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Welcome, welcome, welcome
to Last Week Tonight.
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I'm John Oliver, thank you so much for
joining us. It has been a busy week!
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The Justice Department charged
a 21-year-old
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with leaking classified documents,
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our business daddy took its content
purge up a notch
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and just threw the whole HBO out,
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and
the NRA held its annual convention,
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at which South Dakota governor Kristi
Noem tried desperately to dispel
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stereotypes about the group, only
to be undercut by a brutal cutaway.
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{\an8}The media would have us believe that
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{\an8}the NRA is only made up of old white
guys,
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{\an8}but theres a lot of other people,
a lot of diversity within the NRA.
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{\an8}Well, let me tell you something,
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{\an8}I may be a mom and a grandma,
but I am the NRA.
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Thats an Oscar-winning edit right
there.
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Nothing undermines her point better
than a cutaway
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proving the diversity in that crowd
ranges somewhere between
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Antiques Roadshow and Friends
reunion.
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That looks like a version of Guess Who
thats just Oops All Peter.
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But instead of focusing on that,
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tonight, like every fight youve had
with your uncle since 2016,
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were going to start with abortion.
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The thing that Republican men love to
ban
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almost as much as they love to secretly
pay for.
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Just over a week ago, a Texas judge
suspended the FDAs approval
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of mifepristone, a key component in
medication abortions.
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And as many quickly pointed out, the
ruling was shaky at best.
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{\an8}The conservative Texas judge behind
the ruling to ban the drug
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{\an8}argues that the FDA improperly
approved it 23 years ago,
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{\an8}ignoring legitimate safety concerns.
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{\an8}But at the time, the FDA actually spent
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{\an8}triple the average amount of time
studying the drug.
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Yeah. The judge in question, Matthew
Kacsmaryk,
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argued that a drug thats been on the
market in the U.S. for 23 years
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is somehow too dangerous.
Which is wild,
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given that its been widely available
for a full Kiernan Shipka now.
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And its not just the fact that
mifepristone was studied
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for triple the amount of time the FDA
normally would-
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its that its demonstrably safer than
many others on the market.
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{\an8}A CNN analysis of FDA data found that
the risk of death from another drug,
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{\an8}penicillin, is four times greater than
it is for this abortion medication.
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{\an8}The risk of death after taking another
drug, Viagra,
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{\an8}is nearly ten times greater as well.
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Right, and once its clear that
something is safer than both
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treating strep throat and giving an old
guy a boner,
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it is pretty hard to pull the public
health card.
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And look, it is not that surprising
that this judge arrived at a conclusion
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not supported by the evidence.
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Not only does he have a face that
screams
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high school football coach who follows
all the cheerleaders on Instagram,
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but prior to being appointed to the
court by Trump,
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he was loudly anti-abortion and part of
a right-wing legal organization.
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Even his confirmation hearing featured
some pretty big red flags.
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{\an8}You said in 2015 that
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{\an8}recognizing the right
to same-sex marriage
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{\an8}would lead this country on, quote,
a road to potential tyranny.
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{\an8}Do you continue to believe that?
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{\an8}Senator, I am, uh, I dont have
any recollection of that quote.
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{\an8}It was in an amicus brief that you
wrote in Obergefeld v. Hodges.
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{\an8}I dont remember that particular quote.
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Oh! Oh, you dont, do you? You know,
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its pretty telling that instead of an
outright no there, he said,
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I dont remember.
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Indicating that he knows its something
that he couldve said.
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I dont remember everything that Ive
ever said,
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but I certainly know what sounds like
me.
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Have I ever said, Ya gotta give it to
the Nazis? No, I havent.
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Have I ever said,
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Wheres the skanks at, Johnny O. wants
to get his dick wet? No, I havent.
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Have I ever said, The girl one from
Gremlins two could get it?
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Senator, I dont have any recollection
of that particular quote.
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So, we always knew where Kacsmaryk
would go on an abortion case.
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But the way he got there was still
shockingly dishonest.
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At one point, his ruling cites a
statistic that 77% of women
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who had a chemical abortion reported
a negative change as a result.
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But the sample for that study was based
on 98 blog posts
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on an anti-abortion website.
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Even the study itself pointed out how
non-representative it was, saying,
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Most women reported that their
medication abortion changed them,
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which is not surprising given the name
of the website: Abortion Changes You.
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And that is some heavy confirmation
bias. This is that site!
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And using that as your source is like
claiming that abortion makes you better
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at frisbee golf, by citing a poll on
the website,
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Abortion-Makes-You-Better-at-Frisbee-
Golf- dot-com.
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By the way, fun fact: whenever we
mention a fake website on this show,
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we actually have to buy the URL to make
sure that no one takes it.
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So, we now own the domain
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{\an8}Abortion-Makes-You-Better-at-Frisbee-
Golf-dot- com.
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{\an8}Which is currently just a page with the
words, Why are you here? on it.
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Also, one more thought on Abortion
Changes You.
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Not to be crass here but-you know what
else does that? A fucking pregnancy.
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Because Ive got news for you, for
weeks after giving birth,
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that baby is not the only one in
diapers.
