September 10, 2012
By Daniel J. Flynn
Free-ranging chicken McNuggets will keep you healthy and solvent, assuming you widen your appreciation of genuine organic food.
There is no discernible nutritional difference between food from the farmer’s market and food from the supermarket, scientists report. But there is a dramatic price variation, and that status separation was the point all along.
People don’t pay for better-for-you. They pay for better-than-you.
Read it all at: http://spectator.org/archives/2012/09/07/the-whole-foods-hustle
“Organic” – The New Snobbery
The Whole Foods Hustle
By Daniel J. Flynn
Free-ranging chicken McNuggets will keep you healthy and solvent, assuming you widen your appreciation of genuine organic food.
There is no discernible nutritional difference between food from the farmer’s market and food from the supermarket, scientists report. But there is a dramatic price variation, and that status separation was the point all along.
People don’t pay for better-for-you. They pay for better-than-you.
Read it all at: http://spectator.org/archives/2012/09/07/the-whole-foods-hustle