Read the article. Why is the treatment of farmworkers important to us in the United States? Why does it matter to us as consumers? If you can, please make a connection to Cesar Chavez video or "Harvest of Shame" video. Please respond and give evidence from the text to support you conclusion. Please respond to at least two other student entries.
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Ryan
3/3/2015 05:33:11 am
I think that the treatment of farm workers are important to people because those are the people who pick our food, grow it etc. Also without them we really wouldn't have as much food with out their hard work. Another reason is because it is not fair for them to work and pick crops and we don't. They are also not given as much money as they deserve. This matters to us consumer because of course without their help we wouldn't be able to eat all of the delicious fruits and vegetables without them. Just like in the video it states that some stores buy food from the farms in Mexico because it cost less. And in the article it also states that that Wal-Mart is buying crops from mexico and that some believe it is only because it cost less money. Although Wal-Mart is trying to help. But it might not be helping the workers and it might not make a big change.
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Wolfvoelker6789
3/3/2015 05:51:35 am
I agree with ye Ryan. Without the farmers we could not have as lovely food! The conditions of these hard working farmers is important!
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Cara
3/3/2015 06:21:02 am
I agree Ryan. The workers deserve better work conditions. Each worker works hard so we can have food to eat! But I don't really think Wal-Mart is trying to help. They buy from farms that sell their crops in the lowest price. I think Wal-Mart cares only about the money.
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Ashley
3/3/2015 07:46:07 am
I agree with you Ryan because without the farm workers the farm owner would have sold no crops and we would all be starving. So I think the farm owners should be really thankful for the farm workers. Without them they wouldn't have sold all those fruits and veggies to markets, so we can buy them.
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Wolfvoelker6789
3/3/2015 05:48:21 am
I think that the treatment of Mexican farmers is important because if the farmers are treated poorly they won't be in the best conditions the next time they work. If they are in poor condition when they work they won't be able to put in their best effort. If they can't work well are food could end up being badly prepared and the farmer will also probably get paid less so it will be a problem for farmer and consumer. Although Wal-mart is trying to help they do not seem to help the problem they are also probably not putting in their best effort either because most companies only care about money.
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Ryan
3/3/2015 06:02:16 am
I agree Wolf. If the workers are not treated well then they would do a poor job when they work. So they would not get much money and we would have food that turned to be bad.
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Benicio Curiel
3/3/2015 07:28:14 am
I agree with ye Wolf because the farmers might not put in there best effort the next time they work so, we could have unsanitary food or "poorly put together" food.
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alex
3/3/2015 12:48:18 pm
I agree with you Wolf . I also did not even have the slightest thought about what you said about if they have poor conditions one day they will not be able to put their full effort in working because about what happened the day before. Good job on that thought. I think Wal-mart shold do more suprise interviews instaed of regualar ones so they can really see what is happening in those farms. As I put in my article What is more impotant the health of a person or money.I also think the ranchers are being to greedy. I think this because they dont want to give workers a fair of money instead keep it to thesmselves
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Wolfvoelker6789
5/12/2015 09:27:50 am
Heh, thanks Alex also I agree with you.
Sofia
3/3/2015 06:01:13 am
The treatment of the farm workers is important because if the people who own the farm don't treat them fairly, the farm workers might stop working as hard as they do now. The effect of that is we don't get very good food. It matters to us as consumers because if you go to a five star restaurant you want the food to be good. I want all of the food I eat to be good. The farmers should get more shade and the farmers that own the farm should tell the truth all of the time because lying in the wrong thing to do
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Ryan
3/3/2015 06:04:31 am
I agree Sofia. If they are not treated fairly then they can go on strike. Just like what happened in the Cesar Chavez video when all the workers went on strike because it wasn't fair for them.
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Cara
3/3/2015 06:17:42 am
I agree Sofia. The farm workers work hard to earn money. They put in their best efforts. If the farmers give the workers better work conditions, the workers would not have to suffer as much as they did before.
