How expensive is organic food in your country?

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Hi guys,I've tried to search for organic food suppliers and stores in Moscow, and I found them. However, the prices there are just inhumane! I've heard organic food is more expensive, so I did expect it to be more expensive. I was psychologically ready to pay. But what I saw was a little too much in my opinion.For example,10 eggs cost about 0.75 to 1.25 €.10 organic eggs cost 4.75 €.1 L cow milk costs 1 to 1.5 €.1 L organic cow milk is 3 €.1 kg beef cost 10 €.1 kg organic beef of the same kind is 32.5 €.I've realized we just cannot afford eating organic food every day. It can only be an occasional "delicacy", which is obviously not enough to maintain good health.Are the prices as high in your country/city, and I'm just over-reacting? I imagined the people who care about other people's health would sell something a little more available to everyone.P.S. What's also upsetting is that there's always a chance you'll buy the same stuff you can find in a supermarket, but you'll buy it for an enormous price. I don't know if this is the case in other countries but this is how it can be in Russia.

AlpheccaStars · Accepted Answer

In the US, prices for organic produce used to be double or triple that of the ordinary variety.
However, the gap has narrowed considerably over the past decade. So you pay more now, but not even close to double. It is a simple matter of supply and demand. The difference now is down to the extra production cost for fields free of pesticides and chemical fertilizers.

I often get organic tomatoes because they are so much more tasty and worth the extra cost.

The price of organically grown meat is comparable to Kosher or Halal meat.

Audray · Answer

I would go to the countryside (maybe there is more of that and costs less ) to buy that food if I wanted it, but I don't want it at all, on the contrary. I tried many times to grow different plants of this kind and it is very difficult to keep them healthy. They were continuously attacked by insects and by many other ' things ' and in the end I gave up. Only the brave rosemary stayed with me ... and, of course, I love it and...use it almost every day. It doesn't need anything.
Maybe that's why organic food has those incredible prices. You plan to produce 50 kilos of tomatoes for example and all that you get is 5 kilos.
Here prices for organic food are very high too. I never buy them. The problem is that most of the time organic food looks worse than conventional food and has a higher price. Moreover someone as I remember had some health problems.
It doesn't matter what kind of tomatoes are used for my pizza since I don't eat it in Naples

Cheerio!

Ruslana · Answer

Aaahh organic tomatoes! My dream. I know what they taste like because we used to grow them in our garden when I was a kid. Since then I just CAN'T eat ordinary tomatoes from a store, I buy them seldom if ever. I just gave up finding tasty ones /sigh/. If their price was not three or four times higher, I'd definitely pay for that. I really hope the prices here go down too, sooner or later.

Audray, of course growing your own fruits and veggies takes time and effort, but it's worth it SO much. We, city dwellers, have lost the knowledge about natural ways to get rid of pests, and that's why dealing with them feels so difficult. Natural pest control can also take more time. For example, the Colorado potato beetle. When I was a kid, we used to grow potatoes in a village we spent every summer in. We NEVER used pesticides to get rid of them. We gathered them manually every few days. That's a **** of an amount of work to do but you'll never regret it once you taste those potatoes. Besides pests, productivity depends on the fertileness of the soil you plant the stuff in, and there are many ways to improve it naturally, without chemicals. Sometimes I wish I could just live somewhere in the countryside, have my own cow or goat for milk, chickens for eggs, raise veggies, fruits and berries, and eat all that throughout the year. I'd have no time for the internet then, though.

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