"Rudy Canoza" wrote in message
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"Rudy Canoza" wrote in message
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Are you ready for $8.00 per pound lettuce & broccoli?
I doubt it would go that high. I think those two crops, for one things,
are things that *do* lend themselves to more mechanization.

You can stop saying that now. It's getting old, and it is in no way
connected with the reality of how things grow.

I don't care if it's getting "old" or not. It is very *much* connected
with the reality of how some things grow.


Last time I'll type this: 2-3 years back, I got curious about this. I
contacted two farm machinery manufacturers and asked about this. Identical
response: If we could invent machines do address more needs, you'd see them
already. We'd love to, but...." Nobody has yet figured out how to pick
about half of what you see in the produce department.

Any gardener can point out 20 vegetables that'll be ruined when handled
roughly.









How do you think that would affect low income people?
Worse than it would affect higher income people. Most price increases
affect poor people more than rich people.

You're not suggesting that massive illegal immigration is countenanced
as a policy goal of providing cheap food for poor people, are you?


No, but is sure as hell is the way the economy has been structured over
the past 50-75 years.

The economy has not been "structured" in any such way, and large-scale
illegal immigration has not been going on for any 50-75 years.

Where do you come up with this crap, anyway?


When meat heads wail about throwing out migrant workers, they don't
consider that it'll take quite some time to adjust.

I don't know if it would or wouldn't. Personally, I'm not all that keen
to expel the illegally resident aliens who are here. I want to stop the
flow, and I want to get the citizenship clause of the 14th amendment to be
properly understood to get rid of the phenomenon of "anchor babies".


The biggest adjustment will be convincing people that someone has to do
"that kind of work",

No such adjustment is needed. People already understand that some amount
of labor is needed in agriculture.


and I don't care WHAT you pay them - you won't be able to accelerate the
cultural adjustment.

What kind of "cultural adjustment" is needed to make people understand
that labor-intensive work needs laborers for the work to get done? Are
you nuts?

I'll tell you what: Ask 20 teenagers if they'd be interested in working a
farm field when it's 93 degrees, and they have to bend over for 10 hours
cutting broccoli. Let me know what they say.