![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Your book discusses how easy it was to incorporate vegetables into a meal while only shopping at an Asian market in northern Virginia. The going rate for illegal immigrants these days - depending on the region - is often $10 an hour or more. They consider it a privilege to have a chance to work in the US at higher-paying jobs. In Mexico it’s common for these workers to earn $1 or $2 a day, and many of them can’t even afford a doctor for their children. By no means are all of those individuals miserable. All that backbreaking labour and you only get enough for you and a friend to get a cookie and a large coffee at Starbucks.Īnd yet a lot of those Mexicans send money back home. She worked with Mexicans in the fields picking tomatoes and peaches. I just read The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Wal-Mart, Applebee’s, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table by Tracie McMillan, which investigates how food is handled in the US. ![]()
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