John Oliver discusses the conditions farmworkers face, how we’ve failed to protect them, and the Jolly Green Giant’s body hair.
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John Oliver discusses the conditions farmworkers face, how we’ve failed to protect them, and the Jolly Green Giant’s body hair.
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0:08 , I’m sorry. Our metaphors for what?
ReplyDo you believe in horseshoe theory?
Based.
13:36 who fucking laughed
ReplyAll the moral finger pointing at the kafala system in the middle east and the conditions of workers in Qatar while doing worse on their own back yard.
These hypocritical Americans
Reply6:39 what happened there with the canned laughter?
ReplyThat stuffs definetely slavery, crossed with concentration camps.
ReplyA follow up of what crops are, can, and cannot currently be gathered by machine harvesters or assistance would be a good video.
ReplyPrepare for this situation to get worse, sadly. As climate change makes yields lower and more expensive the race to meet the demand will be even harsher. No politician will risk making food less affordable for his voters.
ReplyBecause babysitting so expensive, we as kids would simply go along with our parents, so at 3 or 4 i started helping as much as i could
ReplyFunny how agriculture is the thing that got us to where we are as a species but we’re still fucking it up somehow.
That’s some cosmic irony.
ReplyBut John, you have fed us! Remember the giant sheet cake in the Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow episode?
ReplyAnd the USA is the next host of the WC. Where are the boycott WC 2026 banners?
ReplyWhat is truly absurd is that many of these farm laborers can not afford the same food that they pick
ReplyEvery now and then it hits me how fucked up it is that some of the groseries I buy are marked with “fair trade” and some fucking aren’t, wth..
ReplyIt’s shocking how long this has been such a well-known thing that’s barely gotten any better. It’s good to see some of those big names on the case of tomatoes from Florida, some of them are contract catering companies. That there are so many missing, that it seems to be just one fruit, and that it’s one state… is abysmal. I get that it seems to be expanding into other crops and states, but that doesn’t mean it will be a success or even happen.
ReplyWhat I find disturbingly ?ironic, is how it seems that some of those same types of workers have had much more improvements in their native countries in a few crops like coffee, cocoa, tea, bananas etc , under the Fair Trade banner and similar partnerships.
When I was like 12 or 13, back in the 90’s, my first job was “corn detasseling” for $4.25 an hour. We got dirty looks from the Latino workers in the next field over. I got fired for being too slow because of my asthma.
ReplyVictim blaming, not learning Spanish, not willing to pay for work, nor provide shelter and food and water for workers….yeah…not cool at all. You’d think they’d progress in treatment of laborers since the late 1800s, but here we are–still stuck in the 1800s.
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