Apple pie is a Thanksgiving classic. Maybe you put apples in your stuffing or in a salad. As you do these things, you might think of the hour you spent picking apples at an orchard as a fun fall activity for the family, sitting down for mulled cider and cider donuts when you were done.
Picking apples is a very different thing for the workers who do it for a living.
It’s often not an hourly wage:
Compare what workers are paid to what you pay for apples:
Harvesting isn’t the only work that goes into growing apples, of course:
Everything you eat on Thanksgiving (and every other day) has stories behind it like these. Remember them.