her this Before you even order? A ring Uh-huh We're really going to ask her tonight What do you think I bought it today for? I don't want some other guy Trying to grab Maggie Before I can stake a claim Well, good luck, son She's quite a girl Do you want me to wait out here Until you ask her? Oh, no Come on in We're used to having you around In these stops You're part of the family Well, okay Hello, Maggie Hello, Frank Hi, honey Charlie, don't come behind this counter If the boss sees us now Oh, by midnight Old man Duncan's fast asleep What'd he be doing out here, huh? Give me a kiss Maggie, I've got something for you I hope you'll like it The store said that exchange it If you don't Something for... Hey, you've got a real romantic Look in your eyes, Charlie Maybe I do, Maggie Now, wait, wait, wait Let me give Frank his coffee And take Sim and soup out to him But, Maggie, I want to... That's okay We can wait, Maggie Oh, I'd rather do it this way, Frank I think maybe Charlie's going to ask me to marry him And this will give me a minute To think up my answer, you see Excuse me, Charlie Sure, honey Take your time I want you to give it As much thought as you need Would you like a danish With your coffee tonight, Frank? With my waistline No thanks, Maggie Okay Here's yours, Frank Knowing you were coming in Any minute I got Sim and his bullion Cubes ready in the cup here So I'll just pour the hot water over him I notice you're handshaking, Maggie Does the thought of getting married scare you? You kidding? Listen, I'm 23 years old, Charlie And I want to get married Maggie, does that mean you... That means give me a minute To bring Sim and his soup And then we can talk, okay? Okay, okay But will you hurry up, honey? There we are Anyway, soup's ready Boy, I think he'd get tired of this stuff He probably is by now He's been drinking bullion Ever since I met him years ago But a doctor once told him Beef bullion is the best thing in the world for him Honey, we gotta schedule Okay, I'm on my way Just hold on to that ring And don't change your mind Before I get back You see, Zo? Just like I said As she comes out of the diner Yeah, yeah I got her in the glasses She's carrying a cup of saucer, Edgy Yeah, I can see them in her hand All right Now, you watch a servant to the guard That's gotta stay in the back of the truck What good's that does? The guy's still behind him Steal walls The only way to get at him And get the doorsteater Blast out William He's using a settling torch right up to... What's that thing doing now?  She gets the guy to open the door Then we move in, huh?  Oh, I'm happy Tonight I'm very, very happy Oh, Charlie's proposed, huh? Well, it took the big boy long enough To get up to know Now he hasn't yet, Simmons But as soon as I go back in there He's gonna give me an engagement ring Well, then you go ahead, then, girl Don't wait for me to finish this soup You go on in there and accept the man That is if you want to Oh, I want to, all right I'll see you in a few minutes, Simmons Yeah, you better Maggie, Maggie Congratulations in advance There it is, Zo There it is Just like I said The door's open And the loot's sitting right in there So why don't we hit it tonight right now? But what are we waiting for? We're waiting till I say we're gonna hit I wanted you to see the whole setup Know just how and what minute we hit it Okay, so now I know So now I want to grab that door I'll grab it and it's good When, Ben, when? On their next regular run That won't be so long to wait We'll hit that truck two nights from tonight Oh, two whole days from now? I told you I've been planning this for six weeks And they ain't gonna have you loud set up Now we play this real safe The night after next is when?  They're clear now You see Man, business comes and goes Chances are it'll be empty by the time that baby pulls in I hope you're right Man, that other trucker's leaving now too All right, now just remember We don't start shooting unless we got it No, I know Just make sure you know I heard how you lost up that Zanesville job Eight years ago with your quick trigger All right, go smooth over here All right, I'm going in now And when you see us serving me my coffee And not until then you sneak in the back Through the kitchen I told you, I know Just remember Good luck, Ben Yeah, when I figured this setup We might not even need luck The kids want anything else? No, that'll be all, Maggie How much we owe you? Well, four soda pops, 40 cents Here's half a buck Keep the change Oh, thanks, Jimmy I'll see you Come on, fellas Hey, why don't you watch where you're going?    Charlie and me don't need money like that We'll work for what we get Here's your pie This peach Hey, some guy just came into the kitchen He never saw him before Oh, forget him, Maggie Hey, yeah, what do you want? I said, forget him, Maggie Just, uh, give me a clean-up this corner From them customers that just left, huh? Listen, if my boss comes here And finds some guy in the kitchen Your boss is home asleep and you'll know it Everything okay back there, Zell?  