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Natasha
3/3/2015 06:54:09 am
I agree with you, Sofia. I would want all the food that I eat to be good too. It would be bad if all we ate was bad food. I wonder if the farmworkers are going to organize another strike.
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Cara
3/3/2015 06:09:05 am
I think that the treatment is important because the workers work hard day and night. I think it's not fair that they have to work day and night and the companies just buy them. Although the farmers still work if we treat them badly, they might not put their best effort in their work. It matters to me, because they work hard so we can eat! If the workers weren't there we wouldn't have any food to eat! It seems like Wal-Mart doesn't care because they buy the lowest prices. That is why the workers don't get payed well. I can make a connection from the video because both in the Central Valley and Mexico's farm owners don't treat they're workers well. They both have tried to improve the work conditions and it's alot better. Even if Wal-Mart doesn's care, I still care because everyone should be treated the same. The workers are puttting in they're best effort to earn enough money for their family to eat! We are lucky that we have food and that the workers pick crops for us.
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Cara (continue^)
3/3/2015 06:14:07 am
In the text it said, "They said the company buys from farms with the lowest prices." It also says, "Many of the farms in Mexico treat their workers badly."
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Ashley
3/3/2015 07:41:15 am
I agree with you Cara because the workers work hard and sleep in run down houses and sleep in not so comfortable places. Some people also died because of heat. But the farm owners slept in comfortable beds and had shade when it is really hot.
Connie
3/3/2015 09:46:44 am
I agree with you, Cara. It's unfair that the workers are treated poorly when they're working so hard to help the people of the United States have food to eat. At least, the farm workers have conditions that are a lot better than before. Without these busy workers, the United States might not even have enough food.
Sasha
3/3/2015 06:36:18 am
I agree with you cara because they can't just be paid minimum wage they deserve so much better
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nola
3/3/2015 07:15:58 am
"I think that the treatment is important because the workers work hard day and night." When you say this I think wow I don't wan't to work that late, I mean who does. This is why this article is important. Also when you say " I can make a connection from the video because both in the Central Valley and Mexico's farm owners don't treat they're workers well. They both have tried to improve the work conditions and it's a lot better." I like it. I think that, that is good information. I also like how you added more at the end.
julian (has a fever)
3/3/2015 06:21:06 am
i believe that the treatment of the farmworkers is important to us people in the united states because without the work of the farm workers, we wouldn't have fruit and vegetables. the farm workers need to be treated properly including shade and water.
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Sasha
3/3/2015 06:35:18 am
I agree with you Julian because they only get paid minimum wage wich isn't good. An pd feel better
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Natasha
3/3/2015 06:49:14 am
I agree with you, Julian. It is very important for the workers to get shaade and water, so then they won't be as hot. Our vegetables and fruit are also very important to us because without fruit and vegetables, we wouldn't be as healthy as we are now.
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Benicio Curiel
3/3/2015 07:30:30 am
I agree with you Julian because the workers need more food and shade.
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Sasha
3/3/2015 06:32:43 am
I think that the treatment if farm workers are important because those people that are harvesting work day and night with Busch a low pay. These Mexicans deserve better. Our world would be so much safer and we would have equality with the Mexicans. Now days they get paid minimum wage. My first grade teacher is Mexican so since she was six she got 10 cents an hour for harvesting grapes. She told us when she went home she would have about 10-12 blisters and mabye 30 thorn cuts. Once she even cut her finger with the special gardening scissor which took her about three months to recover. So this is how it feels to be harvesting. It is not fair to be paid so little for this hard job. I feel bad for them because then we eat those fruits and vegetables that they harvested for us. It's almost like their working for the more lucky kids. In the video we watched earlier a 18 year old lady that was preagnet died while the harvesting. The sun was shining 105' degrees Fahrenheit she died because of the humidity. Which was not her fault. Plus she had a baby in her stomach. And this happened in 2007/2008. These years dint write 1960's. Also when these children and young adults are working for stores that sell produce such as Walmart. Just bringing aware they need better homes bathroom including toilets and jobs. There almost slaved. -I'm just saying [email protected] BYE!!!!!!
