Border protection without a workforce solution would be catastrophic for Ohio agriculture and food prices. Congress can and must deal with these problems simultaneously.

I'm not a document expert.

It's not a bailout. It's not a retroactive solution that we're advocating. It's ensuring that there is adequate protection for consumers. Our ability to protect consumers is finite.

This is the first step in determining whether and how Congress can provide a solution,

The longer I think about a food industry organized around an animal that cannot reproduce itself without technical assistance, the more I mistrust it. Poultry, a significant part of the modern diet, is emblematic of the whole dirty deal. Having no self-sustaining bloodlines to back up the industry is like having no gold standard to underpin paper currency. Maintaining a natural breeding poultry flock is a rebellion, at the most basic level, against the wholly artificial nature of how foods are produced.

Because our agriculture is so spread out, that makes it vulnerable. Our food gets transported a number of times and very widely.