> Wages are too low to pay for higher food prices that could sustain local field labour, and the majority of average people are already having their hands full with and pockets empty from paying rent, gas, transportation, emergency fund & food as-is.
Food isn't the issue on that list. Expenses for food have been stable for 20 years at ~14% of income (down from 45% in 1950). Given that these issues would only affect a few fruits and vegetables (but not grains, potatoes, rice, meat, dairy, which are the main foods), higher wages for harvest workers wouldn't make a significant dent in the average German's budget. Yeah, asparagus would be 20% more expensive and so would tomatoes, but the former is rare and somewhat of a luxury anyhow and tomatoes are cheap - at 1,99€ a kg, you won't notice a price hike to 2,49/kg in your budget at the end of the month.
Food isn't the issue on that list. Expenses for food have been stable for 20 years at ~14% of income (down from 45% in 1950). Given that these issues would only affect a few fruits and vegetables (but not grains, potatoes, rice, meat, dairy, which are the main foods), higher wages for harvest workers wouldn't make a significant dent in the average German's budget. Yeah, asparagus would be 20% more expensive and so would tomatoes, but the former is rare and somewhat of a luxury anyhow and tomatoes are cheap - at 1,99€ a kg, you won't notice a price hike to 2,49/kg in your budget at the end of the month.