[DoreenMichele]

I doubt that. I once read it would add 2 cents to the cost of a box of cereal to pay farm workers better.

(It has probably been a few years, but the point stands: the cost of labor is a small portion of the cost of food.)

[dragonwriter]

> I once read it would add 2 cents to the cost of a box of cereal to pay farm workers better.

Well, clearly you can pay them better with an even smaller increase, it's just a question of how much better; without quantifying that, commenting about how much the cost increase would be to achieve it is meaningless.

Of course, in any case, farm workers aren't the whole cost of labor in the farm-to-shelf pipeline, either.

[DoreenMichele]

Other than being pedantic, do you have a concrete point? Are you generally agreeing or disagreeing that we could pay them better without seeing some huge spike in food prices?