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> I don't understand your second point. When I go to the grocery, food is available to me at any time of year. Your friend's apples are only available for ~2
by vkou 11mo ago
> I don't understand your second point.
When I go to the grocery, food is available to me at any time of year.
Your friend's apples are only available for ~2 months/of the year. The supply chains that feed the world have to work year-round, and all the people that work them expect to get paid. Availability adds to the cost.
> What I know for sure is that apples in the 50s had at least an order of magnitude more calories than apples today
I have a very hard time believing that the average apple from the 50s had 94 * 10 = 940 calories.
- pil0u 11mo agoThat's the whole point: don't eat apples from January to December.
- vkou 11mo agoWhich is the whole problem. Your friend's apple orchard is not a replacement for the modern grocery. It's a seasonal supplement that replaces the cheapest and easiest part of a diet - in-season produce. And he has to work insanely hard all-year-long to do it.