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SAT Essay Prompts Prompt 1 Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below. Mass-produced tomatoes have become redder, more tender and slightly more flavorful than the crunchy orange cello-wrapped specimens of a couple of decades ago, but the lives of the workers who grow and pick them havent improved much since Edward R. Murrows revealing and deservedly famous Harvest of Shame report of 1960, which contained the infamous quote, We used to own our slaves; now we just rent them. Assignment: Should the cost of any product be measured and priced economically as it is now or it should also incorporate the extra embedded cost of humanity? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations. Attached below is the original exerpt from an online essay adopted for this essay. Mass-produced tomatoes have become redder, more tender and slightly more flavorful than the crunchy orange cello-wrapped specimens of a couple of decades ago, but the lives of the workers who grow and pick them havent improved much since Edward R. Murrows revealing and deservedly famous Harvest of Shame report of 1960, which contained the infamous quote, We used to own our slaves; now we just rent them. | 
