Posted on 02/25/2023 7:52:48 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
If you shop organic, you may be paying a pretty penny these days.
That’s a key finding in a new report by LendingTree that analyzed pricing data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The report noted that while inflation has resulted in price increases in many conventional food items over the past year, the hikes for their organic equivalents have often been more significant.
Consider: Organic strawberries have more than tripled in price, increasing by 224.4%, while conventional ones have seen a more measured (though not insignificant) price hike of 22.6%. And organic vine-ripe tomatoes have doubled in price, while conventional ones have gone up by 18.6%.
Perhaps more remarkable: In some cases, prices have declined for conventional items, even as they have surged for organic ones. A dramatic case in point: conventional chicken legs have dropped in price by 42%, while the price of organic chicken legs has increased by 67%. And conventional kale prices have dropped by 10%, while organic kale has shot up 80%.
As the LendingTree report stated, “Eggs may be the new luxury status symbol at the grocery-store checkout line, but they’re not the only product with a rising price tag.”
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The left mostly destroys the left. They don’t care ..they keep their job.
Consider: Organic strawberries have more than tripled in price, increasing by 224.4%, while conventional ones have seen a more measured (though not insignificant) price hike of 22.6%. And organic vine-ripe tomatoes have doubled in price, while conventional ones have gone up by 18.6%.
Organics may be out of fashion, like beatle haircuts.
Going “green” or “organic” is simply not sustainable. Well, it isn’t for 8 billion people, but it might be for 500 million people.
Virtue signaling is always expensive.
Watch as the cost of “carbon credits” soars.
We started out with an AeroGarden and added a TowerGarden. You have no idea how good lettuce really tastes.
We grow Little Gem lettuce. What do you grow?
I never did the tower thing but i have a fairly good idea how good fresh grown veggies taste.
“beatle haircuts”
Those are out of fashion? Damn. Off to get a haircut then.
Maybe I’ll keep it long in the back and a crew cut in the front.
Anything that requires more work is going to go up in price because people are expensive.
That’s correct. I’ve read that in order to feed everyone organic food, 95% of open space would need to be farmed to account for crop failure due to no pesticides. And, the ones saying that organic is good for you, is the Organic Farmers Assoc. The very ones who would gain.
How ‘bout a tonsure?
I’m just a backyard gardener, certainly no farmer. So I have to wonder why organic fruits and veggies are more expensive since they don’t have to spend money on expensive petroleum based fertilizers and pesticides? Isn’t manure and compost free, except for the little extra labor? Does the lack of pesticides and fertilizers reduce yields that much? I always chalked up that organic fruits and veggies were more expensive because that is what the market will bear. People are willing to pay higher prices.
Start a backyard garden and you can be organic for pennies.
I'm looking those up. The TowerGarden seems pricey. I'm wondering what the advantage of these indoor systems is. I guess not having to deal with pests is a big one. And a year-long growing season. Any others?
Now I have the tomato and peppers one. I guess I need to replant the tomatoes, they are getting huge.
Imma have to look into the TG one.
I was about to say the same for my tomatoes grown from seed. Amazing what they taste like when pulled from the vine.
XD XD
I had to look that up.
“Tonsure is the practice of cutting or shaving some or all of the hair on the scalp as a sign of religious devotion or humility.”
Hmmm. “humility”... off to look that up.
“Does the lack of pesticides and fertilizers reduce yields that much?”
I wasn’t an organic farmer but my neighbor was. The answer is yes. Yield is reduced and crop damage is much higher. Production per acre is much lower therefore price is much higher.
Modern methods mean we can feed billions of people while farming less land and starvation is a product of wars not crop failures. I guess modern people got tired of the lack of famines.
The spray manual for organic producers us twice as thick as the one for conventional producers.
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