***Imagine farm workers doing back breaking labor in the sweltering sun, sprayed with pesticides and paid less than minimum wage.***
Been there. Done that in Arkansas with white migrant workers in 1962 and 1963. There is no minimum wage for agriculture work. Got paid 1 1/2 cents a pound for picking green beans.
After a rain the beans were heavy and I made $5.00 one day! Then it got hot, the beans shrivled and I never made more than $2.80 a day even though I picked the same ammount of beans.
Never got sprayed with pesticides as the beans were ready for harvest. As kids in New Mexico we did run behind the truck spraying DDT for mosquitos on the Animas River. Never bothered us.
"A misplaced New Mexican in the Ozarks. Conservative. Fundamentalist. Right wing gun owner."
You sure?