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Natasha
3/3/2015 06:46:24 am
The treatment of farm workers is important to us in the United States because they work hard and suffer from the heat just so we could have food on our plates. In the " Harvest of Shame" video, one worker says, " Most of us work ont the fields not because we want to, but because we have to." Another worker was saying that it isn't fair at all how they are doing very hard work, and get a low payment at the end of the day. I think that it matters to us as consumers because we don't find it fair that all these awesome workers are being treated very badly. I don't know about anyone else, but I wouldn't want to support Wal-Mart or any other companies if the workers are not being treated fairly. In the text it says , " It is risky for Wal-Mart to only think about cost, experts said. Many U.S. customers want their food to come from farms that treat workers fairly. They could turn against Wal-Mart if they think it does not care about the farm workers. They might shop elsewhere, experts said."
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nola
3/3/2015 07:26:26 am
Natasha I agree with you to every little last bit. I like your first sentence the most though. When you say that they struggle and suffer from heat that is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO true because that girl who was pregnet at age 15, and she died I just fall,my heart drops. I jusst am so mad at whoever is the owner of the farm that she worked on. I wish that the workers and the owners could trade places, like at the High School the boys were cheerleaders and the girls played football. Over all I think that your response was GREAT!!!!!!
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Mrs. Chenu
3/5/2015 11:37:23 am
Natasha-
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nola
3/3/2015 07:06:21 am
"The houses the workers live in are often rundown. Some do not even have a real bathroom. Workers usually live on or near the farms. Their housing is provided by the farm owners." This is part of the article that i thought was very important, because the farm workers are doing this because they don't exactly have a choice. I think that this is an important part of the article, because it tells us that the Mexican farmers are not doing well, they don't have money. they get paid and treated, very badly and poorly. This means that the food on are plates have been picked and sold. The farmers need and want equality."Wal-Mart also announced it would try to make things better. Experts said Wal-Mart is an important company. It buys more fruits and vegetables from Mexico than any other U.S. company." This is what the article says about Wal-Mart. I think that this is extraordinarily important to know about, and think about because, why would Wal-Mart want to buy food from the farms that have the worst quality and rules. I agree with Emily Miggins. She says that it is risky for Wal-Mart to only think about the money that they get, instead of the customers thinking that this is not right it is cruel and hard for the workers. I know that Wal-Mart is NOT doing the right thing but others might not. That is why this article is very important. When we were in class watching the 2nd video I thought as if I were the Mexican farm workers being treated badly, that way I thought and felt even more bad for them. I have a text to world connection with the article. It is that when we were in Mrs. Millers class we watched a video on the farm workers. This guy interviewed them and one of the guys said that he could feel his skin peeling. this was because the owners had been dropping poison down on to them. I remember that day and video A LOT. The one thing that I really thought was nice and cool, was during the video I am pretty sure that Charlotte started to cry. And if you Charlotte are reading this I am not trying to make fun of you. All I am trying to say is that I admire how much you thought about it. I just wish that I could swich lives with them for just one day, so they could stop working and have fun.
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Charlotte
3/3/2015 08:31:34 am
I agree, that the farmers are doing this not because they want to, but because they don't have a choice. When you asked why Walmart would buy from the farm if it had such bad qualities and rules, well I don't think that the bad quality would stop Walmart from buying from the farm, because there is no bad quality in the fruits and vegetables that the farmers pick, only in how the farmers are treated and any market would buy from farms no matter how poorly the farmers are treated. Walmart can help, but they are not going to refuse to buy from the farm. So, I don't think that Walmart is doing the wrong thing. Also, even if Walmart did stop buying from the farms, that would just lessen the amount that the farmers are getting payed. But I like how you even talked about the fact that the food on our plates was once picked and sold. It is true.
