You can do WHAT with seaweed???
If farmworkers pick the food, shouldn’t they get a seat at the table?
Summary
Tonight at dinner, you are likely to eat something that was picked by a farmworker. This is back-breaking work, involving long hours in the hot sun. And yet farmworkers, many of whom are immigrants to the U.S., often do not have basic workplace protections like heat standards or overtime pay. “The cruel irony in this country is that the very people who nourish us often can’t afford to put food on their own table,” says [Diana Tellefson Torres](https://www.emersoncollective.com/persons/diana-tell...
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