In 2016, an attempt to convert seven Nipomo, CA, "urban farm homes" into housing for a hundred temporary Mexican farm workers was met with anger and opposition from neighbors. Debate over who should or should not live in these homes in a city that is 75 percent white intensified, and one of these houses was even set on fire. While the sale of locally grown produce in California is escalating, those who live in the cities and towns next to farms have used lawsuits and quickly produced housing regulations to keep seasonal workers, often from Mexico, out of the dirty, crowded spaces far from the farms on which they work. Which element of commodity fetishism does the workers' presence disallow Nipomo residents from engaging in?
A) creating commodity's exchange value
B) emptying the commodity of its meaning
C) outsourcing production
D) selling produce at a higher price

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The presence of the Mexican farm workers disallows Nipomo residents from emptying the commodity of its meaning, as the workers are a reminder of the labor required to produce the locally grown produce and disrupt the idealized image of the commodity as a solely natural or mechanical object.

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