Organic Food Prices On the Rise
With the prices of conventionally grown food continuing to rise as time goes on, the prices of organic food is also rising. In some cases, the prices of organic food is now going beyond the reach of the lower and middle class. If the cost for organic food is nearly twice that of conventional products, then many people will just buy what they can afford. Most people buy organic food to ensure they are not receiving potentially carcinogenic toxics in their body from chemical fertilizers, pesticides, and synthetic hormones.
As a single guy, I spend more money on groceries from the price of organics compared to my coworker who feeds an entire family of four with conventional products. Someone who can't afford to buy organic food for an entire family will buy what makes financial sense to them.
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Some farmers are actually switching back to growing conventional foods because the prices of certain crops are so high, there is no need to go through USDA organic certification. This can eventually reduce the amount of selection for organics and cause prices to go up even further.
Due to these economic hard times with inflation and a looming recession, it feels as if a serious problem could arise if the economy doesn't stabilize soon. Simply put, organic food will only be affordable to the wealthy. What kind of world do we live in?
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A controversial new directive from the USDA threatens to deny organic certification to thousands of small organic coffee, tea, banana, rice, sugar cane, cacao and other farmers around the world. The USDA's directive would eliminate the longstanding practice of certifying organic and Fair Trade family farm cooperatives as a group, rather than forcing each coop member to pay for individual certification. Thousands of organic and Fair Trade farming cooperatives around the world have been established over the past few decades to help low-income farmers in financing and marketing, and in acquiring otherwise cost-prohibitive certification for their farms. Most of the world's small-scale organic coffee farmers take part in these cooperatives, so eliminating group certification, will drive thousands of family farmers out of business while giving large-scale commercial coffee plantations a competitive advantage.