That's just set up, Maggie Now, you just stay behind that counter And do your work like usual What's going on? What are you up to anyway? What do you think, Maggie? It's a stick-up That's what it is A stick-up? Oh, come on, you're kidding Just look through that window, it's Zell You see what he's holding?  And just remember, Zell's got his gun on Your one wrong move and you're dead, Maggie There won't be no wedding or nothing Donk and my boss, he left orders and chased the stick-up He said just to give you the money What money? It allows you a few bucks You got in that cash register to keep it We're after the truck The truck? You mean Charlie's truck?     I thought you'd be real glad to see me, but... Is it because that guy's sitting there? What difference does it make Of a stranger sees us? We're official now It isn't that Well, what then?  Here's your coffee, Frank And the Danish Okay, now that I'm sitting, Maggie Will you tell me what's bothering you? You haven't changed your mind, have you? If there's some other guy... I can't tell you right now, Charlie I... I'll bring this to Simmons Simmons?  What did you say? I said, sit down What business is it of yours?  Just both of you, stay right where you are There's a guy in the kitchen, Frank He's covering us with a submachine gun Yeah, kid And if you look at my lap here I'm holding this pistol So as the guy in the truck can't see it What do you guys want?  I tried to stop him But they wouldn't... Bring that cup and saucer over here to me, Maggie I... I changed my mind I won't do it I'm warning you, Maggie Listen, Maggie What happens to us in that truck Is no concern of yours Do just what he says I don't need no help from you, Charlie Bring me the cup and saucer Okay, then Here Okay I'll just drop this into it There Charlie, I'm sorry I tried to make them change their minds Now take that out to the guy in the truck Just like usual And Maggie, remember this You say more than a couple of usual words to him And we ain't gonna wait to see what happens We blow these two guys' brains out Yeah, I won't say anything I shouldn't I promise to Okay, what are you waiting for?   Come on, make me You and your friends start shooting now And Simmons will know And you'll never get into that truck Well, come on Let's get it over with Maggie She went out to Simmons She's going through with it I told you She loves you She'll do what she's supposed to Charlie If we rush him, we might have a chance We wouldn't get through feet That guy in the kitchen at Mailish That's right Both of you I just keep sitting right there Like nothing's wrong There She's at the truck So now we just wait Simmons It's me, Maggie How are you, Maggie? Fine Here Wait a minute, Maggie Don't go yet Tell me first Have you set a date for the wedding yet? No, no I gotta get back inside What's the matter with you, Maggie?  I could be on that car She did what you wanted Now you can let her go Let her go Wait, a warrant of cops? She's in this all the way What are we supposed to do now? We wait just a little more That stuff I put in this cup works fast 30 seconds maybe But we gotta be sure We'll give it a minute You won't get far without money Nobody roadblocks What?   Did you tell him? No But he might know anyhow He just might What are you talking about? He's reached the back of the truck out there And he's swinging the door open Hey, grab him, Frank! Frank! Frank! Let's go! Listen to him, too He's out cold Are you all right, Maggie? Yeah, I'm just kind of shaky, I guess Simons got the other guy He's flashing a torch on him Maggie How could Simons have known? Did you warn him after all? Charlie, I was afraid to say anything to him I just brought him that cup of tea with a pill in it In how many places did he find out these guys were sticking his head? Wait a minute Tea? Maggie Did you say you bought Simons a cup of tea? Yeah Yeah, that's what I said And Simons expected us bullion as usual He hates tea Sure He wouldn't touch his stuff And he knew you wouldn't make a mistake like that, Maggie Venom told me he'd been watching this place And planning the robbery for months But in all that time, I guess he forgot to notice what I served Oh, Charlie Charlie, he ever found out What matters now, honey, is he didn't Frank, will you call the police? Yeah, sure We'll have to forget our schedule tonight At least till the cops make out their reports Listen, while we're waiting, let me get you fresh cups of coffee It must be cold by now Okay, if you feel up to it, Maggie Are you kidding? For a few minutes there, I was scared Really scared that I'd never have the pleasure of waiting on you ever again But two coffees coming right up Suspense You've been listening to Truck Stop Written for suspense by Peter Fernandez Tonight's story were Terry Keane as Maggie Larry Haynes as Benno Mandel Kramer as Zell Frank Butler as Charlie Dan Occo as Frank And Bob Reddick as Simons Listen again next week We return with The Girl in the Powder Blue Jag by Walter Black Another tale well calculated to keep you in Suspense


