Farmworkers Coronavirus

The farmworkers putting food on America's tables are facing their own coronavirus crisis

(CNN)More than a million farmworkers aren't hunkered down at home as the coronavirus pandemic paralyzes much of the country.
Their labor -- in fields, orchards and packing plants -- is keeping food on America's tables.
But workers and groups who represent them are sounding an alarm. Their warning: As the virus spreads, many farmworkers are living and working in conditions that put their health particularly at risk. And if outbreaks hit farmworker communities hard, they say, that could put the nation's food supply at risk, too.
Growers and farmers say they're doing everything they can to keep production going and keep employees safe, including scaling back the number of workers they're transporting on buses, spacing workers out more as they harvest and increasing the number of hand-washing stations.
But workers and advocates who spoke with CNN detailed concerns about lapses in on-the-job safety, such as some farms that lack soap and protective equipment, and others that fail to enforce social distancing guidelines. Limited access to medical care and crowded living conditions, they said, are also major hurdles to keeping workers healthy.

Greg Asbed fears it's not a question of if, but when, a devastating outbreak will hit. As a co-founder of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, which represents thousands of farmworkers in Florida, he says rural communities like his aren't prepared for a health crisis.

"Once the virus takes root in a town like Immokalee, it will take off like wildfire," he says. "That's our fear ... We will see this problem explode."
Erik Nicholson, vice president of United Farm Workers, says it's not a hypothetical. In the last two weeks, he says he's heard about dozens of farm workers testing positive for the virus in Washington state, where he's based.
"We're living this in real time," he says. "And the fear and the anger is rising." MORE...

No worries though since there ISN'T a virus! REJOICE!!!

The plight of the migrant farm workers in America a hidden history.
The cancer rates Central valley Ca and other area's off the chats from chemical pestcide, post WW2 And they call these folks illegals. these people used abused Exploited by a greedy capitalistic Money grab Machine.







Lie Number one - Growers and farmers say they're doing everything they can to keep production going and keep employees safe,

facing their own coronavirus crisis and chemical war fare!

The Fruits of Ill-Health: Pesticides and Workers' Bodies in Post-World War II California

Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of The History of Science Society



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NuNativs
Farmworkers Coronavirus

The farmworkers putting food on America's tables are facing their own coronavirus crisis

(CNN)More than a million farmworkers aren't hunkered down at home as the coronavirus pandemic paralyzes much of the country.
Their labor -- in fields, orchards and packing plants -- is keeping food on America's tables.
But workers and groups who represent them are sounding an alarm. Their warning: As the virus spreads, many farmworkers are living and working in conditions that put their health particularly at risk. And if outbreaks hit farmworker communities hard, they say, that could put the nation's food supply at risk, too.
Growers and farmers say they're doing everything they can to keep production going and keep employees safe, including scaling back the number of workers they're transporting on buses, spacing workers out more as they harvest and increasing the number of hand-washing stations.
But workers and advocates who spoke with CNN detailed concerns about lapses in on-the-job safety, such as some farms that lack soap and protective equipment, and others that fail to enforce social distancing guidelines. Limited access to medical care and crowded living conditions, they said, are also major hurdles to keeping workers healthy.

Greg Asbed fears it's not a question of if, but when, a devastating outbreak will hit. As a co-founder of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, which represents thousands of farmworkers in Florida, he says rural communities like his aren't prepared for a health crisis.

"Once the virus takes root in a town like Immokalee, it will take off like wildfire," he says. "That's our fear ... We will see this problem explode."
Erik Nicholson, vice president of United Farm Workers, says it's not a hypothetical. In the last two weeks, he says he's heard about dozens of farm workers testing positive for the virus in Washington state, where he's based.
"We're living this in real time," he says. "And the fear and the anger is rising." MORE...

No worries though since there ISN'T a virus! REJOICE!!!

Since your post is kind of lacking in usefulness
How about this

So I just watched d vitalis wildfed

Since it's your destiny to lead us into the light


The episode showed turkey hunt and wild plant foraging

Now what he does on a regular basis one must assume is go to the store like everyone else unless we are to believe that he forages for all his food

Of course like everything else there are tradeoffs
To food sources

You tell us

1. if you think that we should all be living like DV

Tell us
2. What you currently do with respect to food acquisition

3. Are you living your ideal?

4. What is your ideal?

5. Are you moving towards it?

6. Obviously from one perspective we are overpopulated pestilence upon the earth.
Your solution is what? The virus?
you seem to be like a Bill Gates lite but who knows.

7. Where and how is it possible to sustain ourselves in a manner that fits with the less animal killing tendencies of people here without mono cropping?

Any other thoughts beyond these

If your answer is well u can't talk about those things here then
Why are you here?
Would you like to change the board purpose?



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Okay, I read the article about CNN's 'concern' for the Illegal Immigrant Farmworkers.

1. No, it's not concern, it's like usual- Lib Media Sensationalizing/Hyping the Coronavirus.

2. I don't think anybody is really concerned that the produce we're buying is loaded with Coronavirus.

3. Gee, I see the word "CASES" of coronavirus many places in the article, and I see "TESTED POSITIVE" for Coronavirus many times in the article, but NOWHERE IN THE ARTICLE DOES IT SAY THERE WERE ANY 'CORONAVIRUS DEATHS' among Farmworkers.
(Remember - the Number of CASES is meaningless, or else it just means they tested a lot of people)

So yeah, just another Hypothetical/Hype Lying Lib Fake Media Sensationalizing Article about the Bogeyman Coronavirus.

