Well, that's true. But if efforts to bring realistic wages and benefits to migrant workers are successful, those things that have to be done by hand will simply cost more money. It will also spur some modern day Thomas Edison on to figure out a way to do the job more efficiantly.

             I can remember when they couldn't come up with a mechanical means of harvesting tomatoes. But then somebody came up with a thicker skinned tomatoe, and they just went on from there.

             Still, there are people who insist that modern tomatoes don't taste as good as the old ones, so they're willing to pay a premium price for organically grown thin-skinned tomatoes.