Dukasaur wrote:
However, the majority of people would prefer their food from the supermarket, and as long as that's true, I think you should get the hell out of the way and let the farmers hire whomever they want. And along the way, show a little respect for people who do hard work that most of us don't want to.
I'm not in the way of farmers hiring whomever the hell they want. I also show no disrespect for people who do the hard work everyone else doesn't want to do.
I was only saying that we have to have illegal immigration because otherwise our veggies will be too over priced is a false argument. It increases the profit margins of the big farming conglomerates absolutely.
The little mom and pop farms don't use illegal immigrants and they sell their produce at farmer's markets and if you think farmer's markets are overly expensive then you are out of your mind. Farmers markets are cheap veggies locally produced.
Do you know why the price of veggies won't explode to the point of being overpriced for all but the rich? It's because veggies are very perishable. It's not like they can be stored for long periods, not fresh vegs, the producers either sell them quick or the produce spoils and it's worthless. Get rid of all the illegal immigrants and those who want to buy at the grocery store finds the prices too high, farmers markets would quickly move in to fill the void.
Hell that might be a great thing for the small mom and pop farmers which you should be more respectful of than the big farming conglomerates that supply the big grocery chains and provide substandard produce anyway compared to what one could grow themselves.
Just don't peddle the fallacy that we need illegal immigrants to keep food prices low. Sure, they do jobs that lots of people think is beneath them but if the illegals were all of a sudden take out of that labor market you're nuts if you don't think alternatives would quickly fill the void and keep those markets stable. It would just change is all. It wouldn't be some economic disaster except for those companies that rely on said labor. They go under, so what? New players move in to fill the void like always happens.
