Starvation stalks Indian tea plantations

This is a sad story. Apparently, several unfavorable conditions arose at the same time and damaged the tea crops. Additionally, it seems that the mechanisms of organized labor failed at a time when they were needed most. The result? Tea workers are starving to death.

Link to globeandmail.com: Starvation stalks Indian tea plantations

I am hoping my brother bloggers here, GreenTeaGeek and inimino, will have something to say about this. At the moment, all I can say is that this sad story reminds me of human interconnection. As you can see from the video I posted here a few weeks ago, a lot of people do a lot of work to make the tea that we enjoy. And that's just the humans who do the work, to say nothing of the work of the insects, microorganisms, soil, rain, sun, and innumerable other beings whose efforts must all happen just right to get that awesome tea from the fields to your cup.

I don't want to trivialize the value of being aware of all that hard work. In fact, cultivating an awareness and appreciation of the effort seems like an important first step in addressing the problems facing the tea workers in this news story. It just never seems like enough.