US agriculture

Congress and White House decided to turn their back, but child labor on U.S. farms hasn't disappeared

cmonforton | August 8, 2012

The NBC News affiliate in California's Bay Area released last week a multi-part investigative series entitled "Children in the field: American kids pick your food."  The anchorwoman introducing the first segment said: "They are too young to drive, work in an office, or even a local fast food joint, but thousands of them work long hours in brutal conditions to make sure we eat well, and on the cheap." Investigative reporter Stephen Stock added: "We talked to children who said they started working the fields when they were 8, 10 and 11 years old.  While most of us had jobs when we were teens,…