“Without health life is not life; it is only a state of languor and suffering―an image of death,” says Buddha. In the past one hundred years until now, life has changed tremendously. First, individuals who have some type of hierarchy seem to be unconcerned about working peoples’ needs in order to live a healthy and successful life. In this case, the food industry has begun to violate the food we eat with harmful pesticides. Employers are getting sick from the fumes from these pesticides; and they are being treated as criminals. This type of situation deserves to be observed because by far no human being should suffer from trying to work and provide for his or her family. The food that we eat should not be contaminated with dangerous chemicals.
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(Bauer) also, according to the U.S. Labor Department the worker earns about $10,000 to $12,000 a year, which equal to about five to six dollars an hour. (Estabrook 100) These workers are likely not well educated, but are willing to do whatever it takes to earn wages to provide for their families. Migrant worker is very dedicated to family and bosses. This dedication, open migrant’s worker up to exploitation and manipulation by employers. For example, a tomato farmer in Florida lure worker on the idea of better wages and benefits if they come to work for them, but these farmers do not tell the workers that they subcontract their work to crew bosses. However, the company pays them, but the boss handles the day-to-day jobs. These bosses treat these employees in a bad way by lying to them by transporting them to field from 20 minutes to two hours away. They selected workers by lining them up like cattle and selecting them based on who is the most promising individual one by one from youngest to …show more content…
(Estabrook 100-106) These workers are sometime not paid orders in the middle of the night to leave because issue come up between bosses and worker and not paid. The farm workers are treated with no respect and disregard. (Estabrook 84 -85) These types of farm need to investigate and cited or even closed because of the type of treatment workers receive. Migrant worker transported in an unsafe vehicle from field to field that lack seat belt where some work were injured, they also were unpaid by farm bosses and owners like Mecca farms. The subjected worker to labor where they had to carry over size load by hand, which over time causes many back injuries. These farm workers are now suing for damages. (Maxwell 2001) This is one way to hold the farmer accountable for their focus, which apparently is only profit. Some migrant calls the working in field devil's work because they bend over all day it was bad in the heat, but worse in the cold because the fields were muddy and the sometime had workers had the flu. Other workers in other fields had to duck underneath vines all day on the side of a track or trying to keep from being run over as they work. (Migrant
(Bauer) also, according to the U.S. Labor Department the worker earns about $10,000 to $12,000 a year, which equal to about five to six dollars an hour. (Estabrook 100) These workers are likely not well educated, but are willing to do whatever it takes to earn wages to provide for their families. Migrant worker is very dedicated to family and bosses. This dedication, open migrant’s worker up to exploitation and manipulation by employers. For example, a tomato farmer in Florida lure worker on the idea of better wages and benefits if they come to work for them, but these farmers do not tell the workers that they subcontract their work to crew bosses. However, the company pays them, but the boss handles the day-to-day jobs. These bosses treat these employees in a bad way by lying to them by transporting them to field from 20 minutes to two hours away. They selected workers by lining them up like cattle and selecting them based on who is the most promising individual one by one from youngest to …show more content…
(Estabrook 100-106) These workers are sometime not paid orders in the middle of the night to leave because issue come up between bosses and worker and not paid. The farm workers are treated with no respect and disregard. (Estabrook 84 -85) These types of farm need to investigate and cited or even closed because of the type of treatment workers receive. Migrant worker transported in an unsafe vehicle from field to field that lack seat belt where some work were injured, they also were unpaid by farm bosses and owners like Mecca farms. The subjected worker to labor where they had to carry over size load by hand, which over time causes many back injuries. These farm workers are now suing for damages. (Maxwell 2001) This is one way to hold the farmer accountable for their focus, which apparently is only profit. Some migrant calls the working in field devil's work because they bend over all day it was bad in the heat, but worse in the cold because the fields were muddy and the sometime had workers had the flu. Other workers in other fields had to duck underneath vines all day on the side of a track or trying to keep from being run over as they work. (Migrant