And so it begins. Some farms already have produce rotting in fields due to lack of workers. [View all]

About 3 weeks ago an announcement was making the rounds on the internet. Some farm in California offered $11/hour, for 12 hours per day, 7 days a week, for a 3-month contract.

Now a photo from a farm in Homestead, Florida, is making the rounds. Row after row of tomato-bushes, heavy with fruit waiting to be picked, decaying in the blazing sun.



The choice is simple: Either food-shortages or wage-increases for farm-workers.

My guess was and still is that the Republicans will propose using prisoners for slave-labor. Because the capitalist law of supply-and-demand is only valid for making wages go down, not for wages going up.