Meet the Workers Who Pick a Third of the Tomatoes in U.S. Supermarkets
The Perennial Plate, a web series about sustainable food, interviews Lupe Gonzalo, a tomato picker and organizer in Immokalee, Florida. Paid per bucket of tomatoes and living nine to a trailer, workers like Gonzalo struggle to make ends meet. Daniel Klein, the co-creator and host of the series, wants to spread awareness about the harsh conditions and labor practices behind the produce we often take for granted. “Most likely,” he writes, “there is a wonderful person just like her picking the tomatoes you buy at the grocery store.
Youthful Expression: Commercialized.
The human race has been commercialized
We are factory made, packaged, and shipped
Wrapped in complacency
Boxed in conformity
On the surface, we are neat and appealing, even beautifulBut our perceptions are shrinking beneath the shrink-wrap until we can’t even see the truth, which is this:
We…
(Source: lostarkestra)
heaviehüdlm.: race?
wspj:
people look different.
so you think we must BE different.
you draw lines of difference where you think the difference IS.
but we end up in the same place doing the same things BEING obviously the same…
do you still think looking different is enough evidence to believe we ARE different?
the…
the ____ highway… (Taken with instagram)
Doorways into a India of Past - Pune India (by lecercle)
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(Reblogged from spunkyone)
A man was just killed, for the death of countless others. “Tonight is a night for sober and mature reflection, not glee. Mindless celebration is both spiritually inappropriate and politically naive.
D. Rockwell (via spunkyone)
My heart literally exploded during this speech.
Hauntingly beautiful. I think I felt my heart being ripped out of my body.
Consume with caution and beware of your individual sensitivity. This may lead to uncontrollable emotions.
It is shit like this that gives life meaning.
