John Oliver calls out the exploitation of farmworkers on LastWeekTonight.
Whenever you look at the produce that makes it to your table – especially the kind you buy from big companies – you rarely think about the process that made it arrive there. That’s why you can always count on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver to reveal some harsh truths about stuff you never considered and make you realize you can be a lot angrier at capitalism. This week, the show tackled the daunting reality of farmworkers, and the way that their essential work isn’t treated as such.
And John OIiver doesn’t use the term “essential” lightly: In 2020, at the height of the pandemic, farm working was selected as one of the engines that couldn’t stop turning, since basic food had to make it to Americans’ supermarkets and houses. Considering the importance of farmworkers and their work, you’d think that they’d be compensated accordingly by the farming industry. But you know if that happened, there wouldn’t be a Last Week Tonight episode about it.
COLLIDER VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Last Week Tonight Peels Back the Layers of the Harrowing Exploitation of Farmworkers The show revealed that, while farming is one of the most important jobs when it comes to the food industry, Americans aren’t really interested in taking those positions. Which is why about 70% of crop workers are foreign-born, and a whopping 59% of them are undocumented workers.
Farming Simulator 23: The Terrifying Edition That’s what prompted the Last Week Tonight team to fake-launch the new edition of popular video game Farm Simulator. In the 2023 LWT edition, you are able to hire farmworkers, select their underdeveloped country of origin, pick what age they’ll be and you can overwork them as much as you need.
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