🚀 go-pugleaf

David Kaye wrote:
> 
> Most crops must be picked by hand -- everything from grapes to artichokes.
> 
> And who is going to pick those crops?  People from other countries who
> need the money.  Americans won't do it.  As Mexico becomes more affluent,
> we will see a real agricultural crisis in California.  And don't forget,
> California is the #1 agricultural state in the U.S., about double that of
> Texas, its nearest competitor.
> 
> So, we should expect to see much higher produce prices in the future.


There is so much monkey business in agribusiness, from additives
to defoliants, cosmetic waxing of inert, useless produce and megatons
of chemical manipulation of the food chain that it would be a blessing
to pay more for produce if on a widespread basis, it weren't so rotten
and produced in so many corrupt ways by gangsters who don't have to
eat the crap they're heavily subsidized to bring to market.

The migrant labor issue's one small part of the almost total exploitation
of farming.  If more Americans were more involved in the growing and
harvesting of the lousy products, they'd be off their broccoli for good.
But what's it going to take to make that happen ?  Immigrants, legal
or not, didn't start the agricultural ball rolling into hellish decline.
Corporate "farmers" did.  Fighting about immigrants just buys them
more time.  If armchair immigration theorists cared as much about the 
real craft of farming as they claim to in passing, they'd be taking 
other, more effective action.

Support accountable growers only.  Shop at local farmers' markets
for all produce and never at chain stores.

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