About 30 minutes into my job as a picker, the strawberry fairy left her first gift. On one of the beds of berries that seemed to stretch forever in...
For every 32 pounds of tomatoes Leonel Perez picks on Florida farmlands, he says he receives a piece rate of 50 cents. "That's a piece rate that ha...
One farm worker dies on the job every day in the United States and hundreds more are injured, according to a report published this month that high...
President Obama visited Keene, Calif., on Monday to pay tribute to famed civil rights and labor leader Cesar Chavez, while trying to shore up support ...
In his new book, Barry Estabrook tells us why the modern factory-farmed tomato in most grocery stores is a poster child for nearly everything that is wrong with industrial agriculture.
Had this bill been in force a few years ago, it might well have been used to put all the people behind the famous documentary Food, Inc. in prison.
By Jo Becker, advocacy director for the children's rights division of Human Rights Watch Hundreds of thousands of children are employed as farmwork...
