Reading Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies by Seth Holmes
Anthropologist Seth Holmes Many people do not stop to consider the fruits and vegetables they eat every day and where they come from. Even as someone who works around fruit for five to eight hours a day, I myself have not considered the places that our produce comes from. And I don't think other people really think about it either. Because of this, most people do not know of the hard labor and intense conditions that farmworkers face to get this produce to Americans all over the country. Though people do not realize it, the fruits and vegetables that we eat every day are a result of sacrifices made by migrant farmworkers. In his book, Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies , Anthropologist Seth Holmes goes in depth about these sacrifices and conditions that migrant farmworkers face in their daily lives. The purpose of his book is to raise awareness for the problems that migrant farmworkers face, and to do so, Holmes puts himself in their shoes and works in fields to experience firsthand