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Also, theres a baby now.
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And look, ending access to mifepristone
wont, in itself,
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end medication abortions entirely.
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It is possible to do it without
mifepristone,
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but it can be more difficult and more
painful.
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Also, mifepristone isnt just
used for abortions.
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Its a critical tool for treating
miscarriages.
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So, like most anti-abortion measures,
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this ruling could also end up severely
impacting
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those with medical complications from
wanted pregnancies as well.
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As this doctor points out, anyone
having a miscarriage
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who cant access a medication abortion
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may be subject to some intense
suffering.
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{\an8}Theyll have to either have surgery, or
theyll have to wait, which, you know,
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wait for the pregnancy to pass on its
own which could take eight weeks.
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And thats brutal and thats, I mean,
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torture for people who are going
through a miscarriage.
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Exactly. Can you imagine getting some
of the worst news of your life
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and then having to carry it around
painfully with you for eight weeks,
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all because some Disney Channel
vice principal from Texas
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decided to play doctor for the entire
fucking country?
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Now, there have already been a lot of
appeals on this,
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and the Supreme Court just stepped in
and put Kacsmaryks order on hold
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until at least this coming Wednesday.
So, there is a lot up in the air here.
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But it is not ideal that the dream team
who overturned Roe v. Wade
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may soon decide whether to greenlight
the sequel.
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Because overturning Roe was clearly
never about
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returning it to the states.
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It was always a step towards banning
abortion entirely.
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And its frankly both absurd and
infuriating
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that such vital healthcare
can be thrown into chaos for everyone,
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all because of the badly-reasoned
decisions of this fucking guy.
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It seems like abortion has become a
Schrodingers right in this country,
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that people simultaneously do and dont
have,
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depending on where they live,
whos in the White House,
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and what the shittiest judge in America
feels like doing.
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That is why it is so important
for it to be protected by law-
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ideally in the Constitution- and for it
to be recognized for what is:
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a basic right, a human necessity, and
something that I hear-
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and I got this from a completely
reputable website-
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could actually make you better at
frisbee golf.
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And now, this.
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And Now:
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Did You Know Action News Robert Grant
Has a Fucking Dairy Allergy?
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{\an8}I have a fun fact, Robert.
I've never had Nutella.
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{\an8}I have a fun fact, too.
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{\an8}Oh, here we go!
I know what hes gonna say.
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I can't have Nutella because I have a
dairy allergy.
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{\an8}- Mashed potatoes?
- They look good.
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{\an8}What do you mean?
Why are you looking at me like that?
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{\an8}I guess it's-am I gonna have to bring
up the dairy thing?
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{\an8}- We know thats coming.
- We know that it's-that you can't have-
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{\an8}So, I cant have that.
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{\an8}We're recognizing the organization that
gave us Do-si-dos-T-
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{\an8}how do you say this, Meghan?
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{\an8}- Tagalongs.
- Tagalongs?
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{\an8}I have my dairy allergy,
so I don't-I don't ever eat them.
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- Robert, can you eat Snickers?
- You know, I can't eat either of those.
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- Anything with dairy.
- It has dairy and I have dairy allergy.
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{\an8}Fun fact, I always overshare, but I'm
allergic to dairy.
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{\an8}Robert, that looks really good, but I'm
pretty sure you can't eat it.
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{\an8}I can't eat it. The dairy allergy
always gets in the way.
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{\an8}I know. Ill have two.
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{\an8}You can get that hot cup of coffee,
maybe some hot chocolate.
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{\an8}Not for you though, because you can't
have dairy.
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Why, Meghan?
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{\an8}I like popcorn with Buncha
Crunch on top.
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{\an8}Which I did-I don't know
what Buncha Crunch is.
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It's it because it has dairy in it.
You can't eat it.
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{\an8}- Lot of buffalo chicken dip, though.
- Yes.
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{\an8}Sorry, Robert. You can't-can't partake
in that.
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{\an8}He has a dairy allergy,
if you didn't know.
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{\an8}Robert can't have it.
Cause dairy.
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{\an8}The Choco Taco may make a return.
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{\an8}Robert calls it the Choke-o Taco,
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{\an8}so you can tell who actually eats ice
cream in this studio.
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{\an8}I have a dairy allergy!
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Moving on. Our main story tonight
concerns farming.
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Farms are where we get our food, our
metaphors about fascism,
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and are the subject of surprisingly
popular video games like this.
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I played Farming Simulator.
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A whole new world was revealed to me.
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Agriculture.
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Animal husbandry.
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Forestry. And a lot of exciting
machinery.
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Never cultivated a field before.
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And, oh boy,
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let me tell you about spraying a field
with a double application rate,
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and dynamic working width.
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Thats something else!
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Believe me,
farming is easy.
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Mastering it is a challenge.
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And theres always time to relax.
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You know,
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I have great news for that guy whos
never cultivated a field before-
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you still havent.
You havent grown a vegetable,
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you havent sprayed anything with a
double rate of anything,
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and you havent even really watched any
barnyard animals go to pound-town.
