One reporter's lesson from working at Walmart

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Love your produce manager

Reporter lives for a year as an undocumented farm worker, gains newfound respect for Walmart. Of course, living in a house with 20 other people eating only rice and beans would make anyone go insane

Sometimes all the food slogans we live with are totally overwhelming: To be healthy you need to eat five a day. Eat local. Eat organic. Vote with your fork. And of course, good, healthy food is the right of every American.

Excellent ideas, but who can afford them? Reporter Tracie McMillan went undercover at Walmart and in the farm fields to learn firsthand how these slogans play in the lives of a large percentage of Americans. What she unearthed is in her book, The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee's, Farm Fields, and the Dinner Table.

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