Harvest Of Shame Chapter 3 Summary

In chapter 1 starts by mentioning about a documentary called “Harvest of Shame” this did not only open the audience eye on how food is produced and grown in the United States, but also the condition of the worker work in and how hunger is such a big deal. The document had a sequel called “Migrant.” “Migrant” talked about the abuse labor in Florida in the citrus groves. This bad press made those companies want to fix their problem and fix their working conditions. Well that’s what they said but it really took two years to make these changes because they were being threaten to being boycotted for there labor situation. They then tell stories how some companies try to get with slavery in their company. They would make them work long hours and/or

Even these people living condition are horrible. Rather that the worker boss gives them a place to say or if they have to find a place to stay on their own because of the wages. The chapter then goes to talk about the chemical and pesticides that they see being used in factories. They found out that so many chemicals were causing health problems. Some health problems led to men not allowing them to have children, someone would have non-stop nose bleeds. Others had stomach cancer and toxic effects on the female reproduction system. They banned certain pesticides in America yet they still are allowed to sell it to other countries knowing this information. Even though the ban happened the worker were still suffering health problem from where they are working, but did not report the problems in fear of losing their job. The farmers also do not that have much independence for there farms. They mostly have to follow what the corporations want in order to sell their crops. They also have to be carful on how they use pesticides because it can be harmful to the people. Corporations do not treat animals right. I think this was eye-opening about how there are corporations that still treat their workers so badly and nothing is being done about