vue - Why is organic food so *#@! expensive?? | Ali Partovi | TEDxManhattan
Ali Partovi serves on the board of FoodCorps, a non-profit that deploys volunteers to improve food sourcing & education in schools. He is a passionate advocate of sustainable food systems, and has invested in ventures like BrightFarms and Farmigo, as well as real estate fund Farmland LP to scale more resource-efficient farming techniques. Ali Partovi has been described by the San Jose Mercury News as one of “Silicon Valley’s top angel investors,” having been on the ground floor of both Facebook and Dropbox. Shortly after graduating from Harvard, he co-founded LinkExchange (acquired by Microsoft for $265mm). Partovi later co-founded iLike (acquired by MySpace). Partovi’s investments have also included: Zappos, OPOWER, Thumbtack, and Airbnb. Ali co-founded non-profit Code.org, which promotes Computer Science education and hosts the worldwide “Hour of Code.” This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx
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So organic food it's not expensive to grow to contrast believe of many. It is the cost of transport and availability???? What about equal dispensing and equal set prices. I live in Chicago and I never see ORGANIC label produce in street corner grocery stop stores...WHY?
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If you claim you can't tell the difference in organic and non organic, Eat nothing but organic for a month and see if you can handle the shitty processed garbage. You're just pickling yourself with lower grade good.
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I'm a dedicated sustainable food home grower and local, organic and beyond shopper on 75% of minimum wage. It can be done. It does require meal planning to combat my food waste, looooots of homecooking, local, regional an/or seasonal eating, reducing meat consumption to mere flavoring quantities and adding lots of vegan dishes, getting off of highly processed foods and getting off my own butt to actually grow part of my own demand. (now, there will be a slew of reactions yelling "I could never do one of these things you just mentioned so, ohh em gee, forget it!" So, how about 50 or 75% organic or local?)
You can not keep repeating myths if you have never made the full 100% effort to actually try it. I have and i have no myths left now even my beer is organic. It's all complete BS and i used to think exactly like that. Sure, there are still a lot of soil health and logistical problems in socalled sustainable farming but that doesn't mean it isn't at least better. ("It's not perfect so i'm not doing it!" BS, it looks like people are just busy to find any excuse not to do a thing.)
It's not the fault of producers because they are begging us all the time to please, please tell them what you as a consumer desperately want. There is one single thing that all producers dread like nothing else, losing customers. Just look at all the sites where you can test products for free and leave reviews. They're groveling at our heels, man! My sis is into that stuff. Bless her. I don't feel i'm in a food war with her. Her perception of what good products are, is different. Imagine what would happen if her reviews contained this line "... I think this is a great product but i wish it contained more sustainable ingredients." The potential of this is mindboggling.
What the world apparently wants, is ultra processed, rock bottom cheap, easy and that is exactly what they produce. They produce happy customers but unfortunately, the price is payed by the environment and it will take a long time before people come around and actually face the fact, it's us who do the damage. You can deny this all you want, but that doesn't lessen the problem or make it go away. It's childish. We have to become an adult species now. One baby step at a time, people. Come on.
Yes, i am in fact super pedantic. Glad you noticed. It's an absolutely vital trait to me as i mainly use it to better my own behaviour. My change came by beating myself up and taking advice from people who already were where i wanted to be. It took me 3-5 years to get where i am and figure this all out. I mean to share. Much love. -
Does anyone find it odd that most 100+ year old people currently living aren't on special organic, vegan or vegetarian diets. Just saying😕
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great talk, Ali ! 👏
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Not sure he should be bragging about how much more acreage it takes for organic... that is part of the problem
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Organic food is a rip off. I can't buy the organics because it never lasts more that a few days and refuse to pay the redic prices. I don't see any diff in org or reg. except the$$$. who is watching the farmers because most growers are still using chemicals. At the store i have seen the owner put organic stickers on reg fruit and charge more. I have seen organic hay growing and they are using chemicals to have a greater yield and charge up to $20 per bale. everybody thinks organics are going to help your heath- ha. eat well suckers. hey, i don't see a high demand for this junk. look at all stores, ea day they throw away tons of organics because they don't sell or last.
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one word why MONSANTO
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This speaker is so full of shit my entire family farms and would out produce any organic farmer.
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I really like your TED talk and would love to show it to my students. However, because of the title I can't show it in my class with students. Just thought I would throw that out there.
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Good speech- but he didn't address the high certification and labeling FEES that organic farmers pay. That's a main reason why organic prices are higher.
But, even if organic is more expensive initially, its still less costly when ALL factors are considered, like disease linked to diet and the resulting time spent in doctor offices for meds and treatment plus personal pain/suffering. Organic is how all food used to be before conventional farming started in the 1940's. Joel Salatin does a great job outlining the history of farming in, "Folks, This Ain't Normal!". -
no doubt vegan life is healthy... but vegan life is also expensive as fuck ;_; .. body and brains need too much of proteins, iron, zinc, omega 3 fatty acid.
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Well, this was funny little fairy tale to listen to.
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its a lot more simple.. only 10 % of farms are organic and not all of them are true organic because the way the usda sets up the rules... if 90% of farms were organic then prices would fall.. its not going to happen if the public dont demand it.. by the way most of the organic in stores is not organic because the usda dont want to stop the factory farms...
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This comment has been grown organically.
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If it isn't more expensive to produce, why don't the producers drop the price?
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How is organic food for the one percent? There's organic food in every grocery store...there's this weird habit of referring to rich people as the one percent. The one percent wouldn't even be shopping in your grocery store.
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But still, because of demand "they" price gouge the consumers, taking advantage of us, then pricing us out of affordability.
There was a time when the USA produced mega tons of non-gmo healthy wheat and was still able to feed the North America, Western Asia(former USSR), and other countries.
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