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Ashley
3/3/2015 07:37:24 am
I can connect to the "Harvest of Shame" video to this article because both of them tell us how the farm owners don't treat their workers well. The workers are working so hard and they don't have any shelter. For example, they don't have shade and proper place to sleep in. But it feels like the farm owners kind of does nothing. I can connect to the "Harvest of Shame" and this article again because in the video and the article both said that the workers don't have proper beds. In the article it said about farm workers having run down houses. In the video it said that the farm workers didn't have shade or places to sleep in. They can only seek shade in cars and trees or neither. When the workers sleep they sleep in soil or in their cars. They don't have a choice.
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Connie
3/3/2015 09:40:24 am
Right. The farm workers worked really hard on their job. Though, it was shameful that they didn't have good conditions. But now, they have beds and better housing and bathrooms. Also, another connection is that the farm workers didn't get what they deserved in the beginning.
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Sarah :)
3/3/2015 11:02:33 am
I agree with you when you said,"I can connect to the "Harvest of Shame" video to this article because both of them tell us how the farm owners don't treat their workers well. The workers are working so hard and they don't have any shelter." I agree because it is so important that the farmers work so hard but do not have a proper place to sleep. This is so sad that they have to live like this. :(
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Benicio Curiel
3/3/2015 07:47:08 am
I think that the treatment of farmers is important to us in California because these workers pick our fruits and vegetables. Without them it would take a longer time to get our food. We have to remember to think of those that picked our food. This is why we need to treat them better.Farms need to improve the workers homes. In the text it said " Their houses are usually run down homes." This is a problem that needs to be solved. But in the last few weeks the text said " Farms have been giving the workers better shelter. But some farms have been decreaing in politeness. Farmers are supposed to provide shade for the workers. Some farms have been doing better with this problem, but others decrease everything like the workers wages. I think that it is a good idea for Walmart to send people to send people to check out the farms and see if the workers are having a good time. I think it is a must have to have shade in this heat. I wouldn't want to work in 90 degree heat.
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Sarah:)
3/3/2015 11:07:55 am
I agree with you when you said," I think that the treatment of farmers is important to us in California because these workers pick our fruits and vegetables." It is very sad that these farmers are getting treated badly. :(
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Tommy
3/3/2015 07:53:33 am
I think that the treatment of the farm workers matters. If they get treated badly they may not do their best job. The video said many people have died in The Harvest of Shame because of extreme heat. I believe that the farm owners do not have to know about the law of giving shade because they should already do it they do not act like nice to the workers at all. If they give so little money to their workers they must have enough money to get them better places for heat.
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Arlon
3/3/2015 09:29:14 am
I agree with you Tommy because the workers get low pay,die during heat strokes and don't get the right home for them as well.The owners say they didn't know about the law of giving shade to workers even though it was around there for about a year.They probably only said that to avoid spending money on keeping their workers alive.
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Elena
3/3/2015 07:54:44 am
The treatment of the farm workers is important because they want the people who are growing and spend noon till night picking the foods we devouer the food they do not even have. "Wal-Mart also announced it would try to make things better. Experts said Wal-Mart is an important company. It buys more fruits and vegetables from Mexico than any other U.S. company." Wal-Mart is at least noticing that the farmers need more money, so at least they are buying more food from them because they need the MONEY. "Wal-Mart already has inspectors who visit farms. The inspectors give talks on how Wal-Mart wants farmworkers to be treated. EVen WALMART cares and the president and the congress does'nt. In the harvest of shame video it shows that a a girl age 17 died in the field because of the heat of107 deegres! The people who own the field do not give them shade or a gallon of water a hour like the law says. THE LAWS SHOULD BE FOLLOWED IT IS IMPORTANT!!!
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Jay
3/3/2015 08:57:07 am
I agree with you Elena because the farm workers do work until night and it is not fair.
