The Real Cost of Food: Teenage California Farmworker Dies From Lack of Water

From the Sacremento Bee: 17-year old Maria Isabel Vasquez Jimenez died May 16 from heat-related causes after being allowed only one water break while working in 95 degree heat. This case is just an extreme example of the kind of abuse and neglect that our industrial food economy is based on. Our thoughts go out to her family.