{"id":403531,"date":"2010-03-08T07:38:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T12:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7655103.post-1793434886474139658"},"modified":"2010-03-08T07:38:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T12:38:00","slug":"organic-goods-going-extinct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/403531","title":{"rendered":"Organic Goods Going Extinct"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_OR8dKL3XDN8\/S5R3NiV5xTI\/AAAAAAAAFMM\/SVrzUu3ON7M\/s1600-h\/organiocjoe.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 258px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_OR8dKL3XDN8\/S5R3NiV5xTI\/AAAAAAAAFMM\/SVrzUu3ON7M\/s320\/organiocjoe.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446108923838448946\" \/><\/a>Normally I wouldn&#8217;t have posted this story, but one of the Freepers had it filed under &#8220;Lib Suicide Watch.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;Some 450,000 pounds of organic coffee sit in a warehouse here, stacked neatly in 132-pound bags. It&#8217;s some of the world&#8217;s best coffee, but Gerardo De Leon can&#8217;t sell it, &#8220;The roasters don&#8217;t want to pay extra these days.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>De Leon is asking $2 per pound for the unroasted coffee, about 50 cents more than the going price. But he says he&#8217;ll soon have to sell it as conventionally grown coffee, which sells for less.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why many Mesoamerican farmers here are starting to give up on organic coffee: The premium price that it used to fetch is disappearing.&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/businesstechnology\/2011109993_organicoffee07.html\">source<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Aside from not wanting to pay top dollar, maybe people have actually read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE56S3ZJ20090729\">studies about organic food being no healthier<\/a> than regular produce, etc.  <\/p>\n<p>That being said, I am a huge advocate of growing your own food (the only way to know it&#8217;s truly organic anyway).<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7655103-1793434886474139658?l=mobyrebuttal.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Normally I wouldn&#8217;t have posted this story, but one of the Freepers had it filed under &#8220;Lib Suicide Watch.&#8221; &#8220;&#8230;Some 450,000 pounds of organic coffee sit in a warehouse here, stacked neatly in 132-pound bags. It&#8217;s some of the world&#8217;s best coffee, but Gerardo De Leon can&#8217;t sell it, &#8220;The roasters don&#8217;t want to pay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-403531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}