Welcome back to our channel. My name is Andrea with Food and Mentory Adventures in Food and I am here today with our monthly Aldi haul. Found a lot of great deals and I wanted to show them to you. I spent a little over $109 and I'm going to show you my frozen and refrigerated products first and then I will put that away and come back and show you all of the pantry items. So we will start over here. I got two of these garlic cheese flatbreads. Now this is something that I've only found at Aldi seasonally and I have picked these up before and Howard and I really like them. This would be great for a light lunch or for dinner with the side salad. You guys know that I have talked about these French toast sticks on my all these favorite videos and I'll make sure to link it in the description box above and also in the cards above in the description box but these are really really good. I make these in my air fryer and they are a $1.99 a box and you get 20 French toast sticks. This is something new, a seasonal item. I think these were $4.99 a box or $3.99 a box. You get six little mini pies. Now my husband likes apple pie and I like cherry pie. You get six each so I'm excited to try those. This is also something that is new. They have three different flavors but I got this one. It is a pasta sauce starter and basically it's a like a cheese mix and the instructions. Let me find them for you right here. It says to cook your pasta. Put the sauce starter in mix in a cup of the pasta water and then toss and then toss excuse me. So they had this one and then they also had two others. I think one of them was a sun-dried tomato and then there was one other but I can't remember what it was. I wanted to try out their cheesy breadsticks and their pizza. I know a lot of people have hauled these before. I have never tried their take and bake anything breadsticks or pizza. So this is a medium meat pizza. My husband really likes meat. You get sausage, pepperoni, Philly cheesesteak, bacon and four cheeses. This is a medium pizza and it was about five bucks and then I think these cheesesteaks were also five bucks as well and it's a pretty large size package. We love their steak pie so I got a package of those. They were a $1.59 and then I also needed some eggs. I just got one container. They were $1.9 because I plan on going to Sam's or Costco and getting some more eggs. So I just needed some to tie this tie us over. I also grabbed a Caesar salad kit and a garden salad kit. I plan on having taco salads sometime this week and so grabbed some garden salad and then I plan on having some pasta or something like that and I just wanted Caesar salad with it. I grabbed some of these grilled chicken breast strips. Now I've seen them in the refrigerated section. I don't know if they don't sell them anymore or they were just out but I found these in the frozen section and they were less than $5 and you get a pound and a half basically of their grilled chicken breast strips and they're fully cooked. I found that these come in handy when I'm making a quick meal like Alfredo or something like that. It's so easy just to grab some and throw them in the pasta. So I grabbed those and then and all the time I have shopped at Aldi I have never ever found any meat for half price. This is 80-20 and you get two and a half pounds and it was half off 11 11 11 so it was five bucks and some change so I plan on divvying this up and having it for meals probably until like one and a half pound packages or 1.25 whatever. I'm gonna divvy that up and then my husband really likes their lemonade and it was on sale for $1.29. I think it was 20 cents off so I grabbed him a bottle of that and then I have recently discovered their chicken patties and so I thought their strips might be good too. I was really impressed with them so I'm plan on cooking these up in the air fryer for our dinners and by the way our what's for dinner videos come out on Tuesday every single Tuesday. I want to check out some of those and then my husband and I both love Brussels sprouts so I grabbed some Brussels sprouts. We usually buy these pre-shredded so I'm gonna try to shred these for us and stir fry them up in some bacon or something like that. I also was looking in their fresh meat section for their tenderloins they did not have any and I discovered that they sell them in the frozen section which I did not know and so it was actually a better deal in our frozen section. You get 2.8 ounces, 2 pounds 8 ounces, excuse me, of their boneless, skinless tenderloins for 5.45 so I thought that was a really good deal. I also grabbed a package of their mushrooms. I think they were $1.29 and then I grabbed two slices of sliced cheese. I got the sharp cheddar and then also the colby jack for sandwiches, hamburgers, things like that $1.79. Okay so let me put this away and then I will come back and show you all of the pantry items that I picked up. Okay so let me jump in with the pantry stuff. I'll start right over here. My husband really likes cashews so I got him this container. It was on sale for 11 something and it's 30 ounces whole cashews. I did, he normally gets these from Sam's and I did look on the app while I was at Aldi and at Sam's Club you get 33 ounces for 13 something so it's actually cheaper per ounce at Aldi so like I said