"Part of Rabbi Rachel Kahn-Troster’s fight against modern-day slavery is professional.As a major goal of her work as director of North American Programs for the continent’s branch of the Rabbis for Human Rights (RHR) organization, where she coordinates a national educational and lobbying effort, she is responsible for raising consciousness of the issue. And part of her fight is personal. How she buys bananas. For years, when she went shopping at a Whole Foods supermarket near her home in northern New Jersey, she faced a dilemma. Should she buy bananas that came to market under Fair Trade supervision, indicating that they probably were not part of an agricultural process that included slave-like or sweatshop conditions? Or buy organic bananas.."

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By Steve Lipman from The Jewish Week, 6/19/12