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  • Let's make it legal

    1. the reason the school year is set the way it is, is so that kids can harvest their families' fall crops, right?
    2. Why can't the apple growers in the Hudson Valley hire teenagers and other minimum-wagers to pick their apples? Can they hire youth/church groups to pick their apples in exchange for a sizeable donation to their group (which is less than they pay their illegals)? Do they really pay that little for the illegals? (Probably, and that's just wrong.)

    The alternative is more imported, possibly unsafe, fruits and veggies: "the import share of U.S. vegetable consumption has been rising steadily, from about 7 percent in 1990 to 14 percent in 2005. Fruit imports (excluding bananas) as a percentage of consumption have also doubled, rising from 12 percent in 1992-1994 to 24 percent in 2002-2004."

    Trying to eat in-season local produce helps, but since there are fewer family farms, it's not so easy. On How globalization is smothering U.S. fruit and vegetable farms posted 2 years, 2 months ago 11 Responses