"As we encounter the hottest summer days we have ever experienced, let us remember that it is not us working over 12 hours per day in endless waves of heat with no overtime pay. Nor are we tirelessly grasping fruits and vegetables from crop fields, only to provide for grocery store shelves that are selling them at higher rates. These are the experiences of migrant farmworkers, the most hardworking people I know."
~ Christian Laredo-Duran
"Migrant Farmworkers in the United States"
https://www.michigandaily.com/michigan-in-color/the-life-of-a-migrant-farmworker/
You can remember that your grandmother had above average empathy for the people who feed us because she got pulled out of school at the 8th grade when she would have liked to continue her studies instead of just providing manual labor for the family.
"I got called horse, because I worked so much. And that's not funny."
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