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Yet somehow I just paid $7 for a gallon of Clover “organic” 2% milk yesterday at the Mountain View Safeway. That is insane expensive. Who exactly is getting tha
by briandear 8y ago
Yet somehow I just paid $7 for a gallon of Clover “organic” 2% milk yesterday at the Mountain View Safeway. That is insane expensive. Who exactly is getting that money? It seems like $7 per gallon retail ought to be enough to keep some small farmers in business. Organic milk costs almost double the price of jet fuel. I feel like someone is getting screwed.
- waffle_ss 8y agoSadly, organic has been hijacked by the large industrial farms as well.[1] > Who exactly is getting that money? The USDA keeps track of those statistics.[2] As of 2017 about 30% of the cost of a gallon of milk goes to farms. Unfortunately milk prices are so low that only the very largest farms, that can squeeze efficiencies out of operating at scale, can make that profitable.[3] [1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/why-your-organic-milk-may-not-be-organic/2017/05/01/708ce5bc-ed76-11e6-9662-6eedf1627882_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/why-your-org... [2]: https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/price-spreads-from-farm-to-consumer/ https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/price-spreads-from-fa... [3]: https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/milk-cost-of-production-estimates/ https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/milk-cost-of-producti...