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From: Nyssa <Nyssa@logicalinsight.net>
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Subject: Re: Crops Rotting In Fields, Food Prices To Rise
Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2025 13:19:58 -0500
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suzeeq wrote:

> On 3/1/2025 7:28 AM, Nyssa wrote:
>> BTR1701 wrote:
>>=20
>>> On Jan 23, 2025 at 11:30:50 AM PST, "Noah Carter"
>>> <smythlejofffn2@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>> Trump=E2=80=99s 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?
>>=20
>> I don't have any problem getting my blueberries picked
>> each summer.
>>=20
>> I just let a couple neighbors know "if ya want 'em, come
>> pick 'em" and the problem is solved.
>>=20
>> 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
>>=20
> 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.=20

Worked out fine for the kids, earning extra pocket money,=20
and since the kids were locals, if any of them had caused=20
trouble, their parents could be counted on to straighten=20
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=20
in a job unless they could play with their iPhones while
they semi-worked