>"The addition of overtime makes our already high labor costs completely uncompetitive to Mexico and Peru," says Schreiber, citing the top two asparagus exporte

>"The addition of overtime makes our already high labor costs completely uncompetitive to Mexico and Peru," says Schreiber, citing the top two asparagus exporters to the U.S. In both countries, cutters make less in a day than Schreiber pays in an hour. The end result will simply be that the US farms go out of business. More South American rainforest cut down for agriculture, more climate change, less resilient food systems, and the cycle goes on and on...