I agree, but the farmers aren't pulling in massive amounts of cash either. There are record profits being siphoned from the wages of the workers, and from the profits of the farmers, and from the pockets of the consumer at the register. We'd all be better off if we tracked the money down and took it back.
replyPut Wall Street out of work and have the bankers work the farms out there in rural Conneticut and NJ and NY. It'll be good for them, put some hair on their chest and give them Real World Experience (tm)
replyFarmers don't see your retail cost in their gains either. That's captured by huge middlemen corporations.
replyUnless of course the farmers are themselves working for a huge vertically-integrated corpo.