At least for Whole Foods, it's partly for the same reason Starbucks is so much more expensive than generic coffee: people are willing to pay a premium price to associate with they perceive to be a trendy or premium brand. You're also buying produce that probably wasn't grown locally, even if it is in season. Get out of the bug hive and go to a suburban or rural farm market, and you'll see that locally grown, seasonal produce is like significantly cheaper than what you'll find at Whole Foods.
I guess some places don't have good enough environments to grow certain foods so sacrifices had to be made to ship them internationally. Unless someone can innovate make an ideal environment to grow these foods in these areas, they end up more expensive and lower quality. Especially in Iqaluit where it's brutal cold climate makes it impossible to grow almost anything.
I cook every night and have a freezer full of meat. The only thing I really need to shop for every week is produce which I buy from a local farmers market that has produce from a local farm. The produce is significantly more expensive than at the grocery store but I'm getting shit that is much better quality, locally grown, and wasn't picked 2 weeks before it was ripe to account for shipping.
You're talking about monosodium glutamate?
Here "locally grown, seasonal produce" is just as expensive as Whole Foods because it's marketed toward yuppies and is small scale or excess from larger growers that's being resold. There have been at least two scandals at the place near me where someone was just reselling from bulk suppliers and pretending to be a farmer. Most grocery stores source produce locally first before looking elsewhere so a lot of farmers market shopping to support local farmers is moot.
Yeah, I was probably oversimplifying. My town has two weekly farmer's markets and two farms with farm markets. The farmer's markets are just hipsters reselling grocery store produce with a 10% markup, they're completely worthless. One of the farms has been taken over by yuppies and hipsters. It's always crowded with dipshits taking selfies, to the point that they had to hire people to direct traffic. They started selling bananas and other shit you can't grow here, and their prices are worse than the grocery store, even for the shit they grow on their own farm. The other farm doesn't look as good on Instagram, so it's managed to avoid the yuppie crowd. It has better prices and better quality than the grocery store, but a fairly narrow selection, because they only sell what they grow there. So basically markets with natural food are more expensive because of hipsters and yuppies with more money than sense.
That's a bit disingenuous. What humans have been doing for thousands of years is selective breeding which uses the genes naturally found in that species and fixating them for the results they want. Genetic modification however let's you use genes that will never be found in that species and insert it into that species. However, I'm not aware of any negative sides to GMO's other than some instances of it leading to excessive spraying of pesticides. Which leads to issues of pesticide runoff, pesticide retention in the plants, and possible resistance in pests developing.
That is great to hear, and I wish you the best of health.
I noticed the damaging consequences of the sin of Sloth. Accepting convenience is a temptation itself under a false utopia and leads to unruly results. I am focusing on tackling the composition in my brain that leads to unusual stigmas. I am convinced this will destroy what's been crippling me. With very little in the way, I can pursue a more ideal lifestyle and regain the attributes of my ancestors.
You're a weird one. I'm far too boring to formulate a decent response to your esoterica above
And people don't want to buy collards and leftover sweet potatoes that don't meet size requirements. There are goat's milk soap makers, but its almost $10/bar(Though to be fair, find me a store brand of moisturizing body soap that doesn't donate money to political movements that hate you). There are hipster lesbian mushroom growers who operate out of an old cotton mill here as well. There aren't really any old men who actually have farms coming there anymore. You just see them on the side of the road near their farms.
Bread shouldn’t last weeks. Bread lasts weeks in the states??? Fresh white bread lasts a day. Fresh brown a day or two of wrapped. Cheap nasty but yummy toasted warburtons sliced lasts a few days. Are you guys soaking it in formaldehyde or something? I’m now sad you’ve never had real bread. Please bake some
Depends.
Almost all commercially produced bread in the states is loaded with sugar and preservatives. I'm not just talking about the cheap white shit (wonderbread?) that has enough sugar to give a man instant diabetes; it's all got sugar. Their recipes all have sugar. The only recipes that don't seem to consistently have sugar in them are for sourdough.
