As I write this, I'm watching an ABC News report about how there is food literally rotting in the field for the lack of illegal workers to harvest it. I mention this on YPP b/c one of the US' major mushroom-producing areas lies west of the city, in Kennett Square + roundabout.

OK, now, call me crazy, but if you can't hire enough illegal immigrant workers to harvest the food, shouldn't you, I don't know, actually hire citizens? Ja, you'd have to pay them living wages, rather than poverty wages, and this will likely raise food costs. But as a Wal-Mart documentary pointed out, there's a high cost to low prices.

-Z