picking and packing it is not the only labor involved, it has to be planted and taken care of for months and months
I know that. In the end when the supermarket sells the lettuce for $1 the supermarket is lucky to make 4 cents. That single head of lettuce goes through at least a dozen hands before you ever look at it in the store. And by then it might be spoiled.
It is a miracle that it ever makes it to the consumer.
Mr. Central VA thinks that paying field workers $45 an hour would only increase the cost by 6 cents. But if we are paying the field hands $45 an hour, what will we have to pay the truck loaders, truck drivers, warehousemen, buyers and retail clerks? If you are paying $45 an hour for unskilled labor, what will we have to pay for skilled labor?