[Tempest]

"If it is twelve dollars, people won't buy it. The price of goods must fit the market."

True, otherwise the goverment will have to come in a subsidize the farming industry further than they already do in order to keep prices low. In which case we end up paying for it either way.

Or supermarkets will just have to import more produce killing another American industry. It's a terribly complex circular arguement isn't it?

[Pan_Yans Wife]

For every action there is a reaction.

BOYCOTT LETTUCE TODAY! :)

[slowhandluke]

Well, we could do what some of the Israeli farms have done and find ways to automate the harvest. That was reported some time back when the supply of cheap Palestinian labor started getting distrupted (and disruptive). I heard on some radio
station recently that there are mechanical means to pick grapes, but the investment isn't worth it. It would be, if the farmer could find $20/hr operators, but not $5/hour pickers.