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Gianna Nino,aStanford University medical student,was about to finish her summer job picking blueberries, when she posed a question on Twitter highlighting the disparity between what farmworkers are paid and what fruit costs thatquickly went viral. Witha single tweet, she is rising awarenessabout the conditions workers like her mother face."We have to consider farmworkers as this population that has hopes and dreams and families and goals, and every day that we wake up and we eat our fruit and veggies we don't really think about that," she wrote.Nino said talking about her experience gave her an opportunity to humanize the people "behind the food we eat."
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