Thank you, Mr. Magliano, for this wonderful article about these farms and workers. My heart breaks for them when I see them in the fields in extreme heat and doing back-breaking work hour after hour. I harvest my own food during the summer on a 20 acre community farm, and can usually not stay out there more than two hours in the sun, and can bend for such things as beans and spinach and strawberries for no more than 10 or 15 minutes. And we also have many vineyards near us that require very special knowledge and abilities. This work is skilled labor and should be recognized as such.  Whenever I buy picture perfect berries and other fruit, I think of the workers and the skill it takes in picking to keep them that way, yet they are getting pennies for it. 

I also thank the NCR for publishing articles such as yours. I'm so glad to have found it this year as it very closely represents my Catholic and catholic viewpoint.