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Tracie McMillan

"If you want people to eat healthy, why make it so expensive?"

This book...

• is an undercover work of journalism 
• required one year undercover
• took three additional years to put together
• was equally disturbing and enlightening

"I can make no claim to having had an 'authentic' experience. But I can tell you what I saw, and I can tell you what I learned from my co-workers, ,most of whom will never have the privilege to write a book about their work, let alone have people read it."

Part One

Wages: $8.00/hr
Income: $204/wk
Food Bill: $52.06/wk
Per. of Income on Food: 25.6%

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Grapes

Peaches

Garlic

Part two

Wages: $8.10/hr
Income: $221/wk
Food Bill: $38.06/wk
Per. of Income on Food: 17.2%

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Grocery

Produce 101

Part three

Wages: $8.00
Income: $247/wk
Food Bill: $33.19/wk
Per. of Income on Food: 13.5%

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Kitchen

“So far as I can tell, changing what’s on our plates simply isn’t feasible without changing far more.” “Wages, health care, work hours and kitchen literacy are just as critical to changing our diets as the agriculture we practice or the places at which we shop.”