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That game is to farming what Call of
Duty is to war.
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It looks similar, but if you were ever
called on to do the real thing,
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you would be categorically fucked.
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Now, that farmer looks pretty much like
the stereotypical one
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in most peoples minds-a white guy in
overalls on a tractor.
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Its a trope drawn straight from
childrens picture books,
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where farmers always seem to be a white
man with some straw in his mouth
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whos holding an adorable little piglet
that, while the book skips over it,
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he does eventually kill and eat.
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But while some farmers do indeed look
like that,
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many of the people doing some of the
hardest work on farms-
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hired farm laborers-do not.
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There are roughly one and a half
million hired farmworkers in the U.S.,
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mostly crop workers.
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And government estimates indicate that
most of those are foreign-born.
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And among them, the majority are
undocumented.
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And this has been an open secret for
years now-
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just watch this interview with a farm
owner from 2009 quickly take a turn.
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{\an8}How many guys do you employ?
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{\an8}I have 22 full-time employees.
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{\an8}Are most of them Latino guys,
or are they-
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{\an8}100%.
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{\an8}These guys citizens?
Residents?
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{\an8}They all are legal.
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{\an8}- How do you know that?
- Cut the camera.
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We talked off-camera and a few minutes
later,
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Myers allowed us to resume the
interview.
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The legal documentation that they
presented to me is-they are legal.
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Oh! Oh, they are, are they?
Ive gotta say,
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thats not a particularly convincing
bit of misdirection there.
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Cover-wise, its about as effective as
a camouflage outfit
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that just says not a guy on it.
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The truth is,
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farms depend heavily on foreign-born
workers to do harvesting and picking,
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as many crops are too delicate
to be mechanized.
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That is why most fruits and vegetables
are still harvested by hand.
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And by and large,
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American citizens have shown very
little interest in doing that.
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In fact, when Washington State spent
thousands on an advertising campaign
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to find U.S. farmworkers in 2021,
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it resulted in one job referral and
zero hires.
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But over the past decade and a half,
changes in immigration policy
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and enforcement have made it
much more difficult for farmers
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to find workers-forcing some extreme
choices.
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6,000 people showed up on a Saturday
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for the chance
to pick some free veggies.
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The farmer whose family owns the field,
had been sleepless for days,
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and getting ever more agitated on
TikTok.
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{\an8}I need this video to go out for people
to see it
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{\an8}and understand the ramifications
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of whats going on at the border,
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and the lack of labor that we have in
this country.
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Agitated that he couldnt hire enough
people to pick the asparagus crop,
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some $180,000 worth.
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So, instead of throwing it away, he
gave it away.
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- Do you guys like eating asparagus?
- No.
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No. Yes.
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Okay, that third girl is clearly torn
there
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between a child's natural hatred of
asparagus
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and their natural love of disagreeing
with siblings.
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Also, Im a little embarrassed to
admit,
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I didn't know that's what a field of
asparagus looks like.
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You're telling me it doesn't grow
together in a nice little bunch?
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It just sticks out of the ground
individually
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like a big field of body hair?
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Tell me that doesn't look like you put
the Jolly Green Giant's happy trail
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under a microscope. I'm mad!
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The point is, without access to labor,
crops just rot in the field.
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It's probably why farmworkers were
categorized as essential
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by the Department of Homeland Security
during the pandemic.
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And yet, while we claim they're
essential,
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we sure don't treat them like it.
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Farmworkers are among our lowest-paid
workers,
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making on average in the range of 20 to
$25,000 a year.
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And they're often
subjected to dangerous environments.
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During the California wildfire season,
you may have seen videos of
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farmworkers toiling in the
foreground of a raging fire.
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And even when their workplace isn't
actively burning to the ground,
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they will tell you, their work can
sometimes feel pretty dehumanizing.
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One of the most difficult things is
just to come to a realization,
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{\an8}how little you mean
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to the people that-
that you are working for.
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{\an8}You dont officially start getting paid
until your first bucket is filled.
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If you fall behind, you have to run to
try and catch up.
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A lot of people cant stand it because
its so hot.
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{\an8}Sometimes you could feel the breeze
from the pesticide
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they were spraying over there.
It felt good.
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That is pretty brutal.
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Although appreciating the cooling air
from the pesticides
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is some legendary glass half full
thinking.
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Sure, it's hard work, but the poisoned
breeze is nice.
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So, it kind of balances out.
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The way our farm labor system works is
deeply exploitative.
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But the thing is, that is very much by
design.
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So, tonight let's talk about
farmworkers: the conditions they face,
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how we've failed to protect them, and
what we can do going forward.
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And let's start by acknowledging the
history of farm work in America
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has always been rooted in exploitation.
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From its origins in slavery, to its
later evolution into sharecropping.
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But what you might not know is that
during the New Deal,
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as laws were passed to establish some
bedrock labor protections,
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farmworkers were repeatedly and
specifically excluded from them.
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So, for instance,
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the 1935 law which protected employees'
rights to join unions,
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explicitly stated that the term
employee shall not include
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any individual employed as an
agricultural laborer.