I got him a container and I got him sea salt but they also had unsalted. I also grabbed two containers of chicken broth for recipes that I plan on making. I typically use this chicken broth for a wonton soup that we really like and then I just grabbed some more canned goods so Aldi was pretty much back to normal meaning it was fully stocked. The only thing that I could not find that I really wanted were the candles so they did not have the summer candles that were advertised and they didn't have them there but I did get two cans of black beans because that's a staple for us. We'll eat beans and rice and a pinch not a problem for us and then I always get stewed tomatoes, diced tomatoes and green beans. All of the vegetables and canned tomatoes were either 45 to 45 cents or 49 cents so I got four cans of green beans, four cans of diced tomatoes, four cans of stewed tomatoes and two cans of black beans because I already have black beans in my pantry. I also grabbed two packages of brown gravy mix. Those were 29 cents each. I just like to keep them on hand because I do use those for recipes and then I just grabbed a small container of the real bacon bits. It's fully cooked ready to serve bacon and I got this for some recipes that I have coming up and I plan on getting a bigger container when I go to Sam's so I just got that small thing and then I always like to try store brand sugar cookies. I like to make sugar cookies, homemade sugar cookies sometimes too but I also like the packaged cookies and I've never tried their sugar cookie mix so wanted to try it and then I got two avocados for my husband. He likes avocados on pretty much everything but when we have the beans and rice that I was telling you about he really likes to have avocados with that so I grabbed him that and I also grabbed him some cookie thins. He likes crunchy cookies and he likes coconut and I have bought these for him before and he really liked them so I just grabbed another bag for him and then I can't remember if I've ever tried their knockoff cheez-its but I've tried their other crackers and they were one of my favorites too on my video and I've been craving these cheese crackers so I just decided to give them a try. I hope they taste very similar to cheez-its and then during my last Aldi haul they found I found their lemon pound cake mix and I made that recently and showed it on one of my what's for dinner videos and it's really good. I'm not I'm not a huge pound cake person my husband does like it so when I saw this regular pound cake mix I decided to give it a try so I was excited about that and then every time I go to Aldi I always get the jazz and rice. This was 5.15 we eat a lot of rice and so I just like to have it I don't want to run out of it when the pandemic first started I actually did almost run out of rice and then I couldn't find it anywhere and so I just like to have it on hand now and then I personally love Fritos how it's not a big fan but I just like to snack on Fritos and I don't think I've tried the Clancy brand of Fritos so I wanted to give them a try and these are the big dippers and I have some dips that I plan on making so I needed some of those and then the last thing that I picked up was this coconut spray I have some grape seed spray and I'm almost out of it and this was I think 2.99 I don't know that I've ever seen it there at Aldi and they also had an avocado spray as well so this is it this is everything that I picked up for my monthly Aldi haul I hope you guys enjoyed this video if you did please make sure to give us a thumbs up and if you have not subscribed to our channel I certainly hope you'll do so thanks so much for watching and we'll see you next time


Tomatoes in Italy, the social cost of production. Tomatoes are a staple ingredient in many homes across Europe, but the story of how they reach your plate may surprise you. This is a dark story of the invisible people who pick our tomatoes in Italy, but the story parallels many of the other fruits and vegetables we love and eat today, and many of the countries that proudly grow them. The story opens with a rather cheap and affordable tomato sauce tin sitting on a supermarket shelf. It took kilos of tomatoes to make it, countless hands to harvest and process it, and yet the final product is very cheap. In some cases costing even less than a euro. But how is that possible? The problem with cheap tomatoes. In Italy, tomatoes and tomato sauces are cheap because the retailers buy them for a very cheap price from farmers, and or the companies that process the tomatoes and package them. They're cheap because retailers have most of the negotiating power, and very often they get to decide their own buying price. Some retailers, for example, buy their products from reverse auctions. First, retailers launch an auction for a stock of products, let's say two tons of tomatoes. Then, every farmer or supplier who is interested in selling two tons of tomatoes to the retailer will try to pitch the cheapest selling price. It's basically a battle for who gets paid the least. The producer who manages to pitch the cheapest price wins. But