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by gedy 898 days ago
> If you think food inflation is bad now, that would be off the charts.

I don't have a stat but looking in past the manual labor costs of food is very small percentage.

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True for staple crops, not fruits and vegetables. Many of those need to be hand picked still. Until theyre automated those farms would not be able to make any sales if they paid American level wages because everyone switch to cheaper imported produce. All the farms in the central valley and imperial valley could not exist without farm migrants.