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And the 1938 law, which created a
federal minimum wage and overtime,
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again, carved out an exception
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so those provisions shall not apply
to anyone employed in agriculture.
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Which is pretty insulting, isnt it?
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It's like announcing your company's new
anti-sexual-harassment policy
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but clarifying that none of it protects
Jeff.
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Jeff is exempt, so, slap his ass, twist
his nips, we don't care.
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It is open season on Jeff.
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And make no mistake-the reasons for
that were explicitly racist.
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One representative even warned during
debate on the minimum wage bill that,
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You cannot put the Negro and the white
man on the same basis
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and get away with it.
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That representative?
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It was actually Tucker Carlson.
It turns out he's a highlander.
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Now, since then, the labor force has
changed.
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Black Am-Americans left the
sharecropping system
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during the Great Migration,
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and farmers increasingly came to rely
on laborers from Mexico
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and other Central American nations.
And over the years,
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leaders like Cesar Chavez and Dolores
Huerta formed the United Farm Workers
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and won some significant gains.
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The federal minimum wage was expanded
to include farmworkers in 1978.
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And some states do now provide at least
some access to overtime pay
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and collective bargaining.
But the fact is,
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farmworkers are still excluded
from a lot of basic labor protections-
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including this major one.
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The child labor law in the U.S. is
pretty good,
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{\an8}except when it comes to agriculture.
And then it has a big gaping hole.
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U.S. law allows children to work in
agriculture at far younger ages
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for unlimited hours outside of school
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in much more dangerous conditions than
any other sector.
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So, a child can work perfectly legally
for any farmer at age 12.
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That child couldn't work serving the
food that
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he can work 10, 12, 14 hours picking.
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Yeah, and that is absurd.
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And look, I'm not saying working in a
restaurant isn't tough,
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anyone who thinks otherwise should be
forced to serve an imperfect omelet
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to James Corden. But it's clearly not
the same thing, is it?
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And this exception isn't just to let
kids work on their own families' farms.
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There are hired children working fields
all across America, picking our food.
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Because while most jobs are off-limits
to kids under 14,
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agricultural employers may even hire
children younger than 12
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to work on small farms with written
parental consent.
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And it should probably go without
saying,
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but this work can be dangerous for
kids-just listen to this girl,
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who started working in tobacco fields
when she was only 12,
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describe her first day on the job.
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{\an8}I felt really lightheaded and dizzy,
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and I wanted to go get a cup of water
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and I could not see to where the truck
was that contained the water.
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And I was looking for my mom and I
couldn't find my mom.
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Eventually, I just fell.
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You don't really think about a
childhood, like,
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Ive never really thought that a child
is really supposed to-
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a 12-year-old
is supposed to have fun, exactly.
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I always thought that you were supposed
to work.
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That is terrible.
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Although, while a 12-year- old under no
circumstances
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should be fainting
in a field, I will say,
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it is a bit of a stretch to say that a
12-year-old is supposed to have fun.
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Because fundamentally,
they are still 12.
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This is just around the corner for
them.
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You're a hormonal ticking time bomb at
that age.
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Honestly, the closest thing to fun
that's available to you at 12
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is going to the mall by yourself for
the first time to kind of walk around,
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I guess, since you don't really have
any money except for like
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a smoothie or something if you want to
get a smoothie or whatever.
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The lack of laws applying to
farmworkers
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has left them facing truly dangerous
conditions.
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Agricultural workers suffer fatal
on-the-job injuries
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at a rate far higher than police
officers.
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And more than twice the rate of
construction workers. Which is wild.
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Because it's one thing to look up at a
tall building and shudder
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thinking about the physical risk it
must have taken
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to put a pane of glass up that high.
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But it feels ridiculous to feel the
same way
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about a beet and goat cheese salad.
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Farmworkers face exposure to extreme
heat, dangerous machinery,
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unsafe air quality, and impromptu
pesticide showers.
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And some farm owners can be abusive
employers.
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Just take this story from a few years
ago.
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{\an8}It's quiet but cloudy at EDS Schoenborn
Orchard today.
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A loudmouth...
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But not on this day.
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A punk mother...
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It was hot.
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If a coward...
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The voice on tape, Travis Schoenborn,
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{\an8}the son of farm owners David and
Valerie Schoenborn.
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{\an8}He was angry at one of the workers
and let it be known in front of others.
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{\an8}Tell him to pack his god...
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{\an8}And get the... out of here
while he still can.
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{\an8}He is not... with me
or my mother at all.
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Holy shit, that was about 95% bleeps.
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And trust local news to always find a
diplomatic way to describe things.
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He was angry and let it be known in
front of others.
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Sure, thats not technically untrue.
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But Id have gone with the more
accurate description,
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He lost his fucking shit at an apple
farm.
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A farm, remember, that his parents
owned-
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and they had a truly special response
when confronted with that video.
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{\an8}They blame the migrant worker alleged
victim in this case
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{\an8}and accuse him of threatening Valerie
and being obscene.
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{\an8}What did he do to threaten you?
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{\an8}He called me a name in Spanish,
I'm not repeating it.
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{\an8}There was no outright apology.
