April 15, 2005
Cornell Students Learn About Who Puts the Food on Their Tables
While students at Cornell University are hunched over their books, people not far away are bent over row upon row of grapevines, or picking apples or milking cows. But Cornell students generally know little about the workers who put the food on their tables, and who often live and toil in extreme poverty.
Students in the university's undergraduate seminar, "Farmworkers," get a look at the lives of New York's estimated 47,000 farm laborers, who are among 1.5 million to 2.5 million in
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