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COMMENTS: Blueberries Blackballed
ABC's Brian Ross offered a hat-tip to a quartet of graduate students with Carnegie Corporation fellowships. They singled out a blueberry farm in Michigan for child labor abuses. Fruit from Adkin Blue Ribbon Packing will no longer be sold by the supermarkets of Kroger, Meijer and Walmart after their expose. The fellows explained that small fingers are especially adept at harvesting fruit that has to be picked by hand. They found children aged five, seven and eight working the bushes this summer. Do not focus on Adkin alone, Ross warned. These abuses occur "in virtually every state, in fruit and vegetable fields, where fruit and vegetables are picked by hand."
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