Instead, this.
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{\an8}First of all, they werent Black,
they were Mexicans,
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{\an8}so I don't know why
he called them the N-word.
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{\an8}I just want to give you a chance
to be clear and respond.
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{\an8}Did you hear him referring
to people as...?
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{\an8}We dont have-we dont have no work
here that I know of.
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Oh, okay, okay, okay, okay, here's the
thing.
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Well, clearly, there are 9,000 things
there, but here is just one of them:
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I bet you heard her say,
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They were Mexican so I'm not sure why
he called them the N-word and thought,
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Wow, that is the wildest shit anybody
in this marriage
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is going to say in the next 15
seconds, and then you were dead wrong.
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Also, I just want to point out the
inconsistency between
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having a problem with saying a vague,
unknown word in Spanish
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and having no problem at all saying an
extremely specific one in English.
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I won't repeat this Spanish word
because it's offensive,
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but if you talk to my husband he'll say
the N-word in about four seconds.
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Anyway, I raised my son better than to
use slurs incorrectly.
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Now, in that particular case,
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a worker caught that tirade on video
and gave it to migrant legal aid.
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And the son later pled guilty to, of
all things, disturbing the peace.
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But even that pathetic level of
accountability is extremely rare.
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And look, clearly, not all farmers are
abusive employers.
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But to the extent that any want to be,
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there can be shockingly little to stop
them.
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Because even when labor laws do apply
to agricultural workers,
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there is almost no way to enforce them.
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Take California, the most productive
agricultural state in the nation.
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The agency responsible for monitoring
workplace safety there
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is so understaffed that it currently
has roughly
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one field inspector available for every
90,000 workers,
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with only a handful of those inspectors
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speaking any language other than
English.
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And even when there are consequences,
they can be laughable.
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After two farmworkers in Idaho
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drowned in pits of cow manure
at dairy operations,
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OSHA imposed fines of just $5,000 for
each of the mens deaths.
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Which is nothing.
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If an employee drowns in the
universally-agreed-upon
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worst thing to drown in,
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that should cost their employer a lot
more than a fifth of a Hyundai Sonata.
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And that's not even getting into the
fact that some farms
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limit their liability by using so-
called farm labor contractors,
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who hire workers and then contract them
out,
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and who've been found to be the worst
violators of employment law
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in agriculture.
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Some of them have confiscated workers'
passports, charged them
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if they wanted to quit their jobs, or
threatened them with deportation.
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So, at every turn, this is an
environment where vulnerable workers
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00:23:27,160 --> 00:23:30,235
can understandably feel reluctant
to come forward.
453
00:23:30,319 --> 00:23:33,636
Take sexual harassment and assault,
which farmworkers say is a big problem,
454
00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:37,556
and yet, just watch how this head of a
farm owners trade group
455
00:23:37,640 --> 00:23:39,995
responds when asked about it.
456
00:23:40,079 --> 00:23:42,156
You know Dolores Huerta, you know who
she is.
457
00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:43,675
Yes.
458
00:23:43,759 --> 00:23:46,109
- Can I read you something she said?
- Oh, please.
459
00:23:46,119 --> 00:23:48,396
I'd like to hear her comment.
460
00:23:48,480 --> 00:23:52,715
Okay. She says that this sexual
harassment that we're talking about
461
00:23:52,799 --> 00:23:54,796
is an epidemic in the fields.
462
00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:56,955
{\an8}Dolores Huerta, bring me those cases.
463
00:23:57,039 --> 00:24:01,316
{\an8}Dolores Huerta, go have your UFW
go picket the grower
464
00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:03,916
if all these cases have been going on.
465
00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:06,955
If our growers know theres a problem,
were gonna deal with it.
466
00:24:07,039 --> 00:24:09,995
Why didn't you go to the grower?
And tell me that,
467
00:24:10,079 --> 00:24:13,356
Because, well, we were fearful for
their jobs and their lives.
468
00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:15,079
No, that's a poor excuse.
469
00:24:15,680 --> 00:24:19,316
Yeah, is it, though? Is it?
Cause Ive got to say,
470
00:24:19,400 --> 00:24:22,316
I can believe people aren't bringing
harassment cases to growers,
471
00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:25,556
if they're acting anything like he just
did. After all,
472
00:24:25,640 --> 00:24:29,995
merely hearing the name Dolores Huerta
sent him into a visible rage,
473
00:24:30,079 --> 00:24:33,916
so I have to imagine that off-camera
he's even more of a teddy bear.
474
00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:35,076
And at this point, you might be
thinking,
475
00:24:35,160 --> 00:24:39,275
Perhaps one way to help workers would
be to remove their fear of deportation
476
00:24:39,359 --> 00:24:42,636
and create a system where
they can come into this country legally.
477
00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:45,275
Well, we actually did that.
But unfortunately,
478
00:24:45,359 --> 00:24:49,275
the way we did it left massive gaps for
bad actors to operate in.
479
00:24:49,359 --> 00:24:52,995
Back in 1986, we created what's known
as the H-2A visa program.
