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Life of Caesar

In the L.A. Weekly, Vince Beiser has an article on the life of a Caesar salad, looking at all the underpaid labor and overtoxic chemicals that go into making one, from start to finish. Good piece. It's also worth quoting Mark Krikorian's bit on the economics of immigrant farmworkers: "Foreign labor is concentrated in the harvest of fresh fruits and vegetables. And if you look at the actual numbers, you'd see that since labor accounts for such a small part of the retail price fruits and vegetables, giving farm workers a 40 percent raise would increase grocery costs for the typical American consumers by $8 a year. Eight dollars. A year." Okay, then.

Posted by Bradford Plumer on 11/23/05 at 2:43 PM | E-mail | Print

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Farm laborers are some of the hardest-working poor folks in America. It's long hours, low pay and broken backs. The good news is that it wouldn't take much to improve things dramatically. For a typical household, a 40 percent increase in farm labo... [Read More]

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That's a really good article. And there are even more horrors than the ones listed: The eggs come from factory farms where battery cages are used, and then there's the matter of the cheese, which, in many cases, comes from factory farm cows. Cruelty all the way around.

Posted by: Diane on 11/24/05 at 8:17 AM