Keeping Monsanto and Dow out of our food is just not affordable at this point. Trying to provide this for at least our daughter. Pretty hard to justify doing so when there are such discrepancies in comparable product volumes. Have a look at this:
I know what the right choice is for Hazel, but I still feel like a sucker when making that choice.
We are all used to product volumes shrinking instead of the supplier raising the price or raising prices and decreasing volumes. We just shake our heads and dig deeper into the lint. We are used to getting ripped off by normal companies but I dislike it even more when it is coming from a company that supposedly has an interest in the betterment of humanity/earth/food supply. I call BS.
If organic growers and suppliers ever want to take over the marketplace they are going to have to provide a more viable reasons to do so:
- prices more competitive to non-organic
- matching volumes of comparable, non-organic products
Until then, prepare to continue to be marginalized and fringe, “Granola” Suits and Marketing Drones. Hasn’t it been proven that organic doesn’t cost more for the farmer and that is one of the reasons it makes more sense for farmers to switch? Why is it costing more at the market?
Product volumes shrinking instead of the supplier raising the price or raising prices and decreasing volumes is not an effort by the vendor as an attempt to rip you off. It is a function of a inflation/aka the dollar using its value.
Inflation is more than just higher prices, it is
-Smaller sizes, volumes and portions
-Substitution of lower cost and quality ingredients
-Poor service due to cutbacks in personnel
-Fees, fees, fees
Inflation is more than higher prices, it is also a lower quantity and quality of goods and services for the same price, lower quality services, and new fees.
What is causing inflation? The falling dollar. The weakening dollar is creating cost-push inflation.
By default, an organic producer is selling high quality ingredients that can not be easily substituted. Therefore, they can not use substution as a method to lower input costs. This only leaves them the ability to reduce product volume and/or raise prices.
Read The 5 Signs of Inflation by iTulip:
http://www.itulip.com/forums/showthread.php?p=34140#post34140
I think your anger is misplaced. The organic and non-organic producers are simply trying to maintain their margins with ever rising input prices (cost-push inflation) so that they can be a viable ongoing business that does not go bankrupt. Your real anger should be at the financial mismanagement of the US dollar that results in ever increasing prices for essiential goods and services that can not be labor arbatraged through outsourcing (education, food, energy, healthcare, etc).
What about how promoters of organic farms say it doesn’t cost more for farmers to switch to organic? What you are talking about is part of the problem for sure, but these goods would be more expensive even if inflation were not out of control. These items are treated, priced, and marketed as luxury items. Until that changes, the majority of us are going to continue to eat and drink Monsanto. There has GOT to be an organic food company who is going to “get it”, reduce its profit margins and go toe to toe with the non-organic producers and therefore undercut all the luxury item organic producers.
Do some research.
http://www.howtogoorganic.com/index.php?page=economics
This is the kind of info I was looking for. Thanks!