480
00:24:53,079 --> 00:24:54,479
It allows migrant workers to
481
00:24:54,519 --> 00:24:58,755
legally enter the country temporarily
for agricultural work.
482
00:24:58,839 --> 00:25:01,089
For years, employers shied away from
using it,
483
00:25:01,119 --> 00:25:04,116
because it was cheaper and easier to
simply hire undocumented workers.
484
00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:06,515
But as it's become harder to find them,
485
00:25:06,599 --> 00:25:09,316
the use of H-2A has been ramped up
considerably.
486
00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:11,156
In fact, the number of H-2A positions
487
00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:14,396
has increased more than sevenfold in
the past 17 years.
488
00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:16,636
Basically, the program's been around
since the 80s,
489
00:25:16,720 --> 00:25:19,675
was on the backburner until a few years
ago, and now it's extremely popular.
490
00:25:19,759 --> 00:25:23,876
Think of it as the Kieran Culkin of the
agricultural world.
491
00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:27,275
And, in principle, H-2A does sound
good.
492
00:25:27,359 --> 00:25:30,675
More farmworkers get temporary legal
status, which, you'd assume,
493
00:25:30,759 --> 00:25:34,435
would make them feel safer. But sadly,
that just hasn't been the case.
494
00:25:34,519 --> 00:25:37,919
For one thing, like many work visas,
these are tied to your employer,
495
00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:41,396
so if you lose your job, you also lose
your right to be in the country,
496
00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:44,596
causing a massive power imbalance.
And given that imbalance,
497
00:25:44,680 --> 00:25:47,195
it is no surprise that many employers
feel comfortable
498
00:25:47,279 --> 00:25:51,029
skirting the protections that workers
are supposed to receive. For instance,
499
00:25:51,079 --> 00:25:55,235
under the law, employers must provide
housing for their H-2A workers.
500
00:25:55,319 --> 00:25:58,636
But in practice, the conditions can be
far below what the program requires,
501
00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:01,079
as this man quickly found out.
502
00:26:02,119 --> 00:26:05,995
The house where we lived, where Manuel
brought us to, was very old.
503
00:26:06,079 --> 00:26:10,195
It had spiders, cockroaches, and
the bathrooms didnt work.
504
00:26:10,279 --> 00:26:13,116
The house was gross. It was very dirty.
505
00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:16,116
You could clearly tell that the house
was abandoned for a long time
506
00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:17,675
and Manuel brought us there.
507
00:26:17,759 --> 00:26:21,796
The house didnt have heat, and the
temperature hit six degrees Celsius.
508
00:26:21,880 --> 00:26:24,916
And four of my co-workers and I had to
sleep outside.
509
00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:27,200
We felt like we were on the border of
death.
510
00:26:27,720 --> 00:26:29,316
That is horrific.
511
00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:33,435
No one would see that and say, That is
a good place for people to live.
512
00:26:33,519 --> 00:26:38,195
They'd maybe say, That's a nice spot
for ghosts to throw up," but that's it.
513
00:26:38,279 --> 00:26:39,529
And that's not a one-off.
514
00:26:39,599 --> 00:26:42,796
A DOL investigation a few years back
found that one labor contractor
515
00:26:42,880 --> 00:26:45,596
housed H-2A workers
in an old county jail
516
00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:49,035
that had recently served as the
community's Halloween haunted house.
517
00:26:49,119 --> 00:26:51,316
This is the kitchen, which,
you can see,
518
00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:54,796
still had fake blood on
the refrigerators and the floor.
519
00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:56,156
And workers clearly
520
00:26:56,240 --> 00:26:59,876
shouldn't be forced to sleep around a
bunch of spooky decorations.
521
00:26:59,960 --> 00:27:03,995
Even people who work at Spirit
Halloween don't sleep in the store.
522
00:27:04,079 --> 00:27:05,356
Except, of course, for Dennis,
523
00:27:05,440 --> 00:27:08,640
but he's made it very clear that that
is a sex thing.
524
00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:12,836
But poor living accommodations are just
the tip of the iceberg here.
525
00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:15,995
In 2021, the DOJ launched a massive
indictment
526
00:27:16,079 --> 00:27:18,556
involving the treatment
of H-2A workers on Georgia farms,
527
00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:21,156
and the details are appalling.
528
00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:24,116
{\an8}Prosecutors calling it
modern-day slavery.
529
00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:25,916
{\an8}In the fields of southern Georgia,
530
00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:29,316
{\an8}years' worth of damning, horrific
allegations.
531
00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:33,235
{\an8}Victims allegedly forced to live in
cramped, dirty trailers
532
00:27:33,319 --> 00:27:35,836
{\an8}with raw sewage
leaking into the trailers,
533
00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:37,755
{\an8}threatened them with deportation,
534
00:27:37,839 --> 00:27:41,556
{\an8}and detained them in a work camp
surrounded by an electric fence.
535
00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:46,356
{\an8}And in 2018, 30 individuals allegedly
sold
536
00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:51,720
{\an8}to another man in Indiana
for $21,481 dollars.
