Back to trivial shit like the food supply, I've seen this movie before. We had an unusually gumpy state senator named Scott Beason, who possessed the reverse Midas touch of turning everything to shit. One of his deeds was to wreck the picking of tomatoes. (another was to harass a cleaning lady at Miles College by turning her water off, but he doesn't know that.)
Beason is a dead-squirrel toupee-wearing churchy-chik-fil-a drip. He finally got voted out, in Alabama, after being too bone-headedly doctrinaire.
https://www.al.com/wire/2011/10/chandler_mountain_farmers_comp.html
After talking with farmers at the tomato shed, Beason visited the Smith family's farm. Leroy Smith, Chad Smith's father, challenged the senator to pick a bucket full of tomatoes and experience the labor-intensive work.
Beason declined but promised to see what could be done to help farmers while still trying to keep illegal immigrants out of Alabama.
Smith threw down the bucket he offered Beason and said, "There, I figured it would be like that."