<p><pre><code> Oh that strawberry cake
Oh that strawberry cake
Out in California them berries were grown
And into this city them berries were flown
For making that strawberry cake*
Then I thought of Oxnard, just north of LA
Where I picked strawberries for many a day
Hard work with no future for the harvest was done
And I headed eastward a-travelin’ by thumb
And nobody wanted me here in this town
I felt like a stray dog they all kick around
Them berries reminded me of my bad breaks
I’m hungry and I want that strawberry cake*
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We enjoy our strawberry cake, all the fresh and organic produce we eat, at an amazingly low price if we are honest, yet we don't fight for the well-being and rights of the people who work the fields, so-called illegal aliens, who are paid slave wages, who have no health care, whose citizenship status leaves them even more vulnerable to exploitation than others on the bottom of America's caste system.<p><i>“Here am I, and there he is, but for the grace of God I’d be out there.”</i><p>~ Johnny Cash, in the OP video<p>I don't use Twitter (now X *eye roll*) anymore, but I used to try and get friends to follow the United Farm Workers. They post a lot of videos of workers in the field, both beautiful and heartbreaking. Here are a few posts:<p><i>Indiana strawberry harvester, age 7.</i><p>~ <a href="https://twitter.com/UFWupdates/status/1418834775280861192" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/UFWupdates/status/1418834775280861192</a><p><i>Hundreds of thousands of farm workers in the United States are children.</i><p>~ <a href="https://twitter.com/UFWupdates/status/1418836903672094725" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/UFWupdates/status/1418836903672094725</a> (see the thread)<p><i>Jose works in the Salinas area cutting strawberries. He shares, "I have been working in the CA fields for 21 years and in those 21 years I have not been able to see my parents again because I don't have legal status."</i><p>~ <a href="https://twitter.com/woodlandalyssa/status/1417812246676131843" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/woodlandalyssa/status/141781224667613184...</a>