537
00:27:52,359 --> 00:27:56,316
Wow. You know, at times, some people
can be quick to play the
538
00:27:56,400 --> 00:28:00,035
this is slavery card, whether you're
a teenager asked to mow the lawn,
539
00:28:00,119 --> 00:28:02,519
or an office worker who has to come in
on Sunday.
540
00:28:02,599 --> 00:28:04,596
But as frustrating as those situations
can be,
541
00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:07,995
neither involves being sold in bulk to
a man in Indiana.
542
00:28:08,079 --> 00:28:10,796
Because that is actual fucking slavery.
543
00:28:10,880 --> 00:28:12,955
This case is ongoing, but the
indictment asserts that
544
00:28:13,039 --> 00:28:15,356
this was a massive operation, which
sought visas for
545
00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:19,556
over 71,000 foreign workers to
harvest onions and other crops.
546
00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:22,076
And the government says that at least
two died
547
00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:24,316
as a result of the workplace conditions
there.
548
00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:27,675
And while I am glad that action was
eventually taken, I will say,
549
00:28:27,759 --> 00:28:29,435
for a list of charges this sinister,
550
00:28:29,519 --> 00:28:33,356
the name they chose could have used
some work.
551
00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:37,396
{\an8}A new 54-page indictment by the U.S.
Department of Justice
552
00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:42,880
{\an8}charging 24 individuals as part of what
it calls Operation Blooming Onion.
553
00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:47,755
Okay, okay, just pour one out for the
social media person at
554
00:28:47,839 --> 00:28:51,076
Outback Steakhouse who saw Blooming
Onion trending on Twitter
555
00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:53,275
and thought their job got easier for
two seconds
556
00:28:53,359 --> 00:28:57,515
before realizing it actually just got a
lot fucking harder.
557
00:28:57,599 --> 00:29:00,235
And at this point, Ive told you about
everything from child labor
558
00:29:00,319 --> 00:29:03,796
to workers drowning in manure to the
sale of human beings,
559
00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:06,675
so you're hopefully wondering, how do
we fix this?
560
00:29:06,759 --> 00:29:09,715
Well, farmworkers have been organizing
to address some of these issues
561
00:29:09,799 --> 00:29:10,796
for years now.
562
00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:13,596
Take what happened in Immokalee,
Florida. As recently as a decade ago,
563
00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:15,680
the tomato fields there were being
called
564
00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:18,636
ground zero for modern-day slavery.
565
00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:20,955
But a group called the Coalition of
Immokalee Workers launched
566
00:29:21,039 --> 00:29:24,435
a campaign to improve conditions,
pressuring not just farmers,
567
00:29:24,519 --> 00:29:27,755
but the big name businesses that relied
on their produce.
568
00:29:27,839 --> 00:29:29,035
In 2005,
569
00:29:29,119 --> 00:29:34,359
Taco Bell became the first big buyer to
sign on to the CIWs Fair Food Program.
570
00:29:35,119 --> 00:29:38,636
Buyers agree to pay an extra penny per
pound for tomato,
571
00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:40,195
money that goes to workers,
572
00:29:40,279 --> 00:29:44,515
and buyers only do business with
participating Florida farmers.
573
00:29:44,599 --> 00:29:48,235
More than a dozen restaurant chains and
retailers have signed on,
574
00:29:48,319 --> 00:29:51,596
including McDonalds, Chipotle,
Trader Joes,
575
00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:56,319
and last year Walmart,
which sells 20% of Americas tomatoes.
576
00:29:56,920 --> 00:30:00,715
Wow, those are some massive brands
that you can now, surprisingly,
577
00:30:00,799 --> 00:30:05,235
feel kind of okay about in this one
very narrow way.
578
00:30:05,319 --> 00:30:07,396
Is Walmart a good company overall?
579
00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:10,836
It's not up for me to say, but let's
say, no, it's absolutely terrible.
580
00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:13,755
But is it a good company regarding
the tomatoes
581
00:30:13,839 --> 00:30:15,916
it sells from Florida specifically?
Sure.
582
00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:20,440
On that one issue, they have my full,
Florida-tomato-specific support.
583
00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:24,076
Which is frankly more than I can say
for Wendys, Kroger and Publix,
584
00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:26,960
who, amazingly, have yet to sign on.
So fuck them.
585
00:30:27,559 --> 00:30:29,279
- Fuck them!
- Exactly.
586
00:30:30,279 --> 00:30:33,035
Under-under the Fair Food Program,
587
00:30:33,119 --> 00:30:36,435
signatories agreed to purchase only
from growers
588
00:30:36,519 --> 00:30:40,035
who implemented a human rights-based
code of conduct on their farms.
589
00:30:40,119 --> 00:30:42,636
It also covers a 24/7 complaint line
for workers, and,
590
00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:45,470
perhaps most importantly,
an independent regulatory body
591
00:30:45,519 --> 00:30:48,675
that conducts audits in which they
interview at least half the workforce.
592
00:30:48,759 --> 00:30:50,515
And it's been a success.
593
00:30:50,599 --> 00:30:55,316
The vast majority of tomato harvesters
in Florida have joined the program,
594
00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:57,836
raising wages for tens of thousands of
workers.
