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ICE raids on farms risk food supply chain disruption
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Farmworkers illegally in the US are in hiding
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Crops are unharvested and rotting
ICE raids on farms risk food supply chain disruption
Farmworkers illegally in the US are in hiding
Crops are unharvested and rotting
First quote is the old lie:
“Most Americans don’t want to do this work“ ( at the wages we want to pay)
It’s not a lie and it’s not really the pay, it’s a terrible job that anyone with any other option is going to skip because it sucks and it ruins your body really really fast.
If it paid $30/hr a lot of people would be able to overlook the downsides.
The business was only viable because it could get people to break their backs for peanuts.
Not just peanuts: They could exploit undocumented immigrants by paying them less than minimum wage and abuse them without having to worry about getting sued or deal with paying unemployment insurance.
Industrial farming will never work without cheap labor so either you perfect robots or you look the other way about migrant labor.
Most countries don’t pay their farm workers below local minimum wage, and yet somehow they produce food.
It is often done by foreign workers, though. Just above board, above or at minimum wage, which goes a lot further in their home countries.
Mmm lots do but the government provides subsidies to make up the difference.
Yes, I’d also argue they aren’t actually industrial farming in the same way we are. Most of the us methods are illegal in other countries of similar development.