often there are middlemen, like packages and processors who buy raw material from tomato producers and sell it to retailers. They have to pay for transportation, processing and packaging of tomatoes, but they know that the retailers will only pay a cheap price for their goods, so they also need to buy the raw material for cheap to be able to make some profit. What's left at the beginning of this chain is the tomato farmer. With the downward pressure on prices just described, you can conclude yourself that farmers don't make much money. However, they need to keep everything running. The raw materials, the land, the machinery, the labor, all to be paid for. Bringing together all of these costs, they need to ensure that they can still make a living. Oxfam has analyzed the policies of some of the major supermarket chains in Europe and in the US, finding that supermarkets retain an increasing share of the price paid by consumers, up to 50% in some cases. While the share for workers and producers is often less than 5%. So how can farmers survive? There are two ways of making tomato production so inexpensive that even cheap supermarket prices wouldn't make farmers broke. The first one is to use machines to perform labor-intensive tasks, such as harvesting. A machine is still a cost to the producer, but it works significantly faster than people. You don't need to pay salary for its work and you need just a few people to operate it. For these reasons, today much of the tomato harvest is mechanized and hand picking is now comparatively marginal. However, the need for hand pickers also depends on weather conditions. So their work tends to vary season to season. If it rains, for example, machines can't enter the fields and it's necessary to harvest by hand. Different organizations claim that hand-picking accounts for different amounts of the overall tomato harvest, but we would be safe to say that it accounts for roughly 15% of the harvest. The Tall and Invisible Workers Here's where our story gets darker. The second way of maintaining low prices and stable farm income, even when humans are at work, comes at a serious cost to farm workers. Farm laborers often have their fundamental rights neglected. Work in 12-hour shifts without the contract and without the guarantee that they will be paid a minimum wage or that they will be paid at all. But who is willing to take this job or rather to endure this form of modern slavery? As FAO reports, the agriculture sector currently ranks fourth most affected by modern slavery behind fishing, construction and manufacturing. Agriculture on its own accounts for 2 million people affected by modern slavery worldwide, among which migrants represent the most vulnerable group. Italian Caporalato, the gang masters. In Italy, the Caporalato is the illegal form of workforce recruitment that makes cheap labor possible. The Caporali are middlemen who find farm laborers and manage their relationship with farm managers. Often receiving bribes from both sides. In English, they're sometimes called team leaders or gang masters, as they are in charge of the whole recruitment process, international trafficking and logistics of the lives of the laborers. These include housing, full-fledged slums, food, transport to and from the fields and payments. The Caporali decide arbitrarily who gets to work and who doesn't, who gets paid and who doesn't, but also when and how much. This phenomenon has both industrial aspects and aspects of a global society, claims Diletta Bellotti, human rights advocate and expert in migration and human rights. These people living nothingness, poverty, as agricultural laborers lived a century ago, but they're recruited through targeted online ads, asking them, do you want to earn 30 euros a day? Come to Italy. But Caporalato was born to help solve an issue. Without them, it would be very hard for Italian farmers to find enough people to work in their fields. It is in all effects a mafia activity Bellotti did. And as other mafia activities, it was born to fill an institutional void. Many of the people who hoped to move to Italy to find a better future and to other European countries as similar forms of illegal recruitment happen also in countries such as Spain and the UK, get stuck in the slums without a way to leave them. In Italy, for example, to get a residence permit, you need to provide proof of a job contract and a rent contract.  