Quote:you can't tax food by it's health benefit...There would be lawsuits forever about taxing unhealthy foods and not healthy foods


I agree 100% about healthy foods being much more expensive...I'm diabetic and I am supposed to eat a low sodium, low carbohydrate, low sugar high protein, all natural diet...All the stuff I'm supposed to eat is so much more expensive than the regular stuff...I have been asking for years why the so called organic foods cost more and no one has an answer...I would think they should be cheaper...Supposedly there are no fertilizers used, no pest killing sprays, no artificial lighting, so there should be less labor and materials used in producing such foods, therefor. the cost to produce these foods should be less but instead they are higher...People buy into the hype of organic or all natural this or that and they buy it...If people would would being such suckers and paying such high prices for that stuff, the price would come down

Organic products have significantly lower yields because they aren't protected from pests, do not grow with the aid of said fertilizers and actual require more tending because the aid of chemicals isn't used. Therefore they don't grow as well and hence the higher price. Organic is also heavily regulated by the FDA. "All Natural" is a term used to make people think something is organic even though it isn't.

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