Our food system hurts: living with migrant farmworkers | Seth Holmes | TEDxYakimaSalon

Unequal policies force people to leave their homes and risk their lives to harvest our food. Unequal hierarchies in our food system determine who benefits and who gets sick. Unequal narratives justify this harmful system. As global citizens, eaters, and neighbors, we have the opportunity to challenge these inequalities.

Dr. Seth M. Holmes, author of "Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies", is a professor, physician and cultural anthropologist whose work focuses on social hierarchies, health inequalities, and the ways in which inequalities are naturalized and normalized in society and in health care.

[tammyfleming]

I had to watch this film as a classroom assignment, and I am so fortunate to have had the opportunity. I thoroughly enjoyed it. You were clear, concise, understandable, and related. The way you put things into perspective is eye opening. That copy should go to your local government.

[daisyloya]

Thank you! This should have more views!

[drosana]

Wish this had subtitles that weren't terrible youtube attempts. It's hard to understand what he's saying because of the echo-y sound.

[alcinah]

Thank you so much for your work. This is so important and you deliver the information in a way that I think can be heard by many. Thank you again.

[lordmonarch]

I guess you can bring up certain things to the government and during election day but I personally don't think voting changes much. Also whenever there's a politician that isn't corrupted and they're doing things that will have a REAL impact both on the country and the world, you never see or hear from them again 90% of the time. You need to talk to the REAL leaders of the world not the political ones! The political ones are just figure heads.