'The whole thing is screwed up': Farmers in deep-red Pennsylvania struggle to find workers

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71. "Too spoiled" ? Well, Mr Painter, the vast majority of Americans are a century removed from farming

People are supposed to tell their urban and suburban grandkids that what they really need to do is give up applying for college or a technical job with a future, and travel hundreds of miles to a farm where they can sleep in a shed, get sprayed with pesticides, do backbreaking stoop labor all day, and have their pay handed to the overseer who will take his cut?

What Mr Painter wants is an unregulated labor system that amounts to slavery, and while that is a disgrace to all of us, it really begs the question of why in hell any person with a choice in the matter would sign up for that line of work?

Lobby for labor justice instead of what we have now, treat migrant and immigrant workers like human beings instead of like enemies or animals, and then get back to me.