Sentences with phrase «conventional food prices»

Also keep in mind that the more that we all band together and make smart choices at the grocery store in buying organic, the more that companies will respond to that demand, and prices will naturally go down over time, and become very close to conventional food prices.

Compare what are unsustainably low conventional food prices — like the $ 1 per litre milk — which are destroying more than just farming families.

Not exact matches

Dr Andrew Monk from Australian Organic says there are many reasons why there is a difference between organic and conventional prices and like many food supply chains just a fraction of the retail price is passed onto farmers.

For one, the price of conventional food is artificially lowered by production - oriented subsidies drawn from taxpayer money.

Also, negative externalities caused by conventional farming are not accounted for in the price of food.

If prices for conventional food products internalised costs and thus represented reality, organic products would be cheaper.

As the price of food goes higher and higher and we worry more and more about where our food comes from, organic vs. conventional (pesticide - laden), genetically - modified organisms, carbon emissions and climate change, it makes sense to me to try to grow some of our own food.

Unfortunately, that's a whole dollar more per ten than this organic baby food sale Safeway ran about six months ago, when organic baby food was priced at a just a penny more than conventional baby food!

While organic baby food is still more costly than conventional food, the price difference is not as great as one might expect.

Sitting right down the shelf from the O Organics is conventional Gerber baby food, priced at 59 cents per jar.

Prices for organic beauty products and foods reflect many of the same costs as conventional items in terms of growing, harvesting, transportation and storage.

Instead of comparing the price of organic food with «conventional» foods, what we should use for an apples to apples comparison is the cost of sustainably grown, organic food prices vs. the food price of US tax payer subsidized, toxic food, which is what «conventional» food actually is.

As for the host of degenerative diseases that now plague the «civilized» world, diseases for which countless remedies both conventional and holistic have been proposed, Price's findings point to only one lasting solution: nutrient - dense food.

If you are price conscious, conventional produce is fine and a much better option than filling your grocery cart with chips, crackers, soda pop and other junk foods.

Current prices for conventionally grown foods do not reflect the costs of federal subsidies to conventional agriculture, the cost of contaminated drinking water, loss of wildlife habitat and soil erosion, or the cost of the disposal and clean up of hazardous wastes generated by the manufacturing of pesticides.

In our food choices, we seem to have traded the safety of our long - term health for lower prices and convenience, though this cost incentive is actually an illusion, given the medical bills and medications a diet of processed and conventional foods will eventually generate.

Naysayers also claim that turning over farmland to energy crops will crowd out conventional crops, sending the price of food and animal feed soaring.

In the end, to achieve sustainable food security we will probably need many different techniques — including organic, conventional, and possible «hybrid» systems — to produce more food at affordable prices, ensure livelihoods for farmers, and reduce the environmental costs of agriculture....

(09/13/2012) The European Union may cap the use of crop - based biofuels over fears they can drive up food prices and aren't effective in reducing greenhouse gas emissions relative to conventional fuels, reports Reuters.

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Conventional biofuels accounted for as much as 15 percent of food - price inflation from 2007 to 2008, the U.S. Congressional Budget Office said April 8.