I agree, Bob. I'm a wild food purveyor in NY and there is a big difference in taste, quality and price. Due to the huge interest in clean, local food more people are buying more of the local inventory, in addition to the chef's that have been getting the first picks from local farms for years now, there has been a supply squeeze for the individual.

-Nick

On Thursday, May 15, 2014 3:47:30 PM UTC-4, notbob wrote:
> That's twice, now, I've gone down to the mkt and found they are sold
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> out of a certain organic food. Last week it was organic chicken
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> breasts and today it was grass fed hamburger. Yes, it cost much more,
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> but it's flying off the shelves. The meat mgr sez they can't get it
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> fast enough. Which is a surprise, as they didn't even carry grass fed
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> beef 6 mos ago. Safeway is now carrying grass fed rib-eyes. Gotta
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> try those. Also, I'm seeing organic produce dropping in price and
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> getting to be only a tad more than the tasteless agribiz bunk.
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> Give organic a try. Not always better, but more often than not, it
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> has flavor you've not tasted in yrs, regardless of how sad it may
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> look. I jes bought some organic cabbage. Small and ugly heads, but
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> I'm hoping it doesn't have the horrid chemical taste that last head of
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> agribunk cabbage I steamed. I tossed it all. Yuk.
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> nb