farmworkers
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Harvesting change: Dispatches from a TEDx gathering on farmworkers [VIDEO]
Last week's TEDx conference brought together some of the sharpest, most creative minds to address the problem of farm labor. See the highlights here.
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Water for crops, but farmworkers go thirsty
The water in California's Central Valley is so contaminated with nitrates from fertilizer runoff that the U.N. has placed it on a global list of places with "social problems linked to a lack of access to clean water" alongside Bangladesh, Uruguay, and Namibia.
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Field of broken dreams
New labor laws could protect children as young as 12 from working, and even dying, in dangerous jobs on industrial farms. But do they go far enough?
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Hope: the care and feeding of
Everywhere, along with nightmares and despair, are victories and emerging possibilities.
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Sea-urchin fishing, crab tacos, and the delicious rewards of hard work [VIDEO]
Why hand-picking your catch on a fishing trip is worth the extra effort, and what 20 years picking strawberries can teach you about empowerment.
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Jerry Brown 2.0: friend or foe of farmworkers?
This week Jerry Brown vetoed the Fair Treatment for Farm Workers Act, which would have improved working conditions for California farmworkers.
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How the meat industry turned abuse into a business model
As a long-time student of the meat industry, I read Ted Genoways' extraordinary article on conditions at the "head table" of a factory-scale pig-processing plant with delight. As a human being, my reaction was revulsion.
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Is the 'Clean 15' just as toxic as the 'Dirty Dozen'?
Is the Environmental Working Group's Clean 15 list of low-pesticide produce as toxic as its Dirty Dozen? For farm workers, the answer is often yes.
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The indignity of industrial tomatoes
Tasteless, indestructible, and picked by literal slaves, tomatoes have become a national shame, writes Barry Estabrook.