How food gets on our plate is often a mere afterthought. We eat three meals a day and munch on late night snacks, but the farmers and agricultural workers providing this food remain completely out of sight.
We expect food to show up on our local grocery store shelves day after day and week after week, but what would happen if it didn’t? We saw it before with the COVID-19 pandemic, where shelves were wiped clean or filled with off-brand products that couldn’t be replaced for weeks.
There is a labor shortage, and no one is talking about it.
We need agricultural workers to perform essential daily tasks crucial to keeping a farm up and running, but with the decrease in help comes a decrease in food available for consumption.
Prices have risen since 2020, and they don’t seem to be dropping any time soon. According to the American Farm Bureau Federation, grocery bills across America are rising at the fastest pace in more than 40 years.
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