Why The Blueberry Is Bound To Lose Its Taste This Season
The New Jersey Blueberries that America and the rest of the world enjoys, comes at a very heavy inhuman cost paid.... It is sad state of affairs for workers who are risking their lives to get fresh fruits to your doorstep in pandemic times. It is for a fact that every year, each summer, thousands of temporary agricultural workers and their families arrive in New Jersey for the blueberry harvest. The state produces 40 to 50 million pounds of the fruit each year. This year has been tough on them, thanks to the Covid-19 scare, where they have risked their lives to produce the same fruit. The summer has also led to the worst heat wave. Most of these workers are not given proper protective gears to wade off the corona virus. Blueberry is big business in New Jersey and Hammonton makes for the ‘blueberry capital of the world’. It has more than 50 blueberry farms in and around the town with a meager population. But every year, it attracts temporary labour...