U.S. Food Supply Not Safe Without Immigration Reform, Report Finds
“Workers growing and processing America’s food face a myriad of health risks, including ‘pesticide exposure, injuries, poor air quality, contact with animal waste, exposure to antibiotic resistant bacteria, and exposure to novel strains of the flu virus,’ the report concluded. They also suffer from poor housing conditions, limited access to healthcare, poverty and uncertainty regarding their status in the U.S. All of these factors jeopardize ‘the resiliency of the food system by maintaining an unstable and vulnerable workforce, which may threaten the supply and safety of food,’ the report states.”