I'm Bill Moyer. It's good to have your ear.

This week on Moyers & Company, Baltimore Velascus, inspires the people who harvest the food we eat.

It's a remarkable story.

I told the Campbell Soup executives, I told the Heinz executives, I told the Dean Foods executives,

I told the Mon Olive executive, the CEO,

and I'm telling Reynolds America right now, you're a good man, but the system that you operate is wrong

and is built on inequity, and you need to fix it because you have the power to do so.

And author Tom Diaz on how the gun control industry finds a profitable new market in self-defense laws and concealed weapons.

The gun industry is making more and more lethal firearms easy to carry.

There are bad people in the world, but the presence of firearms makes an encounter with a bad person even more dangerous.

Thanks for joining us.

My generation was moved and shocked by one of the most powerful documentaries ever made.

Broadcast a night after Thanksgiving in 1960, Edward R. Murrow's harvest of shame exposed us to the callous exploitation

of the migrant workers who pick our fruit and vegetables.

This is an American story that begins in Florida and ends in New Jersey and New York State

with the harvest.

It is a 1960 grapes of wrath that begins at the Mexican border in California and ends in Oregon and Washington.

It is the story of men and women and children who work 136 days of the year and average $900 a year.

They travel in buses. They ride trucks. They follow the sun.

They are the migrants, workers in the sweatshops of the soil, the harvest of shame.

Believe it or not, more than 50 years later, the life of a migrant laborer is still an ordeal.

And not just for adults, perhaps as many as half a million children, some as young as

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