Farm labor is a tiny fraction of the cost of retail food. It's not material and there is no dilemma. It is extremely material to the narrow profit margins of f

Farm labor is a tiny fraction of the cost of retail food. It's not material and there is no dilemma. It is extremely material to the narrow profit margins of farms, so you see a race to the bottom with importing slave labor, terrible practices, etc. But enforcing labor standards and minimum wages wouldn't add much to the average American's food bill, even assuming farms couldn't avoid some of the hit by using less or more productive labor.