Cost of healthy foods?!


Question: Why is it that health food (all natural ingredients - like how they used to make it) is so expensive??? Why do the food companies have to charge us MORE just to take OUT all the preservatives, artificial colors, trans fats, etc. (basically to take out all the stuff that should never have even entered into our food supply)??? It makes no sense to me....


Answers: Why is it that health food (all natural ingredients - like how they used to make it) is so expensive??? Why do the food companies have to charge us MORE just to take OUT all the preservatives, artificial colors, trans fats, etc. (basically to take out all the stuff that should never have even entered into our food supply)??? It makes no sense to me....

Well the company loses money when their products go bad faster because they don't contain preservatives so that cost is figured into the price. When farms don't use chemicals to make their fruits and vegetables bigger or grow more, they get less pounds per acre so each pound they must charge a little more to make the same amount of money. When animals are not given hormones to "overproduce" milk or eggs or grow bigger to produce more meat, then they must charge more to make up for what they consider lost money. And still they have the costs,per acre, ect. to farm. I love organic produce,meat, eggs, milk ect. But it does get expensive so I buy organic milk, I save buy buying"natural" products instead of all out organic. There is also added costs to the farmers and ranchers for going organic in the terms of bookeeping/paperwork/forms/inspections that they must keep up with to have the lable organic. So, I buy fresh fruits and vegetables, organic when the cost isn't much more. I try not to buy much processed packaged food. I do buy only organic milk though. I just try and reduce the amount of additives, frozen vegetables and fruit are a good buy, keep longer and usually don't have alot of preservatives and chemicals.

Well, it is not true that healthy food is expensive. The best way to deal with this issue. Simply go naturally for more fruits and vegetables and minimise on "processed" health food. i.e. human interventions to add preservatives, artificial colours, fats extraction etc.

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