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Journeyman

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Mon Dec-03-07 08:59 PM
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3. I picked strawberries one summer. . .

doesn't matter what someone gets paid for that backbreaking, sticky, itchy, fly-swarming labor, they're underpaid. So to pay someone what they should make for that work would price strawberries right off my table (and probably most other American tables, too). I imagine it would be the same for a lot of foods.

I do agree with the OP, however: Those who pick and process our food should get a decent wage. I just don't see how some of those jobs could ever be compensated fairly yet keep the food within reach of the majority of peoples' budgets.

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