--- title: 'Food Chains': Eva Longoria and Eric Schlosser Behind Farmworkers Doc description: The Fast Food Nation author’s new flick will be narrated by Forest Whitaker canonical: https://time.com/3599468/food-chains-farm-eva-longoria-eric-schlosser/ author: Denver Nicks article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-11-21T15:08:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T02:16:44.599Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: 'Food Chains': Eva Longoria and Eric Schlosser Behind Farmworkers Doc og:description: The Fast Food Nation author’s new flick will be narrated by Forest Whitaker og:url: https://time.com/3599468/food-chains-farm-eva-longoria-eric-schlosser/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 'Food Chains': Eva Longoria and Eric Schlosser Behind Farmworkers Doc twitter:description: The Fast Food Nation author’s new flick will be narrated by Forest Whitaker twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # 'Food Chains' Doc Sheds Light on America's Farmworkers  by [Denver Nicks](/author/denver-nicks/)  ## Denver Nicks Nov 21, 2014 3:08 PM CUT  by [Denver Nicks](/author/denver-nicks/)  ## Denver Nicks Nov 21, 2014 3:08 PM CUT A new documentary about the farmworkers who pick America’s harvest was released Friday in selected markets. “Food Chains,” produced by actress Eva Longoria and Fast Food Nation author Eric Schlosser, primarily tells the story of a labor dispute between tomato pickers in Immokalle, Florida, and the Publix supermarket chain. That dispute is the origin of the Fair Food Program, a voluntary initiative to raise wages and working conditions for farmworkers. “What we bring with the Fair Food Program is not another model of corporate social responsibility, because the goal is not to make any corporation legit,” [says](http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/eva-longoria-and-eric-schlosser-take-on-fairness-for-farmworkers-in-food-chains/2014/11/20/5b18e888-6e80-11e4-ad12-3734c461eab6%5Fstory.html?hpid=z13 "undefined") farmworker and organizer Gerardo Chavez in the film. “The goal is to address human rights and labor rights that exist in the fields. The creation of the program comes directly from the participation of the workers in the program and the ideas of our community. That’s what we call worker-led social responsibility.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3599468/food-chains-farm-eva-longoria-eric-schlosser/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3599468/food-chains-farm-eva-longoria-eric-schlosser/"},"headline":"'Food Chains' Doc Sheds Light on America's Farmworkers","datePublished":"2014-11-21T15:08:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T02:16:44.599Z","description":"Forest Whitaker narrates documentary produced by Fast Food Nation author Eric Schlosser and actress Eva Longoria","url":"https://time.com/3599468/food-chains-farm-eva-longoria-eric-schlosser/","keywords":["Food"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Denver Nicks","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/denver-nicks/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3599468/food-chains-farm-eva-longoria-eric-schlosser/","name":"'Food Chains' Doc Sheds Light on America's Farmworkers"}}]}] ```