#Farming Friday 9: The Farm Worker

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Despite the movie on Cesar Chavez playing everywhere, discussions on the food system swirl around producers (local, organic, Big Ag) and consumers. About the farm worker laboring under difficult conditions , often forced to live in appalling situations, and with hardly way of making his/her voice heard; little is mentioned. Here is the story (one among many) of workers on blueberry farms being deprived of their true wages and denied the value of their work.

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