Organic and gluten free foods are huge money makers for grocery stores as customers will pay any price for these items without complaint. The rest of us count our nickles on every food purchase, but the natural food fanatic will gladly shell out $5 for a gallon of “organic” milk, $4 for a dozen “organic eggs” or $3 for organic mac & cheese in a recycled cardboard box.
I don;t begrudge anyone making money off selling snake oil to a bunch of stupid yuppee wannabes who fancy themselves as commies of some sort. God has a sense of humor!
The “gluten free” craze may be the most annoying. Fruit is now advertised as “gluten free”. The vast majority of people that avoid gluten, don’t even know what it is. Most Americans are foolish sheep.
I’ve seen “recycled” toilet paper in stores with an environmentally-friendly green label. It’s a dingy brown color lest you thought they might have used any dyes to make the paper look white. I’ll bet it’s a big seller at Whole Foods where envirodupes go to shop. No thanks. Plain white affordable rolls qoek just fine for me - at least until the enviros mandate wiping our butts with palm leaves or mandating bidets.
BTW, I see folks leave HEB with cloth grocery bags with the Whole Foods logo on them to con their neighbors into thinking they are trendy envirodupes when they are unloading their hybrids.
I was at Sprouts which is like Whole Foods or Trader Joes.
They had cashews that were broken at $6.99/lb and whole ones at $7.99/lb and “organic” ones at $11.99/lb
I went to Super King and bought my whole ones unsalted at $5.99/lb I do not know if they were organic....