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A new Gourmet article by Barry Estabrook explains how migrant farm workers in Florida often end up in positions of involuntary servitude, essentially over the production of crappy wintertime tomatoes destined for supermarket bins or as garnish for some jumbo/burger/gordita concoction plucked off a dollar menu. That includes most restaurants in New York City—fast food or otherwise—that buy tomatoes; more information can be found here. Estabrook writes about one worker in particular who was locked up and beaten by a handler, but it’s no isolated case: "Law-enforcement officials have freed more than 1,000 men and women in seven different cases" since 1997, and it’s not just the tomato growing industry. The piece has so far provoked a predictable cavalcade of xenophobic comments, such as, "I wish I could feel sorry for them, but when you go to a foreign country illegally, can't speak, read nor write the common language, then you're asking, no, BEGGING to be taken advantage of like this man was."
Out of Season Tomatoes More Messed Up Than You’d Think
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"I wish I could feel sorry for them, but when you go to a foreign country illegally, can't speak, read nor write the common language, then you're asking, no, BEGGING to be taken advantage of like this man was."
Ok. Feel sorry for them, but the rest of the statement is spot on. His boss is a raging prick. It's probably still worse wherever he came from.
Ah, here comes the xenophobic bullshit.
this may make me start hating white people,
oops, I think I mentioned that before.
This comment is just as ignorant, if not moreso, as you perceive the original comment to be.
I don't know why I'm replying but
if you've seen my other posts, you'll see
this was a take on another poster comment
made during the Sharpton Vs. NY Post Murdoch
/deLonas controversy.
"I wish I could feel sorry for them, but when you go to a foreign country illegally, can't speak, read nor write the common language, then you're asking, no, BEGGING to be taken advantage of like this man was."
Um, what exactly is wrong with this comment?
This is all the vegetarians' fault.
Comments on this site have really gone downhill.