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Charlotte
3/3/2015 07:55:53 am
I think that the treatment of the farmers in Mexico is important to us in the United States , because lots of the markets here in the US buy fruit from farms in Mexico , and if the workers are mistreated , then some may get sick . If this happens , then less fruits and vegetables will be picked and found in markets. Walmart buys from the farms in Mexico a lot, and lots of the people here in the US buy fruit and vegetables from that market. However , people have been saying that Walmart doesn't pay enough to money from the farms. If people start Boycotting Walmart, then that market will lose money , and will no longer be able to buy from the farms. Then we will have to rely on other markets to provide us with fruits and vegetables. In the text it says, "Experts said Walmart s an important company. It buys more fruits and vegetables than any Food market." In the text it also says , "The extra cost is important. It is not as bad as making customers feel the companies do not care about the farm workers." I can connect this with the two videos that we watched, especially "The harvest of shame,", because both the article and the video are about farmers in Mexico that are receiving poor treatment, and little pay.
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arlon
3/3/2015 09:22:47 am
I agree with you Charlotte because farmers easily die of heat strokes,under paid,and has to find shade in trees.And they had been being paid very low.A sack of onions is either 6 or 8 dollars!And they spend hours and hours for little money for one day.
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Connie
3/3/2015 09:32:38 am
I agree with you. It is crucial to treat the farmers fairly, because without them, markets/stores might have to rely on other markets to get food to be sold. I also agree with your connection you wrote. Both videos and passage started as farm workers receiving unfair payment.
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Minerva
3/3/2015 09:54:32 am
"I think that the treatment of the farmers in Mexico is important to us in the United States , because lots of the markets here in the US buy fruit from farms in Mexico , and if the workers are mistreated , then some may get sick . If this happens , then less fruits and vegetables will be picked and found in markets." is what you say. I agree, but I wouldn't really say it that way. I think that "the treatment of the farmers in Mexico is important to us in the United States , because lots of the markets here in the US buy fruit from farms in Mexico" but not that "if the workers are mistreated , then some may get sick . If this happens , then less fruits and vegetables will be picked and found in markets," but that if they get treated so poorly, they may strike. If they strike, we will not have food. Not that they shouldn't strike. They have a great reason to strike it they are mistreated.
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Minerva
3/3/2015 09:56:20 am
By the way, that was my response to Charlotte, not my actual comment.
Brian
3/3/2015 08:04:20 am
I think treatment of farmer is important us because we wouldn't have to pick the food. And if we pick those food the farmers will have to work hard and will be treated badly. And even though we get it from Mexico it is cheap .
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jacob
3/3/2015 08:21:25 am
i agree because they get treated very badly and and you are right if you get it from mexico they said it was very cheap it was cheap for walmart. Next time you should write more than a paragraph just to make sure.
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Jay
3/3/2015 08:54:30 am
I agree with you Brian because its true that we would have to pick crops ourselves!
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Minerva
3/3/2015 09:49:13 am
I don't understand what you mean by "And even though we get it from Mexico it is cheap." I also don't understand "I think treatment of farmer is important us because we wouldn't have to pick the food." Although, I understand that overall, you think that the treatment of farm workers is not right.
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Justine
3/3/2015 11:09:42 am
I don't agree with you because the article was not supposed to teach us that it is good that we don't have to pick the crops, but to let us no about this issue.
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Jacob
3/3/2015 08:18:14 am
I think the treatment of the farmer is important to United State because a lot of store in the U.S buy stuff in the farm of Mexico. The workers get treated very badly. Walmart doesn't pay that much for the farm. I can connect the video called "Harvest of Shame" because they are both farmer that are Hispanic and and they are getting treated very badly. And Walmart buys more fruit and vegetable than any other U.S company. I will show you the evdince in the text it said "Wal-Mart also announced it would try to make things better. Experts said Wal-Mart is an important company. It buys more fruits and vegetables from Mexico than any other U.S. company." So they are they are getting pay a little bit for working for the whole day even at night.
