cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/32291701
The reason is simple: an increase in immigration enforcement, including high-profile ICE raids, shook Texas farm workers to their core. The news filtered fast that workers—regardless of legal status—chose safety over a salary.
Farmers, who had been working with their crews for decades, described the loss as “devastating” and “unprecedented.” This is alarming as most farms are founded upon immigrant labor, both legal and illegal, creating a domino effect for the food system as a whole.
. . . When farm workers vanish, the effects are felt far beyond the fields. Livestock is untended, crops go unpicked, food production declines, and food prices dramatically increase. In Texas alone, where specialty vegetables and fruits must be hand-picked, worker shortages jeopardize entire harvest seasons.
This results in fewer foods on grocery store shelves, higher prices for families nationwide, and a greater reliance on imports. Threads on Reddit and YouTube are already predicting price hikes and empty produce shelves.
a corporation that cannot pay labor what it requires (ie the market) should choose: shut down or shut down. profit is stolen wage, too. So… yeah.
Remember kids: corporations are not people. Unlike babies, corporations can be thrown out with the bath water.
Pay labor a living wage or get fucked.
Totally get it, super on board, but uh, to circle back to the here and now for a second, we kinda need food? So the situation as it is right now really blows.
Some people are joking about $70 salads, but also there is a point in there. Farming sucks ass a job and if you paid people enough to incentivise folks to do it, that’s something not a lot of farmers can do, especially small ones.
So what would an ideal solution be with the technology we have now?
Syndicalism. Farmers co-ops. Food from your lawn.
Not really elaborating on that much… Not everyone can afford to drive out to the country to work on a farm for food, and a lot of people don’t have lawns.
I’m not saying a post reply on lemmy will cover what I mean or fix everything ; but my examples are things we can start with and they don’t hurt. Recovery from capitalism will take a long time.
Look, I’m all for dismantling capitalism, but you do your cause disservice if you criticize something, act like you have the answers, and then don’t deliver. If you don’t have the answers just say so up front.
is it a disservice to the slave to leave his chains or even discuss it, even if he has nowhere to go after?
“Complaining about a problem without posing a solution is called whining.” Teddy Roosevelt
I’m not saying to not discuss it. I’m not saying to stay a slave.
When were talking about people needing to eat, though, you’re gonna need some solutions if you want to enact change. No one can do a revolution on an empty stomach, and if you’re going to hand wave basic survival, you’re not going to get anyone to follow you.
i don’t understand. i mentioned some starter solutions. Do you want a logistical breakdown soup to nuts? You can confer with greater minds than mine for that.
Personally I do what I can. I help my neighbors and my community at large, as best as I can. And I support where I can, too.
Have you talked to the average American about agriculture? They would starve themselves in a few months.
Also, you would have to come up with rules on who grows what and how seed savings would work. You need to keep things that can cross pollinate away from each other.
Now you know the point of Leviticus 19:19 and Deuteronomy 22:9.
Done. Your salad is now $74.99
Sounds like capitalism has failed then at that point. Seize the means brother.
https://menuprice.co/dk/mcdonalds-menu
if that’s what means labor gets a living wage (which also assumes I get one), and the corporation makes no profit and the workers own the means of production- cool!
Cows eat salad…here’s your $3900.99 double McChicken, 1/4 pounder delight with bacon bits sir! It’s served over a Mexican cheese platen…oh don’t eat the platen! That’s just to keep the moisture in!