30.3.10

Got Food? Thank A Farmworker!


So this week just happens to be National Farmworker Awareness Week. And considering what little awareness we normally have in regard to those who provide us with our food, the attention that such a campaign should draw towards issues of farmworkers' rights seems necessary. Every day in the United States, farmworkers face grueling physical conditions, insufficient wages and a lower standard of living, all to perform one of the
simplest and most sacred tasks of humanity: to sow and to harvest the glorious fruits and vegetables that feed us all. Yet still, we take this precious work for granted too often. So this week, and every day, take some time to pay attention to where your food comes from, and try to consider the rights of the workers who provide that great gift to you.





factsheets provided by the NC Farmworkers Insitute

1 comment:

  1. how many folks know where their dinner came from? or who grew their breakfast?

    a philosophy of agriculture, particularly in the West, has been forgotten, omitted, and depreciated.

    food not bombs!

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