Picking lettuce is a skill believe it or not. I know because I've worked in the industry. I don't agree with shady tactics (newspaper ads in other cities etc, I

Picking lettuce is a skill believe it or not. I know because I've worked in the industry. I don't agree with shady tactics (newspaper ads in other cities etc, I've seen those too). I also know many big farms are often one step away from slavers and abuse laborers for a small profit. That being said, it's sad but true that foreign laborers do have the skills and desire to do things Americans for the most part don't and won't. You can argue this and claim it isn't so.. it very much is so and I've seen it over and over and I know for certain that it's the case. I wish it wasn't. I don't know what the answer is. I'm not for slave wages. I'm not for importing lots of cheap foreign labor. But I don't want to pay $6 for a head of lettuce either. Maybe you and I don't mind... but for many people that kind of raise in food prices would be catastrophic. Hopefully robotics solves some of the problem shortly. Which of course introduces a whole new set of problems.