Originally Posted by quiltmaker
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Why are organic foods more expensive when they take less money to produce? We all have to be so proactive in our choices these days...as it's almost a full time job to purchase safe meat and other things we eat on a daily basis.
It is NOT less expensive to produce organics--yields are often lower, there are more culls due to bug damage, etc. and MUCH more hand labor for fruits and veggies. We used to market garden 2 A. and we worked our fannies off----