About a dozen students outraged over Grand Valley State University's continued business relationship with Taco Bell, a company who purchases tomatoes widely documented to be produced in exploitative conditions, have gone on a hunger strike to demonstrate their demands that the university immediately engage in a meaningful process to remove Taco Bell from campus (photos).
The Hunger Strike comes after a public meeting last Thursday at which the administration did not even attempt to debate conditions in South Florida, instead offering to make the issue one of popularity -- proposing a joint survey conducted by the administration and Students Against Sweatshops GVSU asking students if they want Taco Bell on campus. Students are disgusted by the suggestion that human rights could be the subject of a popularity contest.
Those who wish to support the students can participate in an email action that targets university administrators.
