FARM WORKER INSECURITY

Brown & Getz focal point is the farm worker's food insecurity in the California agricultural business. They state that the vast and significant labor force that produces for the largest state are among the most likely food insecure group. This crucial labor force is seemly invisible to the majority of large businesses and corporations, which rely on this labor, for their own sustenance.

Farm labor food insecurity and hunger is not identified by traditionally lower wages or individual obstacles but a structural outcome of the political economy of US agribusiness. 

The high concentration of Mexican/Hispanic migrants into the Cali Agri business labor show a higher rate of food insecurity.  Contrasting the same labor used to feed our nation showing an inability to afford enough food for the individual laborer and their families! These insecurities are not the laborer's personal choices but structural causes contributing factors. It includes low and /or stagnant wages, seasonal demands and immigration limitations. Corporations influence of Neoliberal trade policies with capitalistic agribusiness that emphasis on lower production costs over worker welfare.

A condition of food insecurity creates a situation enticing workers to migrate find themselves still facing poor access to food. California's agriculture exasperates insecurities with weakening of collective action and immigration policies that hinder the workers' rights and mobilities.  Global economic policies place limitations against improvement. Policies improving wages, labor rights and immigrant protection will help improve this discrepancy.

I have seen the high Hispanic labor forces in Ruiz Foods in Fresno CA and Georgio Mushroom in Blandon, PA, and the Somalian labor in Hormel plants in MN.  Corporations demand this type of labor, are they willing to contribute to their everyday welfare?