Farmworker Food Insecurity

 In Sandy Brown and Christian Getz's writing: Farmworker Food Insecurity and the Production of Hunger in California, a paradox is brought up which seems to be the theme that most points of the paper are based around where: Mexican farmworkers in California generate a majority of the produce for the populace yet can't afford the same food that they generate, and the majority of crop growers in the state are food insecure. The paper does touch on the fact that this is not a phenomenon only seen in California but the entire country as a whole. Cezar Chavez, head of the United Farm Workers is quoted stating " The food that overflows our market shelves and fills our tables is harvested by men, women, and children who cannot satisfy their own hunger." A study has shown that the largest indicator of devalued positions in the agricultural business over the years is seen by the twenty to twenty-five percent fall of wages over time between 1975 and 1995. While the study ends there the current declining situation for farmers has not. Poverty and the irony of farmworkers not being able to afford the crops that they grow is still prevalent today and continues to be a major issue which could lead to the collapse of the agricultural business all together and a major food crisis in the United States shortly following. It is imperative that wages for farmers be increased to match inflation across the country.