Mother's Day Flowers

http://www.vice.com/read/the-human-cost-of-your-mothers-day-flowers

"The National Retail Federation estimates that this Mother’s Day weekend, Americans will purchase more than $2 billion worth of flowers. Almost 80 percent of those flowers come from Colombia, where impoverished mothers like Lorena toil long hours to produce tokens of affection for more fortunate mothers elsewhere. While the provenance of the peonies we buy last minute at gas stations, supermarkets, and corner store bodegas remains a mystery for most Americans, for the women that produce these bouquets the cut-flower industry is a harrowing reality, and Mother’s Day is a cruel joke."

From "The Human Cost of your Mother's Day Flowers" by Michael Zelenko

http://www.vice.com/read/the-human-cost-of-your-mothers-day-flowers