Price

" Whenever I hear people say clean food is expensive, I tell them it's actually the cheapest food you can buy. That always gets their attention. Then I explain that, with our food, all of the costs are figured into the price. Society is not bearing the cost of water pollution, of antibiotic resistance, of food-borne illnesses, of crop subsidies, of subsidized oil and water--of all the hidden costs to the environment and the taxpayer that make cheap food seem cheap. No thinking person will tell you they don't care about all that. I tell them the choice is simple: You can buy honestly priced food or you can buy irresponsibly priced food."- Joel Salatine

Pollan, Michael. The Omnivore's Dilemma: a natural history of four meals.Ney York:Penguin Press, 2006.

Joel Salatin is the owner of Polyface farm in Virginia's Shenendoah Valley. He raises a ha;f dozen different species and practices a completely organic way of farming. He gave this quote in an interview with Michael Pollan, a botanist and leader in the clean food revolution.

Many people use the argument that organic food is too expensive and not worth spending their money on. Here the owner of Polyface farm discounts this argument. Uknowingly Americans are spending their money on processed, government subssidized food. Although you are buying something cheaper from a large, chain grocer you have already spent your tax dollars on the growing of industrial crops to make the processed food. The cost this has on the environment is much higher than if you bought local and organinc. So many people look at orgainic foood as being expensive, when in reality it is what food should cost.