I need to make some of these! Thanks for the size tip! I’ll try it.

A thoughtful post on such a painful loss, Dan. I’m so sorry. Thank you for writing and sharing.

8/ "The only real solution for farmworkers, for farmers, and for all of us, is far more fundamental change in the American immigration system. It’s a pathway to citizenship for the people who feed us.

And until migrant farmworkers are free and safe to work with dignity, none of us ever will be."

7/ "make it more likely that workers are forced into more grueling work schedules, suffer more wage theft, work more while sick (for example, with H5N1, the deadly bird flu that’s been detected in dairy cows and dairy workers in the U.S.) and overall experience more dangerous and shitty conditions."

6/ "If this power to have and dispose of workers is suddenly in the hands of farmers in a more formal way than ever before, like a sword of Damocles hanging over workers’ heads– do you think I will ever say no to anything my boss asks of me?"

5/ "In short, literally nothing is achieved in all of this but terror. There are no benefits to American workers, farmers, or consumers created by this mess. It is nothing more than an expensive exercise in torturing the most vulnerable people in our communities."

4/ "The true victims here aren’t farmers who depend on and hire (and sometimes exploit) undocumented migrants, or consumers. It’s the workers themselves and their communities."

3/ "Not to mention that these are probably not the first raids these dairies have experienced. Dairies across the country have been getting periodically raided for years, so most know how to handle them and are not likely to go out of business as a result."