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Covid-19 stranded a North Carolina chef in Mexico. The unexpected detour...
Chef Jorge Ruiz hadn’t had a proper vacation in years. The pandemic provided an accidental opportunity to reconnect with Mexican cuisine, his heritage—leading to new directions he never anticipated....
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EPA warns an immigrant detention center to stop cleaning microwaves with...
People detained at the Northwest ICE Processing Center constantly use the facility’s microwaves to make meals. The chemicals used to clean them are giving people nosebleeds, skin rashes, and...
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Texas Governor Greg Abbott is enlisting ranchers and farmers in his...
The state’s agriculture community is caught in a push and pull between its need for workers and its desire to criminalize undocumented immigrants. For weeks, Claudia Muñoz fielded panicked phone...
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A multiracial, multigenerational labor movement led by fast-food workers has...
Since 1947, North Carolina has been a right-to-work state, making it illegal to require union membership as a condition of hiring, and prohibiting collection of union dues from workers’ wages. These...
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In North Carolina, Mountaire poultry workers say an unknown chemical is...
At a facility that processes 540,000 chickens a day, workers allege that they’re being exposed to a toxic chemical that feels like it’s “invaded your brain.” Workers at the Mountaire Farms poultry...
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Source, subject, and reader: A farm worker weighs in on short stories about...
Soraida Farias and The Counter’s senior writer on immigration and food, Tina Vasquez, read Jaime Cortez’s Gordo together. 04 04 The book “High on the Hog” nourished me as a Black chef when “New...
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Without preaching or pandering, Too Many Tamales celebrated our culture–and...
Gary Soto had no idea his children’s book would become a classic. Twenty-three years later, it still plays a vital role for countless Latino families. 03 03 Source, subject, and reader: A farm worker...
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Owning a restaurant is a risk, but it’s also a privilege—one these...
In California, immigrant entrepreneurs like Zacil “Sizzle” Pech are opening restaurants with—and for—their parents. Zacil Pech may be tender-hearted, but it only takes a few minutes to know she won’t...
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Mountaire Farms said North Carolina worker complaints about a toxic chemical...
The poultry giant was fined $21,000 related to its use of peracetic acid, vindicating workers and their advocates—but will it fix anything? After refuting workers’ claims that they were being exposed...
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North Carolina’s Department of Environmental Quality is facing its second...
The EPA is investigating whether it’s discriminatory for Eastern North Carolina’s hog waste operations to be centered in poor Black, Latino, and Indigenous communities. Residents in Eastern North...
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California is moving toward food assistance for all populations—including...
Lawmakers and advocates are urging Gavin Newsom to remove immigration and age restrictions from the state’s food assistance program. Undocumented immigrants experience food insecurity at much higher...
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