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Animals avoid GM food
On 20 Aug 2003 01:46:55 GMT, Brian Sandle
posted: Jim Webster wrote: "Brian Sandle" wrote in message ... Jim Webster wrote: is a very small niche market A lot of farmers converted around 1999 to organic milk, and were by 2001 able to call their milk organic and get a higher price. Suddenly there was a lot more on the market. But they were asking more for it than imported organic milk in the shops. The disributors sold excess as non-organic, presumably to try to keep organic label prices up. No, they sold it as conventional because no one was willing to pay organic price for it, not enough people actually want the damned stuff There is a bit of a problem with milk because a lot of health-conscious people think milk is designed for young cows, not adult humans. Yes, I've heard this too. No reasons given, though. Besides what is `organic price'? After conversion what proportion of costs is subsidy, compared to non-organic? What rake off is going to distributors? Whatever they can get away with. That's the "free market". Do you not think that bringing organic into the picture has saved jobs for a few dairy farmers, as well as given more wealth to some distributors? I see jobs rather than profit as the key in the future. At the cost of scamming the public? |
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