And so you remain stuck in a limbo of legal, social and moral invisibility. In the slums, laborers die of pneumonia because they refuse to go to the hospital. Women perform homemade abortions that can often lead to complications and even death. They avoid the hospital because they fear being sent back to their home countries. As a trafficked farm worker, you wouldn't be able to interact with the communities outside of your slum. You can't, because you need to be in the slums to be able to work. You're like completely on the Caporale to bring you to the fields. You can't ask him or her to come pick you up at will from your own home. And in any case, you most likely wouldn't even have the money to afford your own housing. Is it possible to have a more ethical tomato? In 2016, the Italian government introduced a law making Caporalato illegal and began an investigation on this phenomenon in 2018. A new law against reverse auctions was approved by the parliament in 2019. In the UK, the Gangmasters and Labor Abuse Authority was formed in 2005, which has been strengthened by the Modern Slavery Act introduced in 2015 to investigate forced or compulsory labor and human trafficking offenses. A European directive addressing these issues was also approved in 2019 and was supposed to be implemented by all EU countries by May 2021. These are all fundamental steps, but they're not enough in themselves to solve the situation. The introduction of these laws in both Italy and the UK hasn't led to guaranteed human rights for all farm workers. Unfortunately, the introduction of a law doesn't automatically mean that the law will be properly and consistently applied. Realistic changes for producers, retailers and consumers. So is there anything we can do to solve this situation? Some people claim that, where it's possible and convenient, the only alternative to the Caporali seems to be mechanization. But it's not uncommon for people who operate the machines to be recruited by the Caporali too. There are some solutions suggested by journalistic and institutional reports, academics, human rights advocates and laborers themselves to fight trafficked labor. Transparent packaging labels. At the moment, it's compulsory to have some basic information on labels, including ingredients, nutritional values and expiry dates. However, product chains could be made more transparent if other information had to be presented on food packaging labels. The first is origin, not only states but also region and province. This would make it easier for people to understand which products they should buy for both environmental and traceability reasons, allowing them to investigate which kind of practices are employed at the origin of the products. A register of suppliers. All of the suppliers that were involved in the making of that product. The name of the company responsible for transport. The food transport sector is among those most prone to infiltration by organized crime. Making it more transparent would push distributors and producers to employ people who are not involved in illegal business of any kind. Number of workers in the field and number of cultivated hectares. A quick cross-check between these numbers would allow authorities to find out immediately whether they should be suspicious of any undeclared work. Transparent price. A breakdown of the price into percentages clearly showing how the price is distributed to pay each entity in the chain. Distributors, processing companies, logistics and transport companies, producers and raw material. It's a lot of stuff to put on a tomato package, but we could come up with creative ways to make it accessible online. For example, using QR codes or links that allow people to view the following information on producers and distributors websites. Subsidies to fair producers. Governments could give subsidies to companies that commit not to resort to illegal forms of hiring and managing the workforce. Citizen-led initiatives. Vivere senza supermercato is an Italian initiative started by a group of friends who decided that they wanted to create an easier way for consumers to be more ethically responsible. The initiative created a map on which they pinned down all the retailers that sell local and ethical products around the country. Using or creating tools of this kind could drive a significant amount of consumers away from illegal products. Spending more if possible. Trying to help as consumers could also be less cheap. Caporalato free products rarely make it into large-scale distribution and even when they do, they are more expensive. However, if you're aware of this issue and you can afford to pay a bit more, this could be a big help to producers who are trying to do the right thing. Using our voices. These issues will be solved mainly through politics. But for politics to move, we need to show that this is a need of ours at a national and international level. Looking out for petitions and using our voices to spread awareness on this issue is going to be crucial to ensure that politicians know that there's public backing to solve this situation. I hope that if we all speak and make our friends and families aware of this issue, hold our governments accountable and do what's in our power as consumers, these articles soon won't be timely anymore. The story will hit its resolution and tomatoes will stop reminding me of blood. Thank you for listening to this episode of our Food Unfolded audio articles. Has listening to this article given you a new perspective? Let us know on social media linked in the description box. This article was written and read by me, Silvia Lazaris, originally posted on foodunfolded.com. Food Unfolded explores the stories behind the food on our plate, reconnecting us to the origins and sustainability of our food, co-funded by the EU and powered by EIT Food.