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Sunday, March 29, 2020

So this was worth listening to a second time...


"In this episode, to understand how the coronavirus is affecting and might affect our food, we talk to an economist, a farmer, and, of course, the people who really make farms go — the farmworkers."

https://www.npr.org/2020/03/25/821593542/episode-984-food-and-farmworkers

"Recent interviews with California farmworkers conducted by Líderes Campesinas, reveal that although considered 'essential' to the U.S. economy, they are also the most vulnerable link in our nation’s food supply chain...In the midst of National Farm Workers Awareness Week and the advent of Cesar Chavez Day, let us commit to focusing on the special needs of those that continue to put food on our tables..."

~ Irene de Barraicua, Líderes Campesinas

https://pasoroblesdailynews.com/letter-to-the-editor-farmworkers-are-essential-yet-vulnerable/106464/

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