That Chicken From Whole Foods Isn’t So Special Any More

Everyone Is Copying Whole Foods Now (Bloomberg.com)

Big poultry and meat producers have absorbed many of the organic grocer’s practices—and become its suppliers.

If this article has any impact, I would like to know whether sales fall at Whole Foods or rise elsewhere. Probably neither.

Australia: where healthier diets are cheaper … ... but people spend more to eat badly

Australians devote almost 60 cents of every dollar they spend on food to unhealthy stuff. They could eat better for less money, but “affordable luxuries” get in the way.

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How much does a nutritious diet cost? Depends what you mean by "nutritious"

You can eat a perfectly nutritious diet for a lot less money than the US government says you need. But would you want to?

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A far from dismal scientist In conversation with Marc Bellemare, agricultural economist

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.

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