May 20 2000 / Montreal Gazette / Letter
Alfred Bacher of Saint-Lambert writes that it's still a minority, but a noisy one, who demands and demonstrates that all food be genetically pure.
Everything should be organic as nature created it. Well, they may be dreaming.
Bacher says that he and his wife shop for food together, each picking up different items; it speeds up shopping.
One of the items he picked up recently was half a pound of unsalted butter which sells at around $2.50. Next to it was the identical half-pound package of "organic" butter. The price: $6.09.
Butter is just one of the small food items a family needs. But since virtually all types of food might be genetically altered, and since the price difference with butter could be an indication of the cost of so-called pure food, he doubts that most families would manage to feed themselves properly.
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