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Got food?
Farmworker Awareness Week is a chance to recognize the people whose labor means we can eat |
Fawn Pattison |
31 Mar 2008 |
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| This is Farmworker Awareness Week, a time to support the millions of farmworkers whose labor puts food on every American table, and who work and live in some of the worst environmental conditions in our nation. It's estimated that 2 to 3 million farmworkers plant, tend, and harvest American crops every year. Many farmworkers in the U.S. are migrants who move from place to place following the harvest. Where I live, in North Carolina, migrant farmworkers are the ma ... |
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