While 'THEY' continue Destroying America and The Whole World! And the Sheeple are Lapping It Up

say what?



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Also - RINO Trump and the RINO's in Congress have already given Illegal Immigrant Farmworkers everything they ever wanted and more, including Amnesty, in December, so what's with the Pity Party for Illegal Farmworkers? (And they'll all be Voting Democrat in November)

Because the Libs want the Illegals' Votes and the RINO Chamber of Commerce/Crony Capitalists want cheap labor. Thanks RINO Trump! I'm glad I never voted for you!

House passes bill that would give legal status to thousands of undocumented farmworkers

[thehill.com]

The House on Wednesday passed a bill granting legal status to thousands of undocumented farmworkers.

The legislation to provide work permits for agricultural workers was approved on a bipartisan 260-165 vote.

After months of closed-door bipartisan negotiations, the Farm Workforce Modernization Act was introduced in late October by Reps. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-Fla.), Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), Dan Newhouse (R-Wash.), Collin Peterson (D-Minn.), Jimmy Panetta (D-Calif.), Mike Simpson (R-Idaho) and Doug LaMalfa (R-Calif.).

Under the proposal, the H-2A visa category for agricultural workers would be reformed to add flexibility for employers bringing in new foreign labor.

The bill would allow foreign workers who've worked in the U.S. agricultural sector for at least 180 days over the past two years to request five-year visas for themselves, their spouses and their minor children.

Those visas would be renewable for workers who prove they've worked in agriculture for more than 100 hours per year.

And some beneficiaries would be amenable to legal permanent residence, the prelude to citizenship, by paying a $1,000 fine.

Workers with more than 10 years of agricultural service at the time of enactment would need to work another four years in agriculture to obtain legal permanent status, and workers with less than 10 years experience would need to accumulate a further eight years to qualify.

The bill also provides limitations on access to social services for its beneficiaries, a cap on wage growth and universal implementation in participating sectors of the E-Verify program, a federal database designed to ensure workers applying for jobs are legally eligible for employment in the United States.

The bill's proponents hope the measure could ameliorate a labor shortage in U.S. agriculture, an issue that's been aggravated by a complicated visa process and and enhanced immigration enforcement.

"When you read the title, maybe folks may only think this is only an agricultural bill, but in reality this bill also helps deal with a vital national security issue -- a stable supply of agricultural goods produced here, in the United States of America," said Díaz-Balart, speaking on the House floor in favor of the bill.

Only three Democrats, Reps. Bobby Scott (Va.), Ben McAdams (Utah) and Jared Golden (Maine) voted against the bill, and Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) voted present.

The proposal also garnered the support of 34 Republicans, although proponents were hopeful up to 100 GOP lawmakers would vote for the bill.

The party's right flank dubbed the proposal an "amnesty bill" and lobbied against it ahead of the vote, likely reducing support from the GOP.

Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), a longtime opponent of bills that include legalization for undocumented immigrants told The Hill the proposal is "amnesty. It's just that simple,"

"It's disappointing," said LaMalfa.

"The biggest trouble on our side is somebody says the "A" word and you run for the hills," he said.

"This is not amnesty," LaMalfa added.

LaMalfa said the bill would provide a way for foreign agricultural workers to come to the country with prior authorization, and allow for workers already in the country to regularize their status.

"Those that are here, you know, we all acknowledge that many are not here legally, but it moves them to legal status without giving away the farm. It doesn't hand out citizenship. It doesn't hand out federal benefits," he added.

But some Republicans' critiques were more nuanced.

Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga.), the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee, said the bill would benefit large dairies but would not have a meaningful impact on Georgia's agriculture.

"I'm not questioning the motives, I just don't think it was put together real well," said Collins.

Collins added he's hopeful to sit down with Lofgren and Senate leaders to work out a bill to improve on the existing proposal.

And Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) the ranking Republican on the Judiciary Immigration Subcommittee, complained that Republican amendments were left out in the bill's markup.

In committee, Lofgren alluded to the complicated balance of negotiations that led to the bill's final text in explaining her down vote on some amendments.

Still, the bill marks a rare show of bipartisanship on an issue that's plagued Congress for decades.

"We've tried to do this for decades. We tried as part of a whole bill, we tried as little bills. We never could get a majority vote to do anything until today," said Lofgren.

Newhouse lauded Lofgren from the House floor Wednesday for including Republicans in forming "a diverse group of members of Congress, agricultural stakeholders, farmers and producers, labor unions and farmworker organizations to write a piece of legislation that'll go a long way toward providing certainty for our ag industry."

And more than 350 agricultural groups joined in to support the bill, as well as major labor organizations like the United Farm Workers.

Lofgren and Newhouse both underscored the idea that the bill "is not perfect," but said it's a good compromise for all sides.

fresh I will answer your thoughtful questions tomorrow. they are good.

jennifer, it's not about corona in the food, it's about the food supply being interrupted if the migrant population gets sick, as fresh produce is the raw vegan staple.



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yeah but jennifer,

at least they're not getting the 1200 dollars they're throwing at us to try to placate us for a couple weeks.