[throwaway292893]

No, the full blame goes to the near slave farms exploiting these people.

Raise the prices if you have to and tell the consumers to shove it. Chipotle just did this, farms can do it.

If you can't survive without slave labor don't survive at all.

[dehrmann]

Chipotle is big; they can do this. Most of their costs are also in store labor and rent, not food. If you're a small farmer, the distributor will pay you $x regardless of how you produce it. There's no market for strawberries picked by well-paid workers, so they don't care.

What you're saying only works if you're Driscoll's and tell farmers to pay workers more or enough consumers demand it, but I just don't see much demand for this. The most we've seen is Fairtrade chocolate, coffee, etc., but there's only limited demand for it.