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On a US dairy farm, working in the milking parlor can mean seven-day weeks, 12-hour shifts and intimate contact with cows and everything they expel.

When you disconnect the machine from the udder, it can shoot milk in your face," said Jose Martinez, a former dairy worker and United Farm Workers advocate based in Washington state. And there's no time or place to eat. So we ate our tacos in spare moments with cow shit on our hands."