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jacob
3/3/2015 08:25:37 am
(Continued) And the people in Mexico have not enough in the Sonoran dessert have less shade and they dont have a house it is a high temperature and in this video we watch in class "harvest of Shame" one of the people die when she was pregnant and she die from the heat and that was the very sad.
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The red ninja(Jay)
3/3/2015 08:47:26 am
I think the treatment for farm workers is important because if there were no workers we would have nothing to eat.And if you treat the workers bad i do not think that the workers would want the job.In the Harvest of shame a girl died in the high dry son. The temperature was 105 degrees! One of the worst things is that she was pregnant! I also think that the treatment for workers is important because some store companies like Wal-Mart only worry about the cost. The text said that they buy from the cheapest farms.And they do not even care about how the workers are being treated.But the good thing is that companies are inspecting farms and asking them questions about how they are treating their workers and if they lie they ask the workers themselves!
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Arlon
3/3/2015 09:10:20 am
The reason why it is very important for the farmers to be treated better is because of how poorly they have been treated at the farms.Even the people that run lies about stuff there,sort how like how the owner of the farm in the video said he had only heard of the law that the workers need shade while working even though the law has been around for more that a year!And in the documentary,it said 4 workers died because of heat stroke.So that is why they mostly work at night to avoid heat strokes.And their guided by a tiny little headlamp and the little light of the moon.
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Connie
3/3/2015 09:23:16 am
The treatment of farm workers is important, because without these hardworking farmers, the people of the United States won't have any food to eat or survive! These farm workers suffer the heat, while we get to buy and eat the food easily. That's why the owners of the farm should treat their farm workers better. The owners could improve the housing and bathrooms for the workers. Also, in the text, the author wrote, "Others will have to provide beds. Some will have to set up new, cheaper labor camp stores." The people of the United States should really appreciate and be thankful to these busy farm workers. These workers were treated poorly and received very little money. At least now, the workers have better payment and better conditions to live in. A connection I can make between the Cesar Chavez video and the article, is that they both had something to do with farmers not receiving what they should deserve. For the video, Cesar Chavez made sure the farmers get what they deserve after their hot days of suffering. In the passage, it was written, "Last week, many of Mexico's largest farms said they would work together to improve working conditions." In the end, the farm workers were treated a lot better than before.
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Minerva
3/3/2015 09:44:22 am
I think that the treatment of farm workers is important to the U.S. because they pick and grow our food. Without them, like Ryan said, we would not have our fruits and veggies. Therefore, if they get treated so poorly, they may strike. If they strike, we will not have food. Not that they shouldn't strike. If the farms treat them that horribly, they have a reason to strike. I can make a connection because in the "Harvest of Shame" video, the reporter said that "they are being treated OK now, but who knows what will happen to them after we leave." The article said '"When you go down to these places, you basically see what they choose to show you,” said farming expert Devon Zagory. Inspectors have to trust farm owners to tell them "where their worst secrets are.” Often, farms simply hide problems from reporters." I've heard that officers have shot farm workers who were striking and I think that if they are treated that poorly, they have a reason to be striking. Also, my mom's friend Olivia is writing a story that I think we should read to the class. It is a true story of her as a 17 year old girl working in the farms. She talks about how it is tough work and the sun burns her back. She picked so many buckets, taking breaks in the cargo truck, and gets paid the measly pay of $1 a bushel. Anyway, I would really recommend this story for the class. "Experts say there are several good ways to find out how workers are really being treated: visit farms often, make surprise visits and talk to workers. However, doing things that way takes longer and costs more money. Wal-Mart has always preferred a faster and cheaper approach." If Wal-Mart really cared, would they look for a fast and cheaper approach? I also think that the farm owners should not hide anything from reporters.
