In light of these latest revelations, some historical context on Kroger's longstanding refusal to join the Fair Food Program is, perhaps, in order. Here is an extended excerpt from an exchange between the CIW's Julia Cruz, a farmworker herself and member of the Fair Food Program's worker-to-worker education team, and Kroger's CEO, Rodney McMullen, at the 2015 Kroger shareholder meeting in Cincinnati, Ohio. The question, and Mr. McMullen's answer, shed a stark light on last week's revelation of Kroger's relationship to the Moreno operation almost 8 years later :