My Maddening Quest to Find Out if Blueberries Come From Farms Where Workers Were Harmed

Over the past year, I’ve reported about crimes against farmworkers who have come to the U.S. legally from Mexico and Central America.

Their wages were stolen, guns were pointed in their faces, and one woman I met was held captive, raped and nearly killed.

As I wrote those stories, there was something else I couldn’t stop thinking about — something I keep thinking about: Whenever I go to the grocery store, I have no easy way of knowing if the fruits and vegetables I put in my cart are part of the problem I’ve documented.

I eat a lot of blueberries, which happen to be the fruit grown most in the state where I live, Georgia, and the state where I tracked these abuses.

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