{"id":36645,"date":"2020-08-09T03:24:06","date_gmt":"2020-08-09T03:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=36645"},"modified":"2020-08-09T03:24:06","modified_gmt":"2020-08-09T03:24:06","slug":"everyone-tested-positive-covid-devastates-agriculture-workers-in-californias-heartland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=36645","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Everyone tested positive&#8217;: Covid devastates agriculture workers in California&#8217;s heartland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The virus is surging in the Central Valley, where hundreds of thousands labor in the meat industry. Laborers say corporations did little to prevent the spread<\/p>\n<p>Across California&rsquo;s Central Valley, hundreds of thousands of proletarians cleanse the vegetables, debone the meat, sort the nuts and packet the make that discovers its style into kitchens throughout the United States.<\/p>\n<p>When the coronavirus made, the performance of their duties was governed essential, so they deterred working in the often cramped facilities that ga a commonwealth industry that exports <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdfa.ca.gov\/statistics\/PDFs\/2018-2019AgReportnass.pdf\"> $21 bn<\/a>in agricultural products each year.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2020\/aug\/08\/california-covid-19-central-valley-essential-workers\">Continue reading &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2020\/aug\/08\/california-covid-19-central-valley-essential-workers\">theguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The virus is surging in the Central Valley, where hundreds of thousands labor in the meat industry. Laborers say corporations did little to prevent the spread Across California&rsquo;s Central Valley, hundreds of thousands of proletarians cleanse the vegetables, debone the meat, sort the nuts and packet the make that discovers its style into kitchens throughout &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4028,15616],"class_list":["post-36645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-uncategorized","tag-california","tag-us-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/35001596943447.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}