Hardship on Mexico’s Farms, a Bounty for U.S. tTables
19th December 2014
Another thumbsucker from the Los Angeles Times.
Many farm laborers are essentially trapped for months at a time in rat-infested camps, often without beds and sometimes without functioning toilets or a reliable water supply.
And of course such conditions exist nowhere else on earth, and especially not in Muslim countries.
Some camp bosses illegally withhold wages to prevent workers from leaving during peak harvest periods.
And that is totally the fault of the United States.
Laborers often go deep in debt paying inflated prices for necessities at company stores. Some are reduced to scavenging for food when their credit is cut off. It’s common for laborers to head home penniless at the end of a harvest.
Any resemblance to college students after graduation is purely coincidental.
Those who seek to escape their debts and miserable living conditions have to contend with guards, barbed-wire fences and sometimes threats of violence from camp supervisors.
Any resemblance to Communist dictatorships like, say, Cuba is purely coincidental.
Major U.S. companies have done little to enforce social responsibility guidelines that call for basic worker protections such as clean housing and fair pay practices.
Which is, after all, their primary job, and forget about making a profit.