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This isn't even remotely true. Portable bathrooms are required in produce fields during cultivation and harvest, with hand wash stations and this is inspected.
by mythrwy 2y ago
This isn't even remotely true. Portable bathrooms are required in produce fields during cultivation and harvest, with hand wash stations and this is inspected. Food safety is a big concern at this point and that goes right down the field level (there could be room for improvements).
https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/dosh_publications/Field-Sanitation-Fact-Sheet.pdf https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/dosh_publications/Field-Sanitati...
https://www.osha.gov/laws-regs/regulations/standardnumber/1928/1928.110 https://www.osha.gov/laws-regs/regulations/standardnumber/19...
Also you present below one off cases of human trafficking (some not even in agriculture) but these are rare cases and is not "Many" or "Most" by any stretch of imagination for immigrant farm labors.
That's not to say it's a great easy life nor a way to get fabulously wealthy or anything.
Source: I worked in produce with immigrant laborers on 4 different farms.