101 Shares The COVID-19 pandemic has taken an incalculable toll on the food industry workers of America, from restaurant servers and meat plant workers to the farmworkers who toil in fields. According to research from the University of California, San Francisco, food industry workers’ risk of dying went up by 40 percent from March to October 2020. For Latinx workers, deaths increased by 60 percent in the sector. In this six-part series, we’re honoring the lives of those we have lost to COVID-19. This week, we have tributes to a contract farmer who loved to cook, an Iowa cattle farmer and a chili plant worker who also grew his own food.