Migrant workers are the backbone of our food system, why don’t we treat them better?

Myself, like many other Americans, never think twice about where my food comes from, how it is grown, or whom harvests it. This was true for me before I enrolled in Environment 385, and throughout much of the global pandemic, COVID-19. It was not until I read an article from The Fern that I fully contextualized how inner-connected politics and the food system really is and how complex the process was from sprout to table.

After reading the article Migrant farmworkers feed America, and they’re at a high risk for a coronavirus outbreak, I was overcome with emotion. With over 2.7 million farmers in the United States, undocumented workers make up 70%. I learned that every single day, millions of people are subjected to long hours in the blistering heat, live in horrible conditions, and lack basic quality healthcare. With the growing burden of COVID-19, migrant workers are disproportionately at risk of becoming inflected and exposing others to a virus that has already claimed thousands of lives in the United States alone. We rely on them to grow our food, tend our crops, and entrust them to feed and keep us healthy, yet we do little in return.

"Migrant workers harvest sweet potatoes (BELOW) and weed rows of tobacco (ABOVE) in eastern North Carolina. Often, pickers are paid by the bin instead of by the hour" - Brain Barth

“Migrant workers harvest sweet potatoes (BELOW) and weed rows of tobacco (ABOVE) in eastern North Carolina. Often, pickers are paid by the bin instead of by the hour” – Brain Barth

Gross and Honig highlight reasonable pleas on how to make life better for the undocumented workers. But, why do they go ignored? Why do things never seem to change? One thing that has been made clear is that the power and safety is still held within the in-group and no one wants to share the spoils with the out-group. Everyone should be afforded the same rights on American soil, especially if they are providing such an essential service.

References

Migrant farmworkers feed America, and they’re at high risk for a coronavirus outbreak

Photo: https://modernfarmer.com/2017/02/migrant-farm-workers-the-high-cost-of-cheap-labor/

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