Food and Farm Labor

Uber Eats food delivery app riders lining up in the street to deliver food from restaurants

Op-ed: California Sets a Dangerous Precedent for Food Delivery Workers Nationwide

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11.12.20

A new york city street food vendor sells pastries outside the subway station

What Life Is Like for Immigrant New York Street Vendors

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10.02.20

agtech automation TX harvester advanced.farm

The Robots are Coming to Harvest Your Food. What Will it Mean for Farmworkers and Rural Communities?

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09.29.20

farmworkers picking corn

15 Stories About How the Pandemic is Impacting Food and Farm Workers

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09.07.20

h-2a guest farmworkers get temperature checks before starting their shifts.

A Battle over Mandatory Farmworker Testing Reveals a Broken System

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09.03.20

Over the course of four hours, the team of 14 vineyard workers harvested ten tons of grapes (20,000 pounds).

Photoessay: On the Front Lines of Fire with Wine Country Farmworkers

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09.02.20

food workers at a poultry processing plant watch chickens go by as line speeds accelerate

USDA Seeks to Permanently Speed up Poultry Plant Line Speeds

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08.31.20

farmworkers wash hands in the fields to try to prevent the spread of coronavirus

Isolated in Crowded Conditions, Guest Farmworkers Face High Coronavirus Toll

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08.27.20

Tom Philpott and the cover of his new book, Perilous Bounty. Author photo © Gabriel C. Pérez.

Tom Philpott Predicts the End of Farming as We Know It

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08.27.20

A woman stands outside the Cedar Terrace apartments after the derecho destroyed the building. Photo by Pat Rynard for Iowa Starting Line.

The Iowa Derecho Put Refugee Food Workers at Even Greater Risk

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08.25.20

A barn at Pie Ranch in Pescadero has burned down during the 2020 California wildfires. (Photo credit: Nancy Vail)

Wildfires Across Northern California Devastate Farmers and Farmland

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08.24.20

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), running mate of Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee former Vice President Joe Biden, attends a coronavirus briefing at a makeshift studio at the Hotel DuPont on August 13, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware.

Kamala Harris Brings Food Justice to the Democratic Ticket

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08.18.20

workers cutting meat in a slaughterhouse

How Essential Food Workers Are Fighting Back

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07.31.20

workers in a poultry processing plant dealing with fast poultry line speeds and insufficient social distancing and other protections.

Op-ed: Speeding Up Poultry Lines in a Pandemic Puts Workers’ Lives in Danger

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07.17.20

WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 28: Democratic presidential candidate and former housing secretary Julian Castro takes the stage during the J Street National Conference at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center October 28, 2019 in Washington, DC. Castro and three other presidential candidates were interviewed about Israel and U.S. foreign policy during the conference hosted by J Street, a political action committee that supports two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Julián Castro on the Goya Boycott and How to Support Communities of Color

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07.14.20

a collage of three different home chefs and home cooks who work as MEHKOs

It’s Now Legal for Home Chefs in California to Sell Meals. Will More Cities Get on Board?

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06.30.20

An Uber Eats food delivery courier on a bike in high speed. Restaurants are closed and only deliveries are allowed during the state of emergency due to coronavirus.

Restaurants Are at the Mercy of Delivery Apps, but Can they Survive the Pandemic Without Them?

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06.23.20

A man cooks food in a restaurant kitchen. Photo credit: One Fair Wage.

One Fair Wage Wants to Help Reopen Restaurants—and Change How They Pay Workers

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06.19.20