How long before food prices start to spike?

[randr]

Food is already rotting in fields. Ironically we will have to import more food from Mexico.

[yeoman6987]

1. They've been spiking for years. Milk meat, cereal and everything else

[madokie]

13. Two of us

with a grand daughter on weekends some. We're paying an average of 100 bucks a week on groceries.

I remember when we first got married, (26 years ago,) and with two sons and all their friends we'd spend an average of 40 bucks a week. We allowed the kids and their friends to eat whatever whenever they wanted. No one in our house went hungry.

I was raised in a very poor family and spent most of my early life, up to about 13 years old when I started working for money, hungry. It sucks.

We eat good but very seldom eat steak or lobster, maybe once a year if that. My wife cooks every night except when we go out on friday nights.

About half the time I cook my own breakfast the rest of the time I go the restaurant

If I'm lucky I might get Salmon patties once every six weeks I love salmon patties, hot off the stove or cold right out of the frig. They sure stink up; the house while their cooking though

Peace to all

[Kingofalldems]

14. As hard as you try, yeoman6987, there is no defense of Trump.

[bunnies]

2. Where is food already rotting in fields?

I haven't heard anything about that.

[NewRedDawn]

3. Alabama

I heard reports that workers there afraid to work,as ICE is targeting these venues.

[Bonx]

4. Yep. "Alabama immigration: crops rot as workers vanish to avoid crackdown"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/oct/14/alabama-immigration-law-workers

[bunnies]

6. Article is from 2011. nt

[Egnever]

9. Yea that was when Alabama put in it's own draconian immigration laws

it did not work out well for them and they backed off. One would think that repukes would have learned a lesson from that but they clearly did not.

The same thing is now happening in several states and the results will be similar.

[bunnies]

11. I'm convinced that the pukes are only happy...

when they're hurting people. Or convincing people to hurt themselves. It almost seems pathological. Republicans eat, right?

[bunnies]

5. Fantastic.

$40 fruits here we come!

[In_The_Wind]

7. An interesting article about vegetables rotting in the fields of Belle Glade, Florida.

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/business/exclusive-farms-leave-produce-rot-fields-crop-prices-plummet/QloOnGlEff02JwTCzDR5GI/

[safeinOhio]

8. West Michigan, home of the Devos family

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2016/09/11/michs-farm-labor-shortage-hits-immigration-politics/90246606/

[democratisphere]

10. Wall Street took control of our food supply years ago with smaller and smaller packages and higher

and higher prices. Control the food, control the masses. It has been done throughout history.

[Ilsa]

12. Maybe if employers were more responsible about

Helping their employees get their documentation in order, their product wouldnt be going to waste.since govt. isn't going to charge employers who break the law, let them lose money.