That's why chefs have become advocates for everything from water rights to farm-workers rights to farmers markets.
All of which explains why Mr Jospin is treating the shooters with as much care as the farm-workers.
Meanwhile, the prime minister is keeping his head down: to be caught in the crossfire between the free-trade Americans and his doughty farm-workers, and between the European Commission and France's game-shooters, is to risk being wounded by political pellets.
Intriguingly, the voucher debate has pitched civil-rights-era black leaders and teachers' unions, who oppose the idea, against supporters ranging from the conservative governor of Florida, Jeb Bush, to the leftist head of the Milwaukee school board, John Gardner, a labour organiser who once led a campaign to support Cesar Chavez, the founder of the migrant farm-workers' union.
In Brazil and Turkey, around half of non-farm workers are in the informal sector.
Despite the obvious need for such workers, Congress has not developed a good legal way for farm workers and other low-skilled workers to enter America legally.
Outdoor enthusiast Sir Hugh Munro, who gave his name to mountains over 3, 000ft, is listed as a proprietor of two estates with gamekeepers, gardeners, farm workers and labourers - but no Munro mountains.
Here you will find emerald paddy fields studded with egrets, the bright-saris of farm workers, lazy rivers, herds of wandering oxen, and hidden beaches almost entirely without the big resorts, sprawling hotels or frenzied nightlife of elsewhere.
However, today, America has only a bureaucratic H-2A visa category that pleases neither growers nor the farm workers union, and a cumbersome H-2B visa for short-term seasonal work outside of agriculture.
In 1996, the Labor Department accused DeCoster of maintaining "sweatshop conditions" for migrant workers at its Turner, Maine, chicken farm, where then-Labor Secretary Robert Reich said workers risked salmonella by handling dead chickens and manure with their bare hands.
There they have visited the site of an abandoned sugar-mill and met farm workers and their families.
Investigators haven't provided details about who they suspect was responsible or why they targeted the men -- windshield washers and farm workers, according to Notimex.
Buffenstein said his book did not even attempt to explain the bureaucratic and cumbersome process growers must endure to hire farm workers legally on H-2A visas.
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Not only does she have Villaraigosa's backing, but she also recently won the endorsement of Latino icon Dolores Huerta, who co-founded the United Farm Workers with Cesar Chavez.
The H-2A visa controversy involving farm workers exemplifies labor's mixed bag as much as any other issue.
Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farm Workers of America and a lifelong advocate for civil rights, workers, and women.
Ivan and his peers will be America's next generation of entrepreneurs and farm workers, engineers and assembly-line employees, inventors, nurses, teachers -- and doctors.
Precise figures are hard to come by, but according to Erik Nicholson, national vice-president for the United Farm Workers' union, as many as 70% of American agricultural workers may be undocumented.
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Senators plan to offer a speeded-up pathway to citizenship to farm workers already in the country illegally who've worked in the industry for at least two years.
At the same time, a socially desirable earlier change to the pension system has meant that millions of poor retired farm workers have begun to receive income-support payments, at a cost this year of about 10 billion reais.
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Born 14 September 1965 in Leningrad, he was descended, by his own account, from farm workers, a blacksmith and a hat-maker.
Most of the Western Cape's 3, 000 farm workers are not employed on a permanent basis - despite working on the farms for many years.
The average trade guess on the non-farm payrolls figure is a rise of 80, 000 workers in August.
The labour of love of eccentric English aristocrat Sir Stewart Gore-Brown, it is approached down a long, tree-lined drive, flanked by farm buildings, settlements and workers houses, giving it the air of an old feudal domain.
Even Cesar Chavez, the famed Californian farm workers' leader, never held off 80 gunslingers single-handed.
Some 404, 000 workers were added to the payrolls of non-farm businesses in November.
Hundreds of Peruvian farm workers marched through Lima at the start of a two-day national strike to protest against under-investment in farming by the government.
Other planned projects which have fuelled a demand for building workers include a proposed 30-turbine offshore wind farm at Scarweather Sands, off Porthcawl, the proposed development of film studios at Llanharan, near Bridgend and city centre developments in Swansea.
South Africa has increased the basic daily wage of farm workers by 52% following a violent strike in the wine-producing Western Cape region, the labour minister has said.
Inspired by the Depression-era Farm Security Administration photography project, its photographers shot everything from small Midwestern towns, barrios in the Southwest and coal-mining communities in Appalachia to African-Americans in Chicago, urban renewal in Kansas City and migrant farm workers in Colorado.
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