The AFL-CIO Now blog reminded readers this week that you can support the labor movement when shopping for your holiday meals. I found it interesting because I don’t usually look at food in this way.
As you prepare to head to the grocery store to pick up your Thanksgiving dinner ingredients, double check your shopping list to make sure your Turkey Day fixin’s are all union made in America. Check out some highlights from the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor’s resource site, Labor 411. Here are some of the best union-made Thanksgiving eats and tools from the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers (BCTGM), Machinists (IAM), United Steelworkers (USW) and United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW).
What follows is the list of union made items.
Appetizers
Kraft/Nabisco crackers—BCTGM
Nabisco(Mondelez) crackers—BCTGM
Keebler (Kellogg) crackers—BCTGM
Turkey
Boar’s Head—UFCW
Butterball—UFCW
Foster Poultry Farms—UFCW
Thumann’s—UFCW
Cookware/Cutlery
Cutco knife—USW
All-Clad cookware—USW
Side Dishes
Ocean Spray Whole Berry Cranberry Sauce—IAM
Birds Eye vegetables—UFCW
Bread
Pillsbury crescent rolls, frozen and bake rolls/breads—BCTGM
Pillsbury pie crusts—BCTGM
Stroehmann bakery products (for stuffing)—BCTGM
Dessert
Sara Lee pumpkin, apple pie—BCTGM
Mother’s Kitchen cheese cakes—BCTGM
Nabisco (Mondelez) cookies—BCTGM
Rich’s pies and cakes—BCTGM
Other
Quaker Oats (for apple crisp)—BCTGM
You can also search the Labor 411 site for other items like wine, beer, etc.
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An interesting perspective!
I like this approach but eat none of those brands because they are overprocessed, sodium laden, etc.
I buy as local and organic as is humanly possible. Nothing on that list would interest me, anyway. My homemade cranberry sauce beats the heck out of Oceanspray, anyway.