Organic Stores Hurt By Rising Food Prices | Newsweek Project Green | Newsweek.com
This is a great article if you are a fan of misinformation with opinionated hatred for healthy eating sprinkled throughout. The issue is that this is not an editorial. It is supposed to be valid information. There is also a fairly heavy tone of disrespect for Whole Foods throughout, as if they are the only market that has organic and natural foods or that they set the prices for all stores. $7 for a gallon of organic milk? I pay $5. $6 for a pint of organic strawberries? Is that too much? If it was that much I wouldn’t eat strawberries! Why? Check it. It it worth eating conventional produce to save a buck or two? I don’t think so. By doing so you put unhealthy levels of chemicals and pesticides into your body. With escalating costs of health care and medicines, you will end up spending more on your unhealthy lifestyle, and that is not even taking into account what spraying pesticides like that does to the environment. With more companies producing organic products, I have noticed prices a little lower, not higher. When I compare prices for most of the products I buy, the difference is marginal. It usually ranges from $0.10 to $1 most of the time. If you are crunching your budget, you can concentrate on buying organic produce that is found to have the highest concentration of pesticides when produced conventionally and buy conventional produce with the lowest level of pesticides, if needed. Check this pocket guide out for more info.
