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There is also the fact that we have more than enough food to go around (at least among the nations producing the food). I expect the AL farmers don't have the resources to pay more for workers, but they cannot afford to pay more because the crop isn't really needed in the first place. Nobody in the US, that I am aware of, went hungry because of that failure. If that loss was going to be devastating to the consumer, they would have opened their wallets to ensure it got harvested.