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violet*
3/3/2015 10:03:35 am
i think that the reason the us thinks it is important for farm workers to be treated nicely because they deserve better . They pick food for us,they stay in the sun for us ,some don't even want to work as a farmer .they don't deserve ugly houses and bad treatment.They deserve decent houses and great treatment . it is important because many of your meals have at least a few things that farmers put a lot of hard work. In " THE HARVEST OF SHAME " the workers even did there work at night so then they have shade ,and workers deserve shade as much as anything else . They also need more money because 80 cents is not enough . .......
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Violet*
3/3/2015 12:54:18 pm
..... That would mean if they can do 8 sack's in 1 hour times 80 cents that would mean they had $6.40.Witch is $2.60 under the minimum wage witch is $9.00 . if they worked all 24 hours they would get $153.00 .Witch is a lot but not enough to feed a family and clean a house . But they don't work all 24 hour's because they need shade and break's because of the heat and how much they worked.A farmer sought shade by a car and ended up getting run over.Even young kids would work on the farm . The two sisters did . Some of the young farmers work because , if the whole family worked they would more money then if one in the family did . I am glad some farm's are changing but even though some are doesn't mean all of them are . some ranchers and the owner's of the farm lie to make it seem that the farmers are okay . But some are not .Another problem is that farm owners are not always truthful.“You basically see what they choose to show you,” said farming expert Devon Zagory. He said the inspectors are asking the farm owners "where their worst secrets are.” Often, the farm owners simply hide problems, Zagory said ." Many farmers died of heat stroke and other heat diseases that are bad . One was a lady who died before her baby was born .
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Celeste
3/3/2015 10:24:06 am
The reason, I think, that we should care about what's happening in Mexico is that, just like with differant skin colors. People are people, no matter what color their skin is, or, in this article, country. How people are treated when making/growing food is impotant because, like I said, people are people, and should be treated that way. I can make a connection to the "Harvest of Shame" video. The article & the video are talking about unfair treatment to farm workers.
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Justine
3/3/2015 11:06:28 am
I agree with you because the video, harvest of shame, was very similar to this article.
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Sarah :)
3/3/2015 10:53:36 am
The treatment of farm workers is important to us in the United States because with out them, our super markets will not have the vegetables, fruits, and other foods from the farm. Also, lots of farm workers are treated badly. It matters to us because we eat those foods they provide for us the consumers. Some evidence from the text is," Many of the fruits and vegetables people in the United States eat are grown in Mexico." More evidence from the text is," But there was a problem. Many of the farms in Mexico treated their workers badly, experts said." A connection I can make between the " Harvest of Shame" video and the article is that they both talked about how the farmers are treated badly. But, the article also talked about how Wal-Mart uses farm's vegetables and fruits. I can not make a connection between any of the videos and the article because the videos do not talk a lot about stores using farms fruits and vegetables.
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Gavin
3/3/2015 10:58:45 am
I think people should care whats happens in Mexico because some people who live there crop our food and they make sure food is on our table for us to eat.They are hard workers and only get paid so little with the hard work they do.Example,working under the sun,selling fruits etc.I know these facts because Mexico is our favorite country to go to during summer or spring break.Today I learned that the farmers in Mexico get a little bit of breaks and it is a very hard job to do.They also work at night.
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Justine
3/3/2015 11:04:13 am
I think it is better for the farmers to get better treatment and we should be concerned about it because it's safer for the farmers, and if they are under better conditions, they will be able to work more and the food will be in better condition. I don't think that it's true when they say the farmers are being treated better because they only interviewed a couple farms. There are probably many other farms that treat their workers badly, and the farms they did interview only told them about the things they were doing right.
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Jaya M. Chuan
3/3/2015 11:57:06 am
I think that the treatment of the farm workers is important because they are the people that work very hard to get food on our plates. The farm workers have to work day and night, no matter the weather condition. The farm workers do have it very well though. They barely even have shade. Sometimes they go to their cars and turn on the air-conditioners, and some people have to get shade from the trees. The farm workers do not get what they deserve. Some of the workers have died because of the heat. The farm owners need to start treating our farm workers better.
