Wow, Star_Chaser...if you lived in North America back as far as the 1950s, one big reason you could afford fruit "just fine" (aside from good highways and refrigerated trucks) was the fact that it was picked--mechanization won't help in the strawberry fields--by low-wage migrant farm labour.  That was the big reason the fruit was "not rotting in the fields."  Ain't no new thing, and "mass migration" whatever that is has little to do with it.