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Old 12-05-08, 11:01 PM   #11652 (permalink)
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At the commodity or wholesale level, yeah. But at the retail level, the markup on meat is very high, the markup on organic meat is astronomical. And people will pay it.

But hell, it's a been shown that people will pay more for poultry that has "Hormone and Antibiotic free" printed on the package. It's kinda stupid, because the FDA bans hormones and antibiotics for ALL poultry in the US.
Meat is also the most common food item shoplifted in grocery stores.

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