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Alma Patty Tzalain has been a farmworker for 11 years.

Photograph: Libby March

for The New York Times

I Harvest Your Food. Why Isn’t My Health ‘Essential’?

We sacrifice so much for a country that doesn’t value our lives.

Ms. Tzalain

is a member of the grass-roots organization Alianza Agrícola.

NYT

April 15, 2020    5:00 a.m. ET

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/15/
opinion/covid-farmworkers-paid-leave.html

farmworkers, farm workers        UK / USA

2024

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/19/
farmers-betrayed-by-ministers-says-union-head-before-london-protest

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/19/
a-way-of-life-farmers-in-westminster-express-fears-for-their-futures

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/26/
us/florida-farmworkers-heat.html

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/22/
1252984256/bird-flu-h5n1-virus-human-michigan-cows

https://www.propublica.org/article/
how-dairy-farm-fire-investigate-workers-michigan-wisconsin - February 29, 2024

2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/15/
opinion/covid-farmworkers-paid-leave.html

https://www.npr.org/2020/04/13/
833010445/to-help-farmers-white-house-wants-to-lower-migrant-wages

https://www.npr.org/2020/04/10/
832076074/white-house-seeks-to-lower-farmworker-pay-to-help-agriculture-industry

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/
us/coronavirus-undocumented-immigrant-farmworkers-agriculture.html

https://www.npr.org/2020/03/31/
824358228/farmworkers-deemed-essential-dont-feel-protected-from-pandemic

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/31/
us-coronavirus-outbreak-california-farm-workers

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2020/03/27/
821449729/essential-status-means-jobs-for-farmworkers-but-greater-virus-risk

https://www.npr.org/2020/03/27/
822728385/farm-workers-cant-keep-their-distance-and-cant-get-into-the-u-s-to-work

https://www.npr.org/2020/03/25/
821593542/episode-984-food-and-farmworkers

2018

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/07/31/
634442195/when-the-u-s-government-tried-to-replace-migrant-farmworkers-
with-high-schoolers

2017

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/12/01/
564994235/health-risks-to-farmworkers-increase-as-workforce-ages

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/07/30/
539112692/a-chefs-plea

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/
in-an-immigration-crackdown-who-will-pick-our-produce/2017/03/17/
cc1c6df4-0a5d-11e7-93dc-00f9bdd74ed1_story.html

2016

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/07/15/
484967591/inside-the-lives-of-farmworkers-top-5-lessons-i-learned-on-the-ground

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/04/19/
labor-and-love-in-californias-farmlands/

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/01/28/
464453958/guest-workers-legal-yet-not-quite-free-pick-floridas-oranges

2015

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/08/27/
434763709/farmworkers-see-jobs-earnings-shrivel-in-california-drought

2014

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/05/08/
310724952/injuries-on-the-farm-happen-much-more-often-than-were-told

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/30/
us/california-farmers-short-of-labor-and-patience.html

immigrant labor        USA

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/01/21/
510593227/will-trumps-tough-talk-on-immigration-cause-a-labor-shortage

 immigrant dairy workers

https://www.propublica.org/article/
how-dairy-farm-fire-investigate-workers-michigan-wisconsin - February 29, 2024

USA > undocumented workers in agriculture        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/15/
california-undocumented-immigrants-disaster-relief-fund-coronavirus

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