Just follow the money. The reason big growers want organic certification is so they can charge more.
Baked Indoctrination
This time of year, approximately speaking, is ripe for investigating... Read more →
I found 32 results for: prices
3 November 2017
2 October 2017
Another round-up of food news,from avocados to Xyllella
6 March 2017
In the wake not only of the podcast here but a lot of other discussion around the interwebz, here are a couple of bits of research that help to untangle the complex relationships between economics and diet.
Did you know that malt whisky owes its existence in the marketplace to the stock market crash of 1973-74?
Neither did I, so when one of the people I interviewed for the craft distilling episode a few weeks back made that claim, I wanted to know more. Unfortunately, if you just plug “scotch whisky economic history” into an online search engine, you don’t find anything of real interest, at least not in the first few thousand hits.
26 September 2016
The past is a a foreign country. And foreign countries are present. London, China, Dalits, First Nations and fake sales figures
19 September 2016
Speculators are responsible for food price spikes? Food price spikes are responsible for riots in the streets? First-world hipsters are responsible for hungry quinoa farmers in Peru? Seeking answers to basic questions.
Quinoa — that darling of the health-conscious western consumer — came in for a lot of flack a few years ago. Skyrocketing prices caused some food activists to claim that the poor quinoa farmers of the high Andean plains in Bolivia and Peru were no longer able to afford their staple food. Every mouthful we […]
12 April 2016
Prices come down, prices go up, ice cream melts, cuisines move, coffee brews.
Life goes on.
17 August 2015
The O-Pipin-Na-Piwin Cree Nation have suffered generations of maltreatment at the hands of various official entities. Moved from their homelands further south, they now occupy small scattered settlements in northern Manitoba, where summers are short and the land infertile. Having adapted to some extent to their new circumstances, large dams, built to supply energy to […]
11 May 2015
Every two weeks I attempt to fill the void between audio episodes with a small selection of things that merited my attention, in the hope that some of them may do the same for you.