[0:00]You may think picking cotton is easy, but you're wrong. Even though it looks soft and fluffy, workers can finish a day with their hands completely torn up. That's because each piece of cotton is surrounded by sharp needle-like spikes. And they have to reach straight through them 100 times a day, with each grab pressing those spikes into the skin. By the end of the day, hands can be shredded and bleeding, sometimes even staining the cotton red. So even though
Cotton Picking Is Harder Than You Think 🤕
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[0:00]Even though it looks soft and fluffy, workers can finish a day with their hands completely torn up.
[0:00]And they have to reach straight through them 100 times a day, with each grab pressing those spikes into the skin.
[0:00]By the end of the day, hands can be shredded and bleeding, sometimes even staining the cotton red.
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