| Existing comment:
The labor of millions of people goes into growing, processing, transporting, preparing, serving, and delivering our nation's food. Without these food workers, life in the United States would grind to a halt. Yet many of these workers labor in oppressive conditions, earning poverty wages while risking pesticide poisoning, serious injury, sexual harassment, deportation, wage theft, and more. The health and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have only worsened the already higher rates of poverty, hunger, and health disparities among food workers. |