{"id":8909,"date":"2014-10-05T00:52:17","date_gmt":"2014-10-05T04:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=8909"},"modified":"2014-10-05T00:52:17","modified_gmt":"2014-10-05T04:52:17","slug":"five-awful-things-i-learned-as-a-child-laborer-in-the-usa-cracked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2014\/10\/five-awful-things-i-learned-as-a-child-laborer-in-the-usa-cracked.html","title":{"rendered":"“Five Awful Things I Learned as a Child Laborer in the USA”: Cracked"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

continues to tell hidden stories:<\/p>\n

We all love food, because it\u2019s delicious and without it we\u2019d all die horribly. We also love the fact that we really don\u2019t have to worry where said food came from beyond \u201cthe store\u201d or, if you think about it a little harder, \u201cthe ground.\u201d So what if we were to tell you our favorite foodstuffs are being harvested by tens of thousands of exploited children? This isn\u2019t some shady underground child labor ring run by the mafia, either \u2014 it\u2019s 100-percent legal in almost every state of the union.<\/p>\n

We sat down with Norma Flores, who sweated and toiled in the fields while her peers spent their time doing homework and having childhoods. Here\u2019s what she told us about the shockingly modern face of backbreaking child labor \u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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continues to tell hidden stories: We all love food, because it\u2019s delicious and without it we\u2019d all die horribly. We also love the fact that we really don\u2019t have to worry where said food came from beyond \u201cthe store\u201d or, if you think about it a little harder, \u201cthe ground.\u201d So what if we were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[17,77,163,51],"class_list":["post-8909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-children-will-listen","tag-prepare-for-life-in-capitalist-america-play-class-struggle-the-game","tag-radix-malorum-est-cupiditas","tag-so-far-from-god-so-close-to-the-united-states"],"yoast_head":"\n"Five Awful Things I Learned as a Child Laborer in the USA": Cracked<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"continues to tell hidden stories: We all love food, because it's delicious and without it we'd all die horribly. 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