...source of corporate power and profits, and when family farms are relentlessly displaced by industrial production, the work of cultivating a critical mindfulness about what we eat is especially urgent: who produces food, and under what conditions? In that work, Daniel Rothenberg's fine study of migrant farm workers in the United States will be essential reading. It is aimed directly at what he calls a "form of social forgetting" that is reinforced by the geographic isolation of urbanization and class. (326) While North American supermarkets are filled with produce "as if by magic, ... few people realize that virtually every vegetable and piece of fruit we eat was handpicked by a farmworker" (xvii); one of a poorly-paid, poorly-protected caste of at least two million, mostly men, mostly immigrant, mostly invisible, but still essential to a continental food system....

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