Jerry Herman, Coordinator, Southern Africa Program of American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), reports that prisons in the U.S. are purchasing peaches from South Africa. This is, in effect, use of U.S. public monies to support the South African canning industry, which also means U.S. peach growers and canning workers are displaced. The mailing includes a copy of a label for Pacific Seas brand YELLOW CLING DICED PEACHES IN LIGHT SYRUP that says "Product of the Republic of South Africa" and Packed for SINCO INCORPORATED in Belmont, MA (Massachusetts). The label was received in November 1984 from a prisoner at Greenhaven.
