GatorB

A farmer that charges that much for strawberries is going to have a lot of strawberries rotting somewhere.

Fact is farmers pay such low wages because they are basically allowed to hire illegals. If they cold afford to pay $100 an hour for labor they would because of WHO they are hiring. Illegals can't complain about work conditions or poor wages. Farmers already get welfare from the government it's just called subsidies. Now they want to be allowed to keep hiring illegals so they can pay low low wages. If I hired an illegal as a maid and I get caught and I didn't pay into Social Security boy the government goes after me hard. Do these farmers turn in Social Security wages for these illegals? Nope. If they hired Americans they would. That's part of the problem with Social Security now. Not enough workers putting in to pay for current retirees. Exasterbate that by having a sizable chunk the the workforce not pay in anything at all and see how much worse it gets.

As I said before why not justify slavery? You're whole point is farmers should be allowed to pay such low wages because that's all they can afford to pay. Well what if they can't afford to pay ANYTHING? Who is going to pick the veggies then? You'll need slaves because they don't get paid anything. But no one here would think that is right. More food is being grown by huge corporate farms and that's the way it's going. And if Mr Greenjeans can't compete he's better off just selling out to the big corporations and moving on to something else. Hell farmers can let their own children as young as 10 work on the farm and operate heavy equipment. WTF other rules do they want that the rest of us aren't allowed to do?

Almost ALL our ancestors here in America farmed. How many of us still do this? Not many. So all this nostalgia for the "family farm" can't just quit. Are people who have their own small gardens and grow their own veggies anti-farmer because that's one less customer?