Surprise! Little Mexicans Pick Your Food.
2 November 2009, 10:56 AM. By Cindy Casares
ABC News ran a story this weekend about how Walmart and Kroger have severed ties with the Adkin Blue Ribbon Packing Company because ABC News found a bunch of children, one of them only five years old, picking blueberries on one of their farms. Wait. There are brown children picking crops in America? This flies in the face of all the stories our dad and our granddad told us about picking cotton in the scorching, hot fields of Texas every summer of their childhoods. Oh wait. It doesn’t. But America will continue to act shocked. After all, we thought food was brought to our tables by fairies. Legal, white fairies who don’t strain our welfare system and break into our homes when we’re not looking (except to leave money under our pillows when we lose a tooth.)
It turns out, according to ABC News’ Brian Ross, that child labor laws in the United States farming industry are “widely ignored and poorly enforced.” And blueberries aren’t the only food on your table that was likely picked by some tiny, brown child because it seems that tiny fingers are better for picking certain crops. Oh, well, if you put it that way, there’s a technical reason behind it. We emailed Walmart’s ethics department, (located next to the ladies unmentionables), for a comment on why it took ABC News to alert them to their own supplier’s unethical practices. We haven’t heard back as of the time of this publication.
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Hold your breath. I’m certain you’ll hear back from them soon. LOL
What will ABC expose next? Most male hair stylists are gay?
fucking gringos. keep talking about getting rid of Mexicans and you will never eat fruit and vegetables again. ineptos (@ least the ones that speak w/o facts, or out their ahole)
yeah, i heard it’s called “summer vacation.” remember that time we picked strawberries last year? wasn’t it fun? we’re going to do it again this year. yay!
i remember picking tomatoes at 8 years old. i used to pick my nose too.lol
In fact there were only three small brown children found picking blueberries, oh wait! maybe they were asked to pick the blueberries for the photographer by the photographer, the same photographer who gained access to the farm by stating that they were studying migrant farming in America and the same photographer that has to hide out in local blueberry fields to find three small brown people to photograph. GREAT SCOOP… Carnegie Mellon should be proud! All those thousands of dollars well spent and one local farmer DEFAMED for you story. Wonder if that small brown family will have a farm to come back and “slave away”at next summer?
Sorry, not Carnigie Mellon, Carnigie Corporation… They were the idiots that financed this scandalous expose! ABC gave them the air time. SHAME ON YOU BOTH!
I thought the story and the ramifications of it suck. The farmer will shut down operations, and now the families will be out of work. Obviously if they had been paid a living wage to begin with, their kids wouldn’t have to work, but now they have NO wage.
Pssht. White Californian here… even the fields we can see FROM THE HIGHWAY are obviously only picked by miserable, overworked brown people, and it’s not a secret that families are packed together in shanties and overworked together, etc. etc… anyone who imagines different is a willful moron.
Enjoy your salad.