Tag: farm workers

This Petersburgh, New York, organization fights racial injustice in the food system.

“Farmworkers have continued to work during this whole time, despite fears of contracting COVID-19 in the workplace, despite fears of getting heat stress while they’re at work, and now despite fears of the dangers that wildfire smoke brings.”

"While immigrant farm workers risk their lives working w/o sufficient protection during this dangerous time, this country is excluding them from federal relief packages and lobbying to lower their wages."

He tweets odes to America's small farmers, but his actions are tearing them apart.

As India’s agrarian crisis deepens, so too will the social unrest, which may force future elected officials to take action on the growing demands of India’s powerful rural populace.

Investigators have found that laborers on the farm’s coffee plantations were working under degrading conditions and living in substandard housing without sewerage or drinking water.

These farmworkers created an organic co-op that guarantees fair wages and healthy working conditions while preserving indigenous heritage.

"Peace, compassion and justice for those who have suffered, that's what the United States should stand for."

It's time to treat all farm workers with the respect due to the people who really are essential to our food security.