Um, no. Depends on your business model. Machines, fuel and land aren't cheap either.Quote by: tman_ndsu08
Um, no. Depends on your business model. Machines, fuel and land aren't cheap either.
Yes they are. Go to any grocery store and compare organic to non organic.
I might try that if it was relevent to the conversation (besides I grow my own organic vegetables for free).
It is the argument.I might try that if it was relevent to the conversation (besides I grow my own organic vegetables for free).
Schools aren't going to be growing their own food. The money it would cost to pay people to not only prepare it but to cultivate it and harvast it would be more than if they bought it harvested.
Let me guess, you aren't a business management or economics major? It is NOT the argument. You don't seem to know WHAT you are arguing. (and by the way, many elementary schools all over the country are growing their own food. The kids take a class where they learn how to grow and harvest).
The argument is that schools can't afford to serve organic food when the demand for it is so low.
So the schools are forcing the kids to harvast their own food?!
It's a good thing the US has child labor laws.
Not at all. Read the thread. And organic food is cheaper in the long run. Toxic runoff costs BILLIONS. Demand for food is low? Crazy....The argument is that schools can't afford to serve organic food when the demand for it is so low.
Not at all. Kids parents are signing them up for the classes that teach them these skills (and also provide healthy food for healthy school lunches)So the schools are forcing the kids to harvast their own food?!
Nothing to do with the thread but I agree...It's a good thing the US has child labor laws.
I'm not arguing about the topic of the thread, just with Mia's response about school lunches.Not at all. Read the thread. And organic food is cheaper in the long run. Toxic runoff costs BILLIONS. Demand for food is low? Crazy....
Not at all. Kids parents are signing them up for the classes that teach them these skills (and also provide healthy food for healthy school lunches)
Nothing to do with the thread but I agree...
In short run, medium run, and long run, processed food is cheaper.
There is very low demand for organic food in school lunchrooms. Probably because it tastes like cardboard.
A parant signing his/her child up doesn't justify child labor.
Last edited by tman_ndsu08; 30th March 2005 at 02:40 PM.
Maybe you should go back read that as well. Your still wrong.I'm not arguing about the topic of the thread, just with Mia's response about school lunches.
Like I said, not neccessarily the case. Got info to back this up or do you just assume this?In short run, medium run, and long run, processed food is cheaper
You have to take it out of the box before you eat it.Probably because it tastes like cardboard.
Maybe you should go back read that as well. Your still wrong.
Like I said, not neccessarily the case. Got info to back this up or do you just assume this?
You have to take it out of the box before you eat it.That's her quote.Kids don't have to have their 'demands' met. The school board, visa-vi the parents, decide what food to serve. In the show, one school for troubled children switched to fresh-made, healthy foods, and got rid of all soda and snack machines. The processed food companies were not happy, but the school found it didn't cost any more, and they even had less disclipline problems after the switch.
Do you have any info to back up your claims that it is cheaper?
Can you point out where she mentions "organic food"?
Right. Someone mentioned that in the show we were discussing, it was organinic food that the school had switched to. I didn't hear them say that. I just heard 'fresh' as opposed to 'processed'. Organic is another category alltogether.
I know that the organic grocery store is more expensive than the regular one, and that regular food in the grocery store is cheaper than processed. It stands to reason that regualar, fresh food is cheaper, or at least not more expensive, than processed food. Especialy bought and made in bulk. I don't have information to agree or disagree that organic food can also be inexpensive, but that was not what we were discussing.
As far as the labor to prepare fresh meals, that is evened out by the lesser cost in food.
I am not in the food industry, I haven't consulted any reasearch on this, it is just common sense that anyone can see in their own lives feeding themselves and their families.
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