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alex
3/3/2015 12:38:36 pm
I agree with you justin. But the only little part I don not agree with you is they work night and day. my understanding was that the fatm workers worked at night because they did most definately do not want to pick crop in blazing heat. The other parts I agree with
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alex
3/3/2015 12:33:57 pm
I think the people in the United States of America shold very much care for the crop pickers and farm workers in Mexico for multiple reasons. The very first reason people shold be concerned, very concerned about the farm workers in Mexico is the HEAT!!!!The sun is so hot it is obliterating people literally. Farm workers been dying from the so very intense sun, and according to the video no shade. If you think about it the farm owners are bassiclly killing the workers because of the poor conditions the ranchers are giving to the farm workers I feel so very sad and devastated by this. Again according to the video the farm workers are working at night to aviod the sun. This just shows the effort these workers are willing to go to aviod the killer sun. Another reson is the MONEY!!! The farm owners are giving little money for the so very hard and intense work the farm workers give them. That is why Ceasar Chavez and his follerwers were boycotting grapes, because of the money. The third and final reason is the ranchers or farmworkers themselves. They are giving poor conditions and poor money as I said before. But as Devon Zagory said in the article, " You see what they choose to show you," and ," they simply hide there problems." I COMPLETELY AGREE with Devon Zagory and for this reason I think Wal-mart and other companies shold to more suprise visit. Whats more important the health of a person or money.bI can make a text to world connection. My dad whith his dad used to go out in the fields and pick crops. He said it was a back breaking jod. literally and metaphoraclly.
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The blue dog ( Lesly)
3/3/2015 01:07:00 pm
I think that the treatment of the farmers is important to the U.S. because farmers are the ones that provide us food, and if they are not treated correctly they might stop working and we will probably have to grow our own food. So if farmers are being treated badly the people in charge of the treatment of the farmers should know how they are being treated. Also in connection to the video, workers had to find their own shade, work at night with only little lights, and had to pick onions for very little money, and had to sleep on the fields or in their cars .This could make people not want to buy there food andfruits.
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Keep Calm and pay more respect to farm workers ( AIDAN )
3/4/2015 07:44:48 am
I think that the treatment of farm workers is important to the U.S. because farmers are the people who help us survive and not starve to death.We are lucky enough to have a parents who have a good job and buy food for us , but are the farmers really have to live under these conditions? NO, they should have a good job and be respected for what they do. People should start thinking about where they get all of these fruits and vegetables. We should be thankful for what the farmers are really doing. Those people who get food to stores and who live under horrible working conditions like not getting enough water and not enough shade people could die if they get heat stroke. When people start to know how other people that keep us alive are not getting respected and treated well, then companies that buy their food and learn that that company cares more about the price then the people that work to store and get the food from the plant don't get respected by that company and then it spreads around and no one will go to that store anymore.That store will go out of bussiness.
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Gael
3/4/2015 10:58:58 am
I think that the treatment of our farmers is very important to us because if we our vegetables and we know that the farmers have to stand in the heat and almost die for our fruits and vegetables. My article will talk about the conditions they are in for the farmers. Number 1 is heat out there in the open is very hot and you could get ill (referring to the Harvest of Shame video) And in this one farm a young girl died when she was pregnant of the suns hot rays. After that people protested on the streets.To farm owners they are complaining to people who make sure they are being treated correctly (Walmart) about shade the farm owners just say sometimes they just go in their car and put on the air conditioner and sometimes people go sit near other people's cars but someone had an accident with that when a car crushed him. Another thing I want to talk about is sleeping sometimes people go home people just dleep right on the floor or people sometimes just fall asleep on the bag of vegetables they were working on others sometimes dont sleep and just keep on working.
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