595
00:30:57,920 --> 00:31:01,220
And the program is now expanding into
other crops and other states.
596
00:31:01,279 --> 00:31:05,715
But it clearly shouldn't just be on
farmworkers to fight for a decent life.
597
00:31:05,799 --> 00:31:08,275
We need to make sure that they are at
least protected
598
00:31:08,359 --> 00:31:10,435
by the same labor laws
that the rest of us enjoy,
599
00:31:10,519 --> 00:31:13,755
and make sure that those laws are
actually enforced.
600
00:31:13,839 --> 00:31:16,796
And I would argue that we also need to
retool the H-2A program
601
00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:20,076
and ensure that its participants,
and ideally all farmworkers,
602
00:31:20,160 --> 00:31:21,755
have a potential path to citizenship.
603
00:31:21,839 --> 00:31:24,715
Because after working so hard to feed
this country,
604
00:31:24,799 --> 00:31:26,636
frankly,
they deserve one.
605
00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:30,275
After all, you made me a citizen and
I haven't fed you once.
606
00:31:30,359 --> 00:31:31,876
I know-I know that you think I have,
607
00:31:31,960 --> 00:31:35,715
but that's Jamie Oliver, and we are
different people.
608
00:31:35,799 --> 00:31:40,156
Look, farmworkers provide this country
with our most basic necessity,
609
00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:43,995
and in return, we act like they either
don't matter or don't exist.
610
00:31:44,079 --> 00:31:48,195
The message that we've sent to them
has consistently been you don't count.
611
00:31:48,279 --> 00:31:51,955
And until we fix our broken system,
the very least we can do
612
00:31:52,039 --> 00:31:55,439
is fix our farming simulator games
so that everyone is forced to have
613
00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:58,156
a much more accurate sense of what the
people who grow their food
614
00:31:58,240 --> 00:32:00,119
are actually up against.
615
00:32:01,359 --> 00:32:06,076
Welcome to the new Farming Simulator
2023.
616
00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:08,116
All your favorite features are back.
617
00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:09,995
Beautiful vistas,
618
00:32:10,079 --> 00:32:12,916
tough working tractors,
and, of course,
619
00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:15,475
animal husbandry.
620
00:32:15,559 --> 00:32:17,836
But this year,
we're also expanding
621
00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:21,876
to include the parts of farming most
people don't like to think about:
622
00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:24,035
hired farmworkers.
623
00:32:24,119 --> 00:32:26,955
We're bringing cutting-edge graphics
and gameplay
624
00:32:27,039 --> 00:32:29,955
to the most ignored aspect
of agriculture.
625
00:32:30,039 --> 00:32:33,675
You'll be able to choose between
hiring undocumented workers
626
00:32:33,759 --> 00:32:36,035
with no protections against abuse,
627
00:32:36,119 --> 00:32:38,356
or the legal version of that.
628
00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:41,356
You can customize their hair,
their clothes-
629
00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:44,356
even choose from a surprising range of
ages,
630
00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:49,035
from older to younger to dear god,
how on earth is this legal?
631
00:32:49,119 --> 00:32:52,596
We've also got a brand-new assortment
of maps,
632
00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:56,356
from Midwestern fields to vast
asparagus taints,
633
00:32:56,440 --> 00:32:59,475
to literally the middle of a raging
wildfire.
634
00:32:59,559 --> 00:33:01,955
And if your workers need a pep talk,
635
00:33:02,039 --> 00:33:05,796
you can help them out with our new
motivational mini-game.
636
00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:07,715
You little (censored)!
637
00:33:07,799 --> 00:33:10,316
I will... you in every
638
00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:13,515
if you say one more word against
my sister,
639
00:33:13,599 --> 00:33:16,675
my dad, or my mother!
640
00:33:16,759 --> 00:33:18,396
Now get back to work!
641
00:33:18,480 --> 00:33:21,435
Your odds of getting caught are
practically zero.
642
00:33:21,519 --> 00:33:23,035
Oh, shit.
643
00:33:23,119 --> 00:33:25,556
You can also use our new housing tool
644
00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:30,396
to design H-2A compliant-ish housing
for your workers.
645
00:33:30,480 --> 00:33:32,955
The less you spend, the more you save.
646
00:33:33,039 --> 00:33:37,156
And all of this is to put food on the
table of people
647
00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:40,596
who will never once think about how it
got there.
648
00:33:40,680 --> 00:33:41,755
Just remember,
649
00:33:41,839 --> 00:33:44,475
the real secret to mastering farming
650
00:33:44,559 --> 00:33:47,876
is being the master of other people.
651
00:33:47,960 --> 00:33:50,235
Wait, not that.
652
00:33:50,319 --> 00:33:52,519
I guess kind of that.
653
00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:55,400
Farming Simulator 2023.
654
00:33:56,400 --> 00:33:58,435
Rated Not Okay for Anyone.
655
00:33:58,519 --> 00:34:00,195
That's our show,
thanks so much for watching.
656
00:34:00,279 --> 00:34:02,519
Well see you next week, good night!
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