The prices that Americans are beginning to pay for conventionally-grown food are steadily increasing to the cost of what the organic, more healthfully-grown food costs. This seemingly would make going organic an easy decision since the cost would be about the same as eating non-organic products, but this way you would get a much more nutritious, and less harmful, foodstuff instead. Yet, this is an eerily simplistic way of looking at the food shortage, and one that does not really give people struggling to feed their families enough credit.

As organicconsumers.org reports, “nationwide, heightened food and gasoline prices, combined with an economy that’s shedding jobs, are putting a hard squeeze on consumers. According to The New York Times, applications for food stamps have surged recently, and the program is projected to reach 28 million Americans over the next several months, the most since its inception in the 1960s.”

This is something we all need to be very, very careful with. Those who are struggling to put food on the table are not going to find any sort of joy in going to the local farmers market to buy produce that is locally and organically grown -that’s just not the way the world works.