Re: Crops Rotting In Fields, Food Prices To Rise

suzeeq wrote:

On 3/1/2025 7:28 AM, Nyssa wrote:

BTR1701 wrote:
 

On Jan 23, 2025 at 11:30:50 AM PST, "Noah Carter"
<smythlejofffn2@hotmail.com> wrote:
>

Trump’s Immigration Plans Are Already Wrecking the
Food Industry Jan 22
>
Fear of increased ICE raids have already negatively
affected the nation's agricultural sector, causing
alarm that food prices could skyrocket in the near
future as a result of Donald Trump's aggressive
immigration policies.

>
"Without illegals, who will pick the blueberries?"
>
Well, Karen, let's start with your jobless 22-year-old,
blue-haired, Reddit-addicted trans son with a degree in
Intersectional Queerness who lives in your basement?

 
I don't have any problem getting my blueberries picked
each summer.
 
I just let a couple neighbors know "if ya want 'em, come
pick 'em" and the problem is solved.
 
Nyssa, who has more problems keeping the mockingbirds
from picking them before they're ripe so the humans can
pick them when they are ripe
 

Right but you probably don't have a couple hundred acres
of them.

Nope, but I know a farm near me does. They offer pick-it-
yourself and pre-picked to customers, with the self-picked
ones being a bit cheaper. Ditto during strawberry season.

Wnen I lived in SE MI, the local berry farms would hire
school kids to pick fruit after school and on weekends,
and regular hours during the summer.

Worked out fine for the kids, earning extra pocket money,
and since the kids were locals, if any of them had caused
trouble, their parents could be counted on to straighten
them out.

I guess these days the school kids either aren't capable
of that kind of thing or laws have changed to make it
harder for the farms to hire them. :/

Nyssa, who figures today's kids wouldn't be interested
in a job unless they could play with their iPhones while
they semi-worked