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1500-2500 miles. The US is 3000 miles. Bonus points: What’s are the impacts on the food that is traveling more than halfway across the country to get to us?
What is the average miles food takes to get to our plate in the US?
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Diet and exersize
What is the greatest risk factor on mortality rates?
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2,000,000. Bonus: What are the narratives that has caused this drastic decline in agriculture?
In the 1930s there were 7,000,000 small farms. How many are there now? (10,000,000; 5,000,000; 2,000,000)
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80% of food. Bonus points: Who produces most GMO in the world?
What % of our food contains GMO (Genetically Modified Organisms)?
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4 x more supermarkets in white neighborhoods than neighborhoods of color
On average, how many more supermarkets are there in predominantly white neighborhoods compared to predominantly Black, Latino, and Southeast Asian neighborhoods?
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4% for fruits and veggies, 86%for commodity. Bonus: How does this impact you and our community?
What is % of USDA (US Department of Agriculture) subsidies (free money) that go to fruits and veggies? that goes to commodity (food not grown to eat) crops?
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In season is California. Out of season is Mexico, South and Central America
Where does majority of our fruits and vegetables come from during spring, summer, and fall? Where does it come from during the winter?
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Labor organizing: Farmworkers were excluded from the National Labor Relations Act of 1935, which protects workers acting collectively to form unions.
Minimum wage: The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA) originally excluded all farmworkers, and was amended in 1978 to mandate minimum wage for workers on large farms only. Overtime pay: The FLSA has never been amended to provide overtime for farmworkers, and only a few states have passed laws requiring it. Child labor laws: The FLSA sets 12 as the minimum age for farm work, not 16 as in other jobs. Low wages: Farmworkers’ average annual income is $11,000; for a family it is approximately $16,000.4 This makes farm work the second lowest paid job in the nation (after domestic labor).7 Piece-rate pay: Farmworkers are often paid by the bucket; in some states they earn as little as 40¢ for a bucket of tomatoes or sweet potatoes. At that rate, farmworkers have to pick around two tons of produce (125 buckets) to earn $50.8 Dangerous work: Agriculture is consistently ranked as one of the three most dangerous occupations in the United States.11 Pesticide risks: Farmworkers suffer from the highest rate of toxic chemical injuries and skin disorders of any workers in the country,12 as well as significant rates of eye injuries.11 Health concerns: Farmworkers face higher incidences than other wage-earners of heat stress, dermatitis, urinary tract infections, parasitic infections, and tuberculosis.11 Poor health of children: Children of migrant farmworkers have higher rates of pesticide exposure, malnutrition and dental disease than the general population. Children of migrant farmworkers are also less likely to be fully immunized than other children.11
List 3 conditions that Farmworkers face.
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85%. Bonus: Is this a dominant or counter narrative and why?